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Subject: Re: ASCII Board representation

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 04:06:04 12/09/03

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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


	    ---------------------------------
	 8  |*r |///|*b |///|   |*r/|*k |///|
	    ---------------------------------
	 7  |///|   |*q/|   |*b/|   |*p/|*p |
	    ---------------------------------
	 6  |*p |///|   |*p/|*p |*n/|   |///|
	    ---------------------------------
	 5  |///|*p |///|   |///|   |///|   |
	    ---------------------------------
	 4  |   |///|   |/Q/| P |///|   |///|
	    ---------------------------------
	 3  |///| B |/N/|   |/B/|   |///|   |
	    ---------------------------------
	 2  | P |/P/| P |///|   |///| P |/P/|
	    ---------------------------------
	 1  |/R/|   |///|   |///| R |/K/|   |
	    ---------------------------------
	      a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

Searcher's

Frank



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