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Article #4409Re: Alternative Input Format
From: Tony Acero
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <DORMAN.95Apr2115527@cochlea.bu.edu>, Clark Dorman <dorman@cochlea.bu.edu> wrote: > >Greetings, > The man page that came with version 4.0 pl 74 says that I can use >the input format nf3 rather than g1f3. However, it does not seem to be >working. Has this part of the code fallen into disrepair? Also, I >personally do not like the geometric method of input, and much prefer the >input method of, say, N-KB3. Has this been considered as an alternative? >How hard would it be to code? Yes, I know that the usual response to these >questions is "Great idea. Go for it." but I was wondering before I start >if it has been tried, or if there are a priori reasons why it would not >work. The difficulty will be in making sure that there is not ambiguity in >the move, which I admit is not the case with the geometric input method. >Is there even sufficient interest to bother doing this? > > >-- >Clark Dorman >http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/dorman/Dorman.html The piece *has* to be in CAPS; ie., Nf3, Bb2, etc. Anibal Antonio Acero (Tony) Staff Analyst, Advanced Research Systems AIT/Networking Serv., The U. of Chicago a-acero@uchicago.edu (312)702-9349 or (312)259-6243 -- Anibal Antonio Acero (Tony) Staff Analyst, Advanced Research Services AIT/Networking Serv., The U. of Chicago a-acero@uchicago.edu (312)702-9349 or (312)259-6243
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,9c5400e00d248e9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: acero@rainbow.uchicago.edu (Tony Acero) Subject: Re: Alternative Input Format Date: 1995/04/02 Message-ID: <D6F9LJ.Huv@midway.uchicago.edu> X-Deja-AN: 100731238 sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) x-nntp-posting-host: rainbow.uchicago.edu references: <DORMAN.95Apr2115527@cochlea.bu.edu> organization: Advanced Research Systems, The Univ. of Chicago newsgroups: gnu.chess