Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 19:27:57 06/10/04
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On June 10, 2004 at 22:26:19, Andrew Wagner wrote: >On June 10, 2004 at 21:01:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>I am going to summarize my viewpoint here, and leave it at that. Ultimately it >>is your format, so you can do whatever you want with it. I am just trying to >>give you some advice. >> >>You have 3 options: SAN, Coordinate, and Long SAN >> >>SAN Advantages: Easy for humans to read >>SAN Disadvantages: Relatively difficult to parse. See epd.c. >> >>Coordinate Advantages: Easy to parse (1 line). >>Coordinate Disadvantage: Difficult for humans to read >> >>Long SAN Advantages: Pretty easy for humans to understand >> Easy to parse (1 line) >>Long SAN Disadvantages: 2 extra characters over coordinate. >> >>You and Russel say that no one is supposed to be reading these files. I say why >>go out of your way to make it hard? Why throw away something that you can get >>for free? I can think of any number of scenarios where it would be useful to >>look in the file. For example, Zappa makes a questionable move, so I go back >>and grep for the move. Then I can read score, ply, PV, etc. I don't know about >>you, but I can follow at least 8-10 ply of a PV if it is SAN. >> >>I simply do not see any advantage to coordinate notation over long SAN. Let me >>make this clear: coordinate is not easier to parse for computers, but it is much >>more difficult for humans to understand. The *only* advantage of coordinate >>notation that you save 2 bytes. Coordinate is not too bad when you have the >>board in front of you, but when you are recalling something from memory it is >>much worse. >> >>The (obvious) international solution is simply to allow any piece type. You are >>free to write Xf3xe5 Vd6-d5 or any other random characters you like. The piece >>letter is for the human. The only issue is the promotion type, but you'll have >>to worry about that anyway for coordinate notation. >> >>What it comes down to is this: is there _any_ point where coordinate is better >>than Long SAN? >> >>anthony > >Good summary. You make some excellent points, and I'm beginning to favor your >viewpoint a bit more now. Hmm, as soon as I hit submit on that last post, I had another thought. Your obvious international solution doesn't cover promotions. What are you suggesting with respect to that?
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