🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 12:31 AM UTC:
Regarding the Herald's move, I have not yet added anything for taking into
account the position of a piece. Given that I want Piece Code to define
pieces in a board-independent way, and to be understandable both by humans
and by software, there may not be a feasible way for it to handle how the
Herald moves. I plan to eventually add strings of Piece Code to PBM piece
sets, and these are intended to be used with any board someone gives FEN
code for. If I tried to define a piece in terms of a particular board, it
may break down on another board. Instead of trying to make it do
everything, I'll accept some limitations in Piece Code and use it mainly
for generating warning messages that a given move may be illegal. I may
take the earlier suggestion of using some symbol that indicates that the
code only partially describes how a piece moves.
