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From: "Stephane Nicolet" <Stephane.Nicolet@ens.fr>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:42 AM
Subject: New endgame solitaires
We have calculated thousands of new solitaire puzzles, using the
latest WTHOR database. There are currently 40914 solitaire
positions, ranging from 6 to 18 empties :
solitaires with 6 empty squares = 4535
solitaires with 7 empty squares = 5191
solitaires with 8 empty squares = 3668
solitaires with 9 empty squares = 4170
solitaires with 10 empty squares = 3085
solitaires with 11 empty squares = 3548
solitaires with 12 empty squares = 2554
solitaires with 13 empty squares = 2980
solitaires with 14 empty squares = 2283
solitaires with 15 empty squares = 2523
solitaires with 16 empty squares = 2110
solitaires with 17 empty squares = 2386
solitaires with 18 empty squares = 1881
The archive containing the solitaires files can be downloaded
from the following URL :
http://cassio.free.fr/cassio/custom_install/database/solitaires/
The new solitaire files are not compatible with the Icare format since the
latest is restricted to 32500 puzzles. However, the new format is designed
to be very similar to the WTHOR format, so it should be straightforward
for any programmer who knows how to handle the WTHOR format to add support
for solitaire puzzles in his program. The latest documentation about
the WTHOR format, including information about recent extensions like 10x10
games and solitaires puzzles, can be found at :
http://cassio.free.fr/cassio/custom_install/database/FORMAT_WTHOR.TXT
Sincerely yours,
Stephane. |
