X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f1699d30bb8405c6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine Subject: Re: Mancala board Date: 1997/12/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 298467508 References: <66svp7$ns6$1@news01.micron.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk [158.152.196.209] Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art In article <66svp7$ns6$1@news01.micron.net>, David Day writes >Also, here is a chess board using the same concept. (This is better looking >than my mancala board!) In your opinion; it came out chewed up and misaligned. For chess, think of the boards used for chess puzzles (or indeed game examples) in magazines. I'm no chessplayer, so I'll have to go by memory that the peices are notated as R = rook P = pawn N = knight B = bishop K = king Q = queen And I'll precede them with a # if black an ' if white Try out a board just using letters ________________________________ |:::: :::: :::: :::: | 8 |:#R: #N :#B: #K :#Q: #B :#N: #R | | :::: :::: :::: ::::| 7 | #p :#p: #p :#p: #p :#p: #p :#p:| |:::: :::: :::: :::: | 6 |:::: :::: :::: :::: | | :::: :::: :::: ::::| 5 | :::: :::: :::: ::::| ~ |:::: :::: :::: :::: | 4 |:::: :::: :::: :::: | | :::: :::: :::: ::::| 3 | :::: :::: :::: ::::| |:::: :::: :::: :::: | 2 |:'p: 'p :'p: 'p :'p: 'p :'p: 'p | | :::: :::: :::: ::::| 1 | 'R :'N: 'B :'K: 'Q :'B: 'N :'R:| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a b c d, e f g h I tried only 3 wide, but it is naff -- very unsquare. To use "real" grafic pieces they could only be 3 characters high ................................................... ;:["]:: [@Zn :(\):: |M| ;:\W/:: (\) :[@Zn: ["] ; 8:/#\:: /#\ :/#\:: /#\ ;:/#\:: /#\ :/#\:: /#\ ; ;[###]:[###]_[###]:[###]_;[###]:[###]_[###]:[###]_; ; () ::():: () ::()::; () ::():: () ::()::; 7 /\ ::/\:: /\ ::/\::; /\ ::/\:: /\ ::/\::; ;_[##]_:[##]:_[##]_:[##]:;_[##]_:[##]:_[##]_:[##]:; ;:::::: :::::: ;:::::: :::::: ; 6:::::: :::::: ;:::::: :::::: ; ;::::::______::::::______;::::::______::::::______; ; :::::: ::::::; :::::: ::::::; 5 :::::: ::::::; :::::: ::::::; :______;;;;;;______;;;;;;;______;;;;;;______;;;;;;; ;:::::: :::::: ;:::::: :::::: ; 4:::::: :::::: ;:::::: :::::: ; ;::::::______::::::______;::::::______::::::______; ; :::::: ::::::; :::::: ::::::; 3 :::::: ::::::; :::::: ::::::; ;______::::::______::::::;______::::::______::::::; ;::():: () ::():: () ;::():: () ::():: () ; 2::/\:: /\ ::/\:: /\ ;::/\:: /\ ::/\:: /\ ; ;:[__]:_[__]_:[__]:_[__]_;:[__]:_[__]_:[__]:_[__]_; ; ["] :[@Zn: (\) :[M]::; \W/ :(\):: [@Zn :["]::; 1 /_\ :/_\:: /_\ :/_\::; /_\ :/_\:: /_\ :/_\::; :[___]_[___]:[___]_[___]:;[___]_[___]:[___]_[___]:; '''a'''''b'''''c'''''d'''"'''e'''''f'''''g'''''h''' This could be used to play chess by email. (Or perhaps someone wants to play a game on a newsgroup thread here?) |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)