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Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 7 Mar 1995.
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| | | / __|/ _ \ '_ \ / _ \ __|   / _ \ | '__/ __| '_ \| \ \ / / _ \
| |_| \__ \  __/ | | |  __/ |_   / ___ \| | | (__| | | | |\ V /  __/
 \___/|___/\___|_| |_|\___|\__| /_/   \_\_|  \___|_| |_|_| \_/ \___|
Line: Chess

Line: Chess

rec.arts.ascii · 4 messages · 7 Mar 1995 - 14 Mar 1995
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |   white    black
   || r ||  n  || b ||	q  || k	||  b  || n ||	r  |  ~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |   e2-e4
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
   |  p  || p ||  p  ||	p ||  p	 || p ||  p  ||	p ||
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |
   ||   ||     ||   ||	   || 	||     ||   ||	   |
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  Anyone want to
   |     ||   ||     ||	  ||  	 ||   ||     ||	  ||  play with me?
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |
   ||   ||     ||   ||	   || P	||     ||   ||	   |
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |  A few days ago
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  someone asked a
   |     ||   ||     ||	  ||  	 ||   ||     ||	  ||  chess bourd, I
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  can't find his
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |  address now! I 
   || P ||  P  || P ||	P  || 	||  P  || P ||	P  |  hope he can find
   |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |  this.
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
   |  R  || N ||  B  ||	Q ||  K	 || B ||  N  ||	R ||        made by
   |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk

This probably belongs in rec.games.chess, but what the heck!

      a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h
  .------------------------------------------.
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
8 |   r  # n #  b  # q #  k  # b #  n  # r # | 8
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |       e7-e5
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
7 | # p #  p  # p #  p  #####  p  # p #  p   | 7
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
6 |      #####     #####     #####     ##### | 6
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
5 | #####     #####     # p #     #####      | 5
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
4 |      #####     #####  P  #####     ##### | 4
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
3 | #####     #####     #####     #####      | 3
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
2 |   P  # P #  P  # P #     # P #  P  # P # | 2
  |      #####     #####     #####     ##### |
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
1 | # R #  N  # B #  Q  # K #  B  # N #  R   | 1
  | #####     #####     #####     #####      |
  `------------------------------------------'
      a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h

Although if we're going to keep this up, we should find a shorter way of 
trancribing the board... Any suggestions?


      |\      _,,,---,,_		ipe...@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		ipe...@vaxa.crc.mssm.edu
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

Tiri <ana...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> ASCII art 13 Mar 1995 23:07 · permalink · report
In article <3jii2r$qe...@gagme.wwa.com>, zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk%Pa...@paradigm.co.jp (zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk,Paranet) writes:
|> 
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |   white    black
|>    || r ||  n  || b ||	q  || k	||  b  || n ||	r  |  ~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |   e2-e4
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
|>    |  p  || p ||  p  ||	p ||  p	 || p ||  p  ||	p ||
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |
|>    ||   ||     ||   ||	   || 	||     ||   ||	   |
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  Anyone want to
|>    |     ||   ||     ||	  ||  	 ||   ||     ||	  ||  play with me?
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |
|>    ||   ||     ||   ||	   || P	||     ||   ||	   |
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |  A few days ago
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  someone asked a
|>    |     ||   ||     ||	  ||  	 ||   ||     ||	  ||  chess bourd, I
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  can't find his
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |  address now! I 
|>    || P ||  P  || P ||	P  || 	||  P  || P ||	P  |  hope he can find
|>    |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||	   |  this.
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||
|>    |  R  || N ||  B  ||	Q ||  K	 || B ||  N  ||	R ||        made by
|>    |     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||     |||||||  zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk
|> 


 How about this one?


        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   | 8
        |*  O  *|   I%  |*  O  *|  /|\  |*  O  *|   I%  |*  I% *|   O   |
        |*  M  *|       |* (+) *| . . . |*  +  *|       |*     *|   M   |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *| 7
        |   o   |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|
        |       |*     *|       |*     *|       |*     *|       |*     *|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       | 6
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******| 5
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       | 4
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******| 3
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        |*     *|       |*     *|       |*     *|       |*     *|       | 2
        |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|   o   |*  o  *|   o   |
        |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |
        |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        |   W   |*     *|  (+)  |*. . .*|   +   |* (+) *|       |*  W  *| 1
        |   O   |* %I  *|   O   |* \|/ *|   O   |*  O  *|  %I   |*  O  *|
        |   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|   D   |*  D  *|
        |       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|       |*******|
        +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

            a       b       c       d       e       f       g       h


--Tiri
                     /\         Anastos 'Tiri' Sotiris 
         /vvvvvvvvvvvv \--------------------------------------,
         `^^^^^^^^^^^^ /====================================="
                     \/   ana...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

Richard Kirk <ra...@canon.co.uk> ASCII art 14 Mar 1995 14:44 · permalink · report
Sorry to post this again, but...



Here are the pieces...

+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|:nun:| =%' |:(\):| (+) |:(W):| (/) |:`%=:| nun |
|:]@[:|  /[ |:]@[:| ]@[ |:]@[:| ]@[ |:]\::| ]@[ |  
|:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|
| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |
|:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| nun |:=%':| (\) |:(+):| (W) |:(/):| `%= |:nun:|
| ] [ |::/[:| ] [ |:] [:| ] [ |:] [:| ]\  |:] [:|  
| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+

And if you leave out the lines in between the squares you can just 
squeeze the board onto a 24-line display like a vt320.

|:nun:| =%' |:(\):| (+) |:(W):| (/) |:`%=:| nun |
|:]@[:|  /[ |:]@[:| ]@[ |:]@[:| ]@[ |:]\::| ]@[ |  
|:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|  @  |::@::|
| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:| @@@ |:@@@:|
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|
|:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |:::::|     |
|::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |::0::|  0  |
|:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |
| nun |:=%':| (\) |:(+):| (W) |:(/):| `%= |:nun:|
| ] [ |::/[:| ] [ |:] [:| ] [ |:] [:| ]\  |:] [:|  
| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):| (_) |:(_):|    

--
Richard Kirk                      01483-448869 (phone)  01483-448845 (fax)
Canon Research Europe Ltd,                              ra...@canon.co.uk

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