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Storm the Ivory Tower. A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Jul 17 05:11 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 04:49 PM:

For the specification of a number of squares (e.g. the starting squares of the pawns) I support a shorthand I.D. where you only have to specify the lower left and upper right corner of a rectangular board area, separated by a dash. That doesn't help much in Smess, but for Xiangqi a0-i4 would give you the entire area below the River, and d0-f2 the white Palace.

Are you saying this is something your code already supports or that it is an idea you would be behind?

Still, having to fully write down the list of coordinates for nearly all board squares is probably more cumbersome than using a FEN-like notation for the entire board.

It would be more compact, but it would take the same mental effort* as it would to write out each coordinate in a select-case structure like I proposed, and the select-case structure would have the advantage of being easier for a person to read and understand, as it would allow someone to go directly from the coordinate to the Betza code without taking the time to mentally unpack the FEN-like string.

* or more actually as you would be taking the extra step of compressing your data.