Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 14:06:24 10/23/98
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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? > >I would *not* want to analyze using that (or any ascii board in fact). There is a difference between a text board like the above, and what I understand as an asii board. An ascii board, as I understand the term, is a chessboard made up of ascii characters, which include many non-text characters, even some simple graphics characters if you have extended ascii. In my program I display the board using these characters on a 50x80 character screen, the board occupying about 3/4 of the screen. I use colour, so there is no problem of light and dark squares. The pieces are not just characters, but actual chess-piece symbols made up of many blocks, down to a resolution of 1/2 a screen character. While not being as nice as, say, the Xboard/Winboard diagram, it is certainly easy to see exactly what's what. It is even possible to include details like a cross on the bishops and the eye for the knights at this resolution. I have seen far worse computer boards at any rate, and it is certainly much better than anything else I have seen using just text. It took a long time working out the patterns for each piece, but I did it ages ago for a DOS (text mode) version of my program, and I just kept on using it ever since. Best wishes, Roberto
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