Author: Dan Homan
Date: 05:58:38 10/23/98
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On October 23, 1998 at 08:18:16, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>"DarkThought" currently uses capital letters for all pieces and adds a leading
>asterisk "*" for black ones. Moreover, I prefer compact files and ranks without
>any delimiters between them. Dark squares are marked by colons ":" that shine
>through at the sides if a piece is placed on them. See below for an example.
>
> +------------------------+
>1 | :K: R ::: ::: :::|
>2 |::: ::: ::: :P: P |
>3 | :P: :Q: ::: :::|
>4 |::: :N: P ::: *P: |
>5 | ::: ::: P ::: *P:|
>6 |*Q: ::: *P: P ::: |
>7 | :::*R ::: *P: :::|
>8 |*K: ::: ::: :::*R |
> +------------------------+
> h g f e d c b a
>
>=Ernst=
I use something similar in EXchess, but the colons don't 'shine
through' the pieces...
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
8 | |:::| |:::| |<R>|<K>|:::| White to move
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
7 |:::|<P>|<P>|<B>|:::| |:::|<P>| castle: -
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
6 |<P>|:::|<P>|<B>| |:::| |:::|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
5 |:::| |:::| |:::| |<Q>| |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
4 | |:::| | P | |<P>| |<R>| fifty: 0
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
3 |:::| | P | | R | |:::| P | Computer time: 30 seconds
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
2 | P | P | | B | Q |:::| P |:::|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
1 |:::| |:::| |:::| R | K | N |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
a b c d e f g h
- Dan
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