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Subject: Re: ASCII Board representation

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 14:24:06 12/08/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 16:34:48, Andrew Williams wrote:

>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

Similar to the one in Pooky:

r n b q k b n r
o o o o o o o o
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
x x x x x x x x
R N B Q K B N R

Dave



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