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Short Sliders. Pieces are initially limited to 4 spaces (if that), and promote to longer moves. (12x16, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Apr 8 06:12 PM UTC:

I've now added an Interactive Diagram for this game, though I have yet to playtest it. As I note in the text, I used extended Latin so I could have one-letter codes for all of the (more than 26) pieces and feel confident with the promotions... though I'm still not that confident. (I think I need to add a captureMatrix for each of the promoting pieces.)


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Apr 8 06:29 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 06:12 PM:

While trying to see the ID with my Android Phone, i just get a rectangle for the Berolina initial. I don t think that the diacritic letters are adding anything. I think they rebute the players. Using a two-letter system would be more attractive and efficient imo.


💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Apr 8 06:38 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 06:29 PM:

While trying to see the ID with my Android Phone, i just get a rectangle for the Berolina initial. I don t think that the diacritic letters are adding anything. I think they rebute the players. Using a two-letter system would be more attractive and efficient imo.

I actually agree with you, as far as that goes. I'm not sure two-letter codes work in morph and captureMatrix statements, though (H. G. can enlighten me on that).


H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 9 06:19 AM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Mon Apr 8 06:38 PM:

I think it should be possible to use multi-character IDs in morph and captureMatrix by using comma separation in the rows these occur. This is untested, though. And the Play-Test Applet won't generate this format, but just concatenates the IDs, even if these are multi-character. So you would have to insert the commas by hand.


💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Apr 9 03:04 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:19 AM:

I'll give that a shot, then, and if it works I'll ditch all the extended-Latin characters for this game.


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