Hi Steve! I'm sorry that it took me so much time to moderate your email. It's just that I had an email outage here. Now on to your question. ... Well,...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 1, 2009 4:11 pm
... And you can also look at the final report of this Freecell Solver project: http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org/freecell/ It is written in Common Lisp...
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Steve
newtton
Jan 14, 2009 7:34 am
Thanks for the references. The ones I found most helpful were: 1) Kevin Atkinson's report on his Freecell project for an AI course. 2) the summary of your...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 17, 2009 4:16 pm
... OK. ... From my experience BrFS is impractical for most initial Freecell boards, even if we reduce the amount of memory. Did this article use intermediate...
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Steve
newtton
Jan 19, 2009 2:58 am
... boards, even ... deals? ... I don't think so. Their test suite included several kinds of problems as well as two freecell deals -- perhaps they were fairly...
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Steve
newtton
Jan 19, 2009 3:10 am
As I expore the logic of this game in detail it gets fascinating, but I would like to get the terminology straight in order to avoid mixups when communicating....
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Adam Monsen
surfachump
Jan 19, 2009 8:39 pm
I've been playing Baker's Game in Sol Free on the iPhone. I recently found fc-solve and was amazed by the comprehensive approach to finding solutions. Wow!...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 20, 2009 11:54 am
Hi Mr. Monsen! Thanks for your email - see below for my response. ... Thanks! ... Do you imply that what Sol Free calls "Baker's Game" is different from the ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 20, 2009 1:44 pm
... You probably mean the Wikipedia Freecell page. You shouldn't call "the Wikipedia" "the Wiki" because there are many other wikis around, because of the...
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Adam Monsen
surfachump
Jan 21, 2009 3:38 pm
... Thank you! Your entire response makes perfect sense. :) -- Adam Monsen...
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larrysan45
Jan 22, 2009 2:16 pm
Following up on your discussion of parameters, when I set the following --freecells-num 0 --empty-stacks-filled-by kings --sequence- move unlimited and entered...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Jan 22, 2009 4:42 pm
My solver got the following 48 step solution to your layout. Is there a standard game nuimber associated with this layout? My solver and how to input layouts...
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larrysan45
Jan 24, 2009 3:38 pm
Gary, Thanks for your response, However, your solution is for the standard four freecell parameter. Can your solver be set for zero freecells ( along with my...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Jan 24, 2009 6:26 pm
The currently released version of my solver does not solve for other than 4 free cells. I'm not sure what your parameter settings achieve, but mine has some...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 24, 2009 9:22 pm
Hi Larry! Sorry for the late response. ... Yes, I found it's the case in the trunk version of Freecell Solver as well. After investigating, I found the problem...
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larrysan45
Jan 25, 2009 4:31 pm
Shlomi, Excellent work !! I have used the parallel-range solver and come up with the following results. Approximate solving rate for zero freecell scenarios: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 25, 2009 6:34 pm
Hi all! There's a new stable version of Freecell Solver: http://fc-solve.berlios.de/#news-2009-01-25 The changes from the last release reading from the NEWS...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 28, 2009 3:27 pm
See: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01/january-column-graph-algorithm.html for an article written as part of a monthly column of articles about the book ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 31, 2009 1:40 pm
... I should note that in order to solve larrysan's use case, one also would need to implement the unlimited sequence move (so one can move a sequence of cards...
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Jack Spade
buythenet
Mar 5, 2009 7:06 pm
French software and Dutch national Supercomputer Huygens establish a new world record in Go 25 February 2009 A new world record in Go established by PRACE...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 6, 2009 6:33 am
Hi all! I filed a bug to update the Freecell Solver packages in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518440 ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 6, 2009 6:39 am
A bit late, but better late than never: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/optimizing-code-for-speed/ This is an essay I wrote about optimising...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 6, 2009 6:43 am
... Thanks. ... Well, it's a bit hard to understand and follow the results below. I think an organised HTML table with them would be preferable. I can try to...
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larrysan45
Mar 6, 2009 2:13 pm
... Here are my updated results for the various zero-freeccell scenarios: SEQUENCES-ARE-BUILT-BY RANK: sequence-move limited: empty-stacks-filled-by kings =...
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Jack Spade
buythenet
Mar 8, 2009 5:16 pm
I have two different FC solvers on two different computers. One says Version 6.5 Build 11. What I would like to see on each one is the ability to see...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Mar 8, 2009 7:28 pm
Hey Everybody: You might want to check out this FreeCell Autoplayer. It has (perhaps?) the best built-in solver you can get your hands on. You can go directly...
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Jack Spade
buythenet
Mar 8, 2009 7:51 pm
Thanks, that is much better. Jack...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 8, 2009 10:06 pm
... Well, you'll have to tell us which "solvers" they are. The most recent Freecell Solver release is up to version 2.14.0 and Patsolve is 2.2.0 I think. Are...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 9, 2009 5:22 pm
Hi all! A few days ago, I was bored, and decided to work on Freecell Solver in order to avoid being bored. What I decided to do was to split the various ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 15, 2009 11:32 am
... Subject: [hackers-il] Gotta Looove gdb Date: Saturday 14 March 2009 From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...> To: "Hackers-IL" <hackers-il@yahoogroups.com> ...
