Re: [pbmserv-dev] automatic erasure of boards from reply emails?

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

That is how I did it for stratego.  Any line in the comments which
contains "A  B  C  D  E  F  G" is very likely to be followed by the board.

You can copy and adapt Stratego::PrepareMove for your purposes.

~ John Williams


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Douglas Zander wrote:

> Hi, I recieved a move in Blackbox and my opponent had left the boards from his
> move in the reply email.  That means that I saw his board with the secret
> placement of the atoms which I wasn't supposed to see.  I had noticed in some
> other games (other than Blackbox games) that the boards get erased
> automatically from the reply email.  I wish to ask why they did not get erased
> from this game?  Is there a command I don't know about that will recognize and
> erase the boards in replies?  I guess I could program something to look at the
> comments section and try to recognize when a board is being included in the
> comments and then erase it.  I guess that is the only way to really do it?  How
> is this done in other games?
>