Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:31:35 10/24/98
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On October 23, 1998 at 19:30:36, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: >On October 23, 1998 at 03:39:50, Andrew Williams wrote: > ><snip> > >> >>I have always used "o" for black pawns and "P" for white pawns. >>My text board looks like this: >> >>8 . . . . . . . . >>7 . . . . . B o . >>6 . . . . P . . . >>5 . . . . . . o P >>4 . b . k . P . . >>3 . . . . . K . . >>2 . . . . . . . . >>1 . . . . . . . . >> >> a b c d e f g h >> >> >>This seems clear to me, but I can't tell if that is because I am used to it >>now. >> >> >>Andrew Williams > >I like it - daringly minimalist. > >I'd have to try playing a game against it to see if the absence of >the traditional "checkerboard" makes diagonal moves difficult to see, >but it looks good. The only hurdle would be acquainting the viewer with >the convention. > >While "text boards" may seem archaic in this GUI world, they still come >in handy for email (though I'd always add an .EPD version, like Bruce did) >and for use in the "ALT" field of HTML "IMG" tags, so that people with >non-graphical browsers can view chess diagrams on the Web (although, again, >I'd encourage including an .EPD version, too). > >Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) Here's a style that I like: It might be clearer to use 'o' for the white pawns, and '@' for the black ones. The 'o' is unfilled, if you could get a filled bullet, use it for the dark pawns. It might be better to remove have of the background periods, so that the checkerboard pattern is visible. Real chessboards use two colours because envisioning diagonal moves is quite a bit easier. I think the same holds for ascii boards. With those suggestions implemented, the board would be: 8 . . . . 7 . . . B @ 6 . . P . . 5 . . . @ O 4 b k O . 3 . . . K . 2 . . . . 1 . . . . a b c d e f g h
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