Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 10:15:41 04/01/05
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On April 01, 2005 at 07:48:08, pavel wrote: >On March 31, 2005 at 22:05:53, Steven Edwards wrote: >>I've started a side effort to have Symbolic's Lisp source produce an HTML >>version of its plain text narration output. It's a nice feature to have for >>debugging. For now, my plan is to produce a single (and rather simple) page per >>move selection and then use a browser to visually scan through the narration. >>As with the text narration, the HTML output will (for now) contain only text >>paragraphs and position diagrams. The above has been completed. Each diagram, composed of cute little piece images, is centered on the browser display with a FEN string for a caption. The text paragraphs apper left justified. >>A related idea is to be able to dump the entire search tree ot a set of HTML >>pages with hyperlinks (moves) connecting the pages. While the search is >>expected to be limited to under a thousand positions, that's still a lot of >>pages if one page per node is written. One possibility is to generate a page >>for each even ply node and include all immediate odd ply descendants on the same >>page. > >Wow. This sounds awesome. A lot like "opening Report" done by SCID database. But not as awesome as the Chess 3.x/4.x dynamic position/tree display drawn on a CDC mainframe vector graphics console. That was a work of art. Yet even more impressive was the electromechanical "display" that was used in a chess computer that appeared in an episode of the television series _Mission: Impossible_ back around 1970. Composed of a set of rotating blocks with labeled faces, it was a testament to the imagination of the show's writers. >I am curious. Is there any commercial or freeware release plan for the engine >when it's 'done'? First, it has to get done, and that won't be for quite a while. We will have to wait and see. >Please keep us updated. I always read it. I'll continue to report progress as it is made.
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