9. The fc-solve-discuss flame-war

• Recent versions of Freecell Solver pass the moves from the initial position to the final solution to the layer above them.
• The stack -> stack moves are being outputted with the number of cards that are moved.
• Freecell Pro, on the other hand, used to ignore the number of cards and expected such moves to comply with what the original Microsoft Freecell would do in that case.
• This caused problems in playback of a large percentage of the games in its integration with Freecell Solver.
• A post I made to the mailing list about it sparked a very big flamewar that diverted to cover related topics.
• I was actually happy that there was some action there.
• Usually the only things that happen there is that I announce new releases or ask the members questions and no-one or few people reply.
• Eventually, Adrian Ettlinger (an FC-Pro hacker) have extended Freecell Pro to make use of an optional number of cards to move argument. This made playback of Freecell Solver solutions perfectly smooth.