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Re: [pbmserv-dev] cathedral
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Zander" <dzander@solaria.sol.net>
>In the sample board from Sirrus, the tower was confusing, it did not look
>like it was facing west.
I have to disagree. The position of the tower in the sample board I posted
was not confusing. It was just plain wrong! :) This would be the right one:
Dark Light
---------------------
1. CAnE5 CSeF5
2. TOwG5
A B C D E F G H I J
·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·
1 | |
· · · · · · · · · · ·
2 | |
· · · · · · · · · · ·
3 | |
· · · ·---·---·---· · · · ·
4 | | O O O | |
· · · · ·---· ·---·---· · ·
5 | | O |^N^| E>|<W X | |
· · · ·---· ·---·---· ·---· ·
6 | | + + + | | X X | |
· · · ·---· ·---· ·---· · ·
7 | | + | | X | |
· · · · · · · · ·---· ·
8 | | + | |
· · · · ·---· · · · · ·
9 | |
· · · · · · · · · · ·
10 | |
·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·---·
Sorry about that!
>Is anyone else thinking of writing this game for the server?
>If I did do the game of cathedral for the server I would change some
>things to try to make it look better. Please look over this email and
>give me your suggestions and whether or not you like the look I propose.
>(is it asthetically pleasing, functional, understandable?)
I like mine better. :) I think dots '·' make for better corners than your
hyphens '-'. Just an opinion, anyway.
> in each example the location of the asterick '*' is the location that
> the piece is placed on the board when giving a move notation
Hmm. I don't get it. Are you proposing a new notation? This is not the same
as the one already proposed. What is the purpose of that asterisk?
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---------------------------------------------------------
A | . . . . . . . .
| ---------
B | . . . . . | o o | .
| ----- ----- -----
C | . . | X | . | o o | . .
| | ----| -----
D | . . | X X | o | . . . .
| ----- -----
E | . . . | X X | . . .
| ---------
F | . . . . . . . . .
>here, Ohs placed a tower at B6 (location of asterick) facing south TOsB6
That move would be TOsD5 with the 'standard' notation. The arrow would be
placed at E5, which is the 'anchorage point' of the piece on the board, so
to speak.
>then, Eks places a tower at C3 facing east: his move would be TOeC3
And this one would be TOeE5.
Why don't you like the notation proposed at
http://www.cathedral-game.co.nz/onlineplay.htm? I don't think there's any
need to change that.
(Also, I don't like the dots being at the center of each 'square', instead
of using them as corners. OK, you can call me anal retentive if you wish.
:)
Sirrus