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- I. I N T R O D U C T I O N
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- SPIDER is a particularly challenging double-deck solitaire. Unlike most
- solitaires, it provides extraordinary opportunities for the skillful player
- to overcome bad luck in the deal by means of careful analysis and complex
- manipulations. The SPIDER program does not actually play the game for you,
- but rather takes the place of the cards (by displaying the tableau on the
- screen) and keeping a record of the game so that you can follow out long
- lines of play without losing track of where you started from. (Besides, it's
- a neat display hack.)
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- Section II of this documentation describes the rules of the game; section III
- describes the use of the program; section IV gives some "Spider problems" to
- provide a feel for the complexity that can arise (the problems are based on
- positions that arose in actual play).
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- [Copyright (c) 1989, Donald R. Woods and Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
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