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Subject: Re: Great character representation of a chess board!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:23:30 10/22/98

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On October 22, 1998 at 23:27:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 22, 1998 at 20:30:35, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 1998 at 13:03:26, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>8 |   |///|   |///|   |///|   |///| 8
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>7 |///|   |///|   |///| B |/p/|   | 7
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>6 |   |///|   |///| P |///|   |///| 6
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>5 |///|   |///|   |///|   |/p/| P | 5
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>4 |   |/b/|   |/k/|   |/P/|   |///| 4
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>3 |///|   |///|   |///| K |///|   | 3
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>2 |   |///|   |///|   |///|   |///| 2
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>1 |///|   |///|   |///|   |///|   | 1
>>>  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
>>>    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h
>>Someone was looking for a better way to display a chessboard using only
>>characters some time ago in r.g.c.c.  I would just like to comment that this is
>>the best I have ever seen.  I hope whoever was looking for it finds this.
>
>
>Boy do I disagree.   :)  IE how about those pawns on f4, g5 and h5?  What
>color are they?
B,B,W
Maybe [p], #p# or even *p* would be better for black, but I could see it right
off.

>I would *not* want to analyze using that (or any ascii board in fact).
Well, I agree there,  but if it _HAS_ to be ASCII, I like this layout a lot.



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