Re: [pbmserv-dev] ratings

[Eduard Werner <edi.werner@gmx.de>]

> how difficult would it be to separate the chushogi and daishogi ratings?  

Having looked a bit into the chushogi code (still haven't got this
Tenjiku stuff going -- are you listening, Sharkey?), this should be
*really* easy.  The fast hack would be to double the stuff, hardcode
the ifs asking about dai to return true (or false in the chu code) and
change the name accordingly to receive separate listings.  I guess it
would be about 5 minutes for Sharkey and about 30 mins for me to
figure it out (and I wouldn't call myself an experienced programmer
and I'm definitely hopeless at C++). But how many Dai Shogi boards are
there out there and how many finished games of Dai? Anyone out there
playing Dai Shogi who does not have a lot more Chu games running? I'm
aware of two games of Dai running; if that's all we have over the last
year or so?

> currently daishogi is an option of chushogi so all the ratings blend 
> together.  and now that i think about it, there's also an option to play 
> chushogi with drops, so all three blend together (and i imagine you can play 
> dai with drops too then altho i've never tried it), it would definitely be 
> nice to have them separated.  but again, this is something that for all i 
> know can be easily done in 5 minutes or would take hours of work.

I second this. Dai Shogi and Chu Shogi are very different in look and feel
(at least to a Chu Shogi player). It's like having Chess and Doublechess
as the same game.

Cheers

Edi