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Subject: Re: ASCII chess boards

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 10:05:21 06/05/00

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On June 05, 2000 at 07:49:11, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>Hi programmers!
>
>I would like to see how you print an ASCII chess board. At the moment my ASCII
>board looks like this:
>
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>8 |=R=|=N=|=B=|=Q=|=K=|=B=|=N=|=R=|
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    Black: Steffen (1800)
>7 |=P=|=P=|=P=|=P=|=P=|=P=|=P=|=P=|
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    Black material: 41.72
>6 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>5 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    White to move
>4 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>3 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    White material: 41.72
>2 | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    White: Hossa v1.81 (C) (2400)
>1 | R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

Hi Steffen,

After using an ASCII layout very similar to yours as shown above
for quite a while, I designed my own new one for "DarkThought"
with better space-efficiency in mind.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

kqKQ -
  +------------------------+
8 |*R *N:*B *Q:*K *B:*N *R:|
7 |*P:*P *P:*P *P:*P *P:*P |
6 |   :::   :::   :::   :::|
5 |:::   :::   :::   :::   |
4 |   :::   :::   :::   :::|
3 |:::   :::   :::   :::   |
2 | P :P: P :P: P :P: P :P:|
1 |:R: N :B: Q :K: B :N: R |
  +------------------------+
    a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

=Ernst=



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