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I have finally finished this huge tutorial. It gathers every known technique in one place (I hope I didn't miss anything).
Disclaimer: English is not my first language, so there may be mistakes or poorly written parts. Also, I haven't read it through a second time, so there may be typos as well.
In the past someone pointed out that my writing style is boring: yes, I understand it is. The way this tutorial is written probably won't motivate you if you aren't already. I used to blame the fact that I am not writing in my language, but when writing the Italian version of this tutorial I found out it was boring in the same way. Too bad.
Feel free to translate this to any other language and to distribute this or other version anywhere. Just don't translate my name under the title with yours
You can download the PDF from here.
Let me know if you find any mistake or if there is some technique that I didn't include or for any other reason.
Happy FMC.
P.S.: Fun fact: the Italian version is almost 3 pages longer, though I have almost never shortened sentences on purpose. Sometimes I changed the structure of some sentences so that they didn't sound like they were poorly translated from Italian (which they are). Linguist geek may have fun with this.
2014-09-04 Update:
- Some "bugfixing" (including the missing ' in that 2c2e alg) (thanks to obelisk477).
- Specified that the inverse of a 2c2e alg solves the same case (thank to cuBerBruce).
- Expanded the "Get Lucky" section with two examples: "Insert Last Pair" and "How to Use Algorithms" (thanks to Bruce and Cubenovice).
- Added a reference to multislotting, with D R U R' D' as an example; together with the example solve I used to explain premoves, it should cover the "skewed pairs" topic (thanks to cuBerBruce).
- Added a section under "Advanced Tools": "Pair Analysis". Go find out what it is
2017-08-23 BIG UPDATE!
Version 2.0 is here! Basically it just look better, but I have also updated some stuff (like records and links) and added examples and pictures. See the first pages for more about what's new.
The old link still works. The old version is available here.
2020-01-14 Version 3.0 is out!
List of changes:
Since the last version of this tutorial I have fixed like a million typos and probably introduced a lot of new ones. I have also decided to replace .png images with .svg ones, which look much better.
I have removed the appendix with last layer algorithms and just linked a raw text file instead. I have moved the general section on EO to Chapter 2 and merged the remainder of Chapter 4 with Chapter 3.
Other than that, I have added a few sections:
The link to the new version is always the same. The old version (2.0) is avalable here.
Disclaimer: English is not my first language, so there may be mistakes or poorly written parts. Also, I haven't read it through a second time, so there may be typos as well.
In the past someone pointed out that my writing style is boring: yes, I understand it is. The way this tutorial is written probably won't motivate you if you aren't already. I used to blame the fact that I am not writing in my language, but when writing the Italian version of this tutorial I found out it was boring in the same way. Too bad.
Feel free to translate this to any other language and to distribute this or other version anywhere. Just don't translate my name under the title with yours
You can download the PDF from here.
Let me know if you find any mistake or if there is some technique that I didn't include or for any other reason.
Happy FMC.
P.S.: Fun fact: the Italian version is almost 3 pages longer, though I have almost never shortened sentences on purpose. Sometimes I changed the structure of some sentences so that they didn't sound like they were poorly translated from Italian (which they are). Linguist geek may have fun with this.
2014-09-04 Update:
- Some "bugfixing" (including the missing ' in that 2c2e alg) (thanks to obelisk477).
- Specified that the inverse of a 2c2e alg solves the same case (thank to cuBerBruce).
- Expanded the "Get Lucky" section with two examples: "Insert Last Pair" and "How to Use Algorithms" (thanks to Bruce and Cubenovice).
- Added a reference to multislotting, with D R U R' D' as an example; together with the example solve I used to explain premoves, it should cover the "skewed pairs" topic (thanks to cuBerBruce).
- Added a section under "Advanced Tools": "Pair Analysis". Go find out what it is
2017-08-23 BIG UPDATE!
Version 2.0 is here! Basically it just look better, but I have also updated some stuff (like records and links) and added examples and pictures. See the first pages for more about what's new.
The old link still works. The old version is available here.
2020-01-14 Version 3.0 is out!
List of changes:
Since the last version of this tutorial I have fixed like a million typos and probably introduced a lot of new ones. I have also decided to replace .png images with .svg ones, which look much better.
I have removed the appendix with last layer algorithms and just linked a raw text file instead. I have moved the general section on EO to Chapter 2 and merged the remainder of Chapter 4 with Chapter 3.
Other than that, I have added a few sections:
- Sections 2.4.6 and 3.8 on edge insertions.
- Section 2.5.3 about partial domino reduction.
- Section 3.4 about using NISS to find nice EOs.
- Section 3.7.1 “Skew centers and NISS”.
- Section 3.10, “Replace and shorten”.
- Appendix C, “Some exercises by Reto Bubendorf”.
- Appendix D, a short introduction to domino reduction.
The link to the new version is always the same. The old version (2.0) is avalable here.
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