dds(6)
NAME
dds - double dummy solver frontend
SYNOPSIS
dds file [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
This program is a command line interface for Bo Haglund's Double Dummy
Solver (DDS).
It has four useful stand-alone options:
1. Option -playdd, to play any deal double dummy.
2. Option -giblib. For any deal, to get maximum trick values for
all possible contracts and leaders (these are the 20 trick
values as for giblib).
3. Option -tricks. For specified deal, to get maximum trick values
for all possible contracts and leaders (these are the 20 trick
values as for giblib).
4. Option -gen. This is to generate deals, without or with up to 20
possible trick values.
OPTIONS
file path for 'giblib' input file
Optional arguments [options] are one or more of:
-v verbose where applicable
-target=d
-1-13 (default -1). Number of tricks to be won by the side to
play, -1 means that the program shall find the maximum number.
For equivalent cards only the highest is returned.
-sol=d solution 1/2/3 (default 3). How many card solutions SolveBoard
returns:
target=1-13, solutions=1: Returns only one of the cards. Its
returned score is the same as target when target or higher
tricks can be won. Otherwise, score -1 is returned if target
cannot be reached, or score 0 if no tricks can be won.
target=-1, solutions=1: Returns only one of the optimum cards
and its score.
target=0, solutions=1: Returns only one of the cards legal to
play with score set to 0.
target=1-13, solutions=2: Return all cards meeting target.
Their returned scores are the same as target when target or
higher tricks can be won. Otherwise, only one card is returned
with score -1 if target cannot be reached, or score 0 for all
cards legal to play if no tricks can be won.
target=-1, solutions=2: Return all optimum cards with their
scores.
target=0, solutions=2: Return all cards legal to play with
scores set to 0.
target irrelevant, solutions=3: Return all cards that can be
legally played with their scores in descending order.
-mode=d
0/1 (default 1). DLL mode of operation. This mode does not
affect the DLL if there are multiple choices for cards to play.
If there is just one card to play, or multiple cards that are
all equivalent, this mode determines whether or not the DLL
will search to find the score.
mode=0: Do not search to find the score if the hand to play has
only one card, including its equivalents, to play. Score is set
to -2 for this card, indicating that there are no alternative
cards. This mode is very fast.
mode=1: Always search to find the score. Even when the hand to
play has only one card, with possible equivalents, to play.
-trumps=t
s/h/d/c/n, this overrides the file (default=n)
-leader=l
w/n/e/s, this overrides the file (default=w) but used only when
no cards have been played
-deal=d
1/2/... deal number in giblib file. Only one of -deal or -name
should be specified.
-name=str
deal with 'name=str' in giblib file. Only one of -deal or -name
should be specified.
-playdd
play deal choosing between DDS alternatives
-timeall
time all deals in file for sol=1/2/3, print stats
-timeg=xcn
x - hex digit, total tricks by n-s
c - contract s/h/d/c/n
n - number of deals
time the first n deals in the giblib file, having total tricks x
at contract c, for target=-1 sol=1 mode=1 and for the
specified/default leader, each deal is validated.
-giblib=d1-d2[-all]
validate all deals from d1 to d2 in giblib file for target=-1
sol=1 mode=1. 1. if -all is given, this is done for all of the
20 trick values even if some of them are '-'. 2. if -all is not
given, this is done only for those trick values which are not
'-'.
-tricks
like -giblib, but for single deal specified by -name=str -deal=d
or option
Generate deals:
-gen=n (required) n=number of deals to generate. output is written to
a file (see below)
-genseed=s
(default 0) seed for random generator
-gencards=c
(default=52) number of cards generated per deal, must be
multiple of 4
-gentricks=t
0,1,...,20 (default 1), number of tricks values to set randomly
Generate output is written to a file:
gen-genseed-ndeal-gencards-gentricks.txt
NOTES
The program was named ddd by its author. As there is already some other ddd package in Debian (the gdb frontend) it was renamed to dds, the name of the library used.
SEE ALSO
dealer(6), deal(6). DDS(6)
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