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Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Jan 20, 2016 07:34 AM UTC:

The interactive diagram is a HTML table with each cell containing a piece image. I don't think it is possible to make circular or hexagonal tables in HTML, so I guess the answer is 'no'. <p> I am not sure what you mean by 'custom boards'. You can define the number of ranks and files. It should be easy to make squares in the rectangular area inaccessible. (I don't remember anymore if that is fully supported, I intended to make that possible by defining a piece with the name "hole", but I don't recall if I really finished implementing that completely.) If you mean boards like a geographic map of the world a la Risc, then the answer is also 'no'. <p> Note that circular boards are topologically equivalent to cylinder boards, and that unrolling the cylinder surface would give you an undistorted view of the board, with periodic boundary conditions. If you consider it a problem that people would have to imagine the board wrapping around at the edges, you could unroll it more than once, diplaying all squares in duplicat.