Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:12:27 10/23/98
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On October 23, 1998 at 07:39:44, Jari Huikari wrote: >On October 22, 1998 at 21:01:28, Fawna Bergstrom wrote: > >>It's great, I agree, except for the black pawns. They look just like the white >>pawns. Can anyone suggest an improvement? I'm stumped! > >In some old version of Nero I used characters. Black and white pieces had >different colours to show which were which. And for pawns I used letter 'o', >which looks like a pawn seen from bird's perspective... > >But this ASCII board has only one colour, so black pawn could be e.g. a '*'. >How does it look like? > > > a b c d e f g h > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >8 | |///| |///| |///| |///| 8 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >7 |///| |///| |///| B |/*/| | 7 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >6 | |///| |///| o |///| |///| 6 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >5 |///| |///| |///| |/*/| o | 5 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >4 | |/b/| |/k/| |/o/| |///| 4 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >3 |///| |///| |///| K |///| | 3 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >2 | |///| |///| |///| |///| 2 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >1 |///| |///| |///| |///| | 1 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ > a b c d e f g h > >Perhaps I like it more without '/':s > > a b c d e f g h > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >8 | | | | | | | | | 8 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >7 | | | | | | B | * | | 7 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >6 | | | | | o | | | | 6 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >5 | | | | | | | * | o | 5 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >4 | | b | | k | | o | | | 4 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >3 | | | | | | K | | | 3 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >2 | | | | | | | | | 2 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >1 | | | | | | | | | 1 > +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ > a b c d e f g h > >If one is having bold-feature to use. I think black piece's font could be >bold. They'd look "more black" than the other pieces. > > Jari I like it better without the '///'s too. But actually, I think that is what attracted Dan to this board representation in the first place! James
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