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Subject: Re: ASCII Board representation

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 13:34:48 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

PM's representation looks like this (this will look very odd in a non-monospaced
font):

8  r n b q k b n r
7  o o o o o o o o
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


Andrew



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