Re: [pbmserv-dev] Power of Two

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Lyman Hurd wrote:
> I am looking for ideas about how best to express the
> board and notation for the game pictures below.
>
> http://www.gamepuzzles.com/powerof2.htm
>
> [rules]

Do the newly placed pieces cause cascades? i.e. if it forms a pair with
yet another piece.

> There
> are 64 intersections and they can be organized into an
> 11x11 griod with some warping.

As long as you can warp it into a grid, you can use the rc-rc notation.
and add +rc or :rc for new pieces.  (a1-b2:a2)

> As you can see, the board is not exactly
> ascii-friendly.  One could go for a highly stuylized
> version and then rely on an external web interface
> (much as I, for one, play Trax now), or we could break
> tradition and send an image with the board.

I would recommend sending an ascii image, however ugly.  I don't want that
tradition broken.

However, I see no problem with sending something better in addition.
My preference would be to store the picture on the game server, and
just send a link to it in the email.

> (with the good graces of the inventor, Richard and my
> fellow developers) simply because I own it, enjoy
> playing it but don't have enough local opponents.

Sounds like the best of motivations to me!