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Subject: Re: piece list possibilities

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:13:12 07/08/98

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On July 08, 1998 at 03:51:14, Dan Newman wrote:

>The main problem I guess is in taking back a move *after* you've
>shortened the list--the algorithm that worked in the search no
>longer works here since the pointer to the captured piece now
>points to the wrong piece.  So my idea is to simply reset the
>board to the starting position and run through all but the last
>one or two game moves to do a takeback--not very elegant I guess.

A heck of a lot more elegant than writing a lot of special code to handle this
one case.

bruce



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