Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:44:51 12/08/03
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On December 08, 2003 at 15:42:47, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>Does somebody know a good representation to print the board in the Console?
>I currently use
>
>8 *r *n *b *q *k *b *n *r
>7 *p *p *p *p *p *p *p *p
>6 . . . . . . . .
>5 . . . . . . . .
>4 . . . . . . . .
>3 . . . . . . . .
>2 P P P P P P P P
>1 R N B Q K B N R
>
> a b c d e f g h
>
>(ok, imagine we had proportional fonts), but especially the diagonals are hard
>to see. Can somebody point me towards a good example?
>I like the Crafty representation, but I don't want to create a Crafty clone
>(really no offense meant).
>
>regards
>Andy
I use this: (cheerfully stolen from FICS/ICC) :)
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
8 | *R| *N| *B| *Q| *K| *B| *N| *R|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
7 | *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P| *P|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
6 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
5 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
4 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
3 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
2 | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
1 | R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
a b c d e f g h
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