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7 points·KennyCason··6 comments

I like this. It's a shame I don't play these games anymore like I did in college.

While it is interesting and useful, you should market it to people that could use it. I'd look at a chess sites and chess clubs. People love to communicate and share. You could also build a site that acts as a Wiki for chess plays. That would be pretty cool actually.

Thanks! In the midst of an interesting and related problem now actually. I'll post here when our project is finished :)

Let me know if you guys have any ideas/suggestions to make this better :P I'll likely keep adding stuff to it/cleaning up the code over the next week or so. Thanks!

Cool.

An obvious improvement on the animation: methods for applying moves to a board, instead of having to enumerate a explicit array of boards.

Yeah, I actually completely realized that after i programmed the first one, i'll be sure to change that asap.

Though, I am curious. I was considering for animations, only storing "moves" vs "complete states", but I ran into the issue of sometimes a state change may not involve "moving" a piece (i.e. in Go, you place pieces, and sometime pieces my disappear, or in Othello, you make a move and and other pieces may be flipped.) While I could create different animators for each of them. I continued to use the method of transitioning through states for simplicity. Though I will still put some more thought into a good way of doing this as I still plan on growing this library quite a bit. :)

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