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Subject: Re: ASCII Board representation

Author: Filip Tvrzsky

Date: 17:02:50 12/08/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 17:24:06, David Dahlem wrote:

>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

And to my one:

 r n b q k b n r
 p p p p p p p p
 . * . * . * . *
 * . * . * . * .
 . * . * . * . *
 * . * . * . * .
 P P P P P P P P
 R N B Q K B N R

Filip



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