From: Jamie Macey <jamie.macey@...>
Date: 2006-12-17T07:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Chess960 (#106)

On 12/15/06, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
> Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> writes:
>
> > Output could be as follows.
> >
> >       Starting Position 432:
> >
> >       White
> >
> >       a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 h1
> >       N  B  B   R  K  R  Q  N
> >
> >       Black
> >
> >       a8 b8 c8 d8 e8 f8 g8 h8
> >       N  B  B   R  K  R  Q  N
> >
> > Or some better output.
>
> Let me suggest that another potential output format is an html page
> that when viewed in a browser looks like the opening format.  I happen
> to think that the chess boards shown on
>   http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ChessMarkup
> look particularly nice, and shouldn't be too hard to duplicate.
> (they're done as 8x8 tables, with the colors of the squares done by
> CSS and the pieces being .png images with transparency)  Presumably
> some enterprising person could then churn out a Rails page that showed
> a given starting position.

I haven't bothered generating the full table, I'm just randomly
generating the layouts.  I thought the app was a bit too lightweight
for Rails, but I stole the images from pmwiki.org and set up a camping
app here: http://www.tracefunc.com:3301/ - just refresh for a
different layout.

If I can find more time this weekend, I'll see about doing the table
lookup and adding that info to the page.

- Jamie