💡📝Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Nov 17, 2019 12:07 AM UTC:
Well, I don't know. I thought I was getting there but apparently not. Nothing behaves the way I expect and after about 8 hours of screwing around I've reached my limit.
I don't know exactly what the issue is (and there could be more than one) but part of it seems to revolve around the fact that the rules for Bishop moves are complicated, and I've codified them nicely in subroutines "B" and "b", but the architecture seems to want the 1-line fn defs, which don't seem to support if-then-else, and my attempts to have a def B pass off to a gosub B doesn't seem to work either.
If anyone else wants to look, feel free. Boiled down, the Bishop Conversion Rule really isn't that hard. I'm tracking things with 8 flags:
The first letter, w or b, indicates the player. The second letter, c or g, indicates the start file of the bishop. Then there are flags for can convert (which begin the game set) and flags for must convert (which are not set until the other bishop moves without converting.)
Well, I don't know. I thought I was getting there but apparently not. Nothing behaves the way I expect and after about 8 hours of screwing around I've reached my limit.
I don't know exactly what the issue is (and there could be more than one) but part of it seems to revolve around the fact that the rules for Bishop moves are complicated, and I've codified them nicely in subroutines "B" and "b", but the architecture seems to want the 1-line fn defs, which don't seem to support if-then-else, and my attempts to have a def B pass off to a gosub B doesn't seem to work either.
If anyone else wants to look, feel free. Boiled down, the Bishop Conversion Rule really isn't that hard. I'm tracking things with 8 flags:
wccanconvert wgcanconvert bccanconvert bgcanconvert wcmustconvert wgmustconvert bcmustconvert bgmustconvert
The first letter, w or b, indicates the player. The second letter, c or g, indicates the start file of the bishop. Then there are flags for can convert (which begin the game set) and flags for must convert (which are not set until the other bishop moves without converting.)