Re: [pbmserv-dev] Suggested Improvement to Quoridor

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

I agree, although I would like to propose "F", "B"
(forward/back) instead of up/down?

Lyman

--- Randall Bart <barticus@att.net> wrote:
> I really dislike playing Quoridor when going
> southwards, because while 
> going upwards is logical, calling up "South" is not,
> except to the 
> Chinese.  Unless we can arrange to only have Chinese
> players going in the 
> southward direction, I suggest a solution.  I
> believe this exact same 
> solution was proposed for another game, though I
> don't recall which game, 
> and I don't know what became of the suggestion.
> 
> Add four new commands:  U, D, R, L.  These are
> synonyms for N, S, E, and W 
> when you are going playing O (northbound) and
> synonyms for S, N, W, and E 
> when you are playing X (southbound).  The program
> will convert these, so 
> that move summary only shows N, S, E, and W.
> 
> It looks to me like ten minutes of programming and
> an hour or two of 
> testing to avoid a lot of aggravation.
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