Re: package proposal: Games_Chess

Fully agreed! After having played a bit I'm impressed. And looking at the source (which is also said to be fully-unit-tested) I'm even more impressed. Greg, you're damn hot crazy :-)) So yeah, I like the Games_Chess-backend-library. Did a cursory source- review. Just one suggestion: Would it be useful for getMessage to be moved to a separate language-file? Then you could come up with separate, additional files for supplying even more languages. Stefan On 8 Oct 2003 at 7:18, Arnaud Limbourg wrote: > as usual with greg this is high quality code. > > The name Games_Chess fits well. > > Arnaud. > > > Hi, > > > > Games_Chess is a fully functional chessboard simulator. It has full > > "knowledge" of all the rules of chess, and can calculate > > > > - checkmate > > - stalemate > > - 50 move draw > > - draw by repetition > > > > as well as parse a FEN (Farnsworth-Edwards Notation) string > > describing a chessboard position, and any SAN (Standard Algebraic > > Notation) string describing a chess move. It can also perform a > > chess move based on the starting and ending squares. > > > > The package has several uses including the obvious ones: > > > > - playing chess against other people through a visual interface > > program such as the one at chess.chiaraquartet.net - validation of a > > series of chess moves > > > > It is fully unit-tested, and has all the tests included with the > > package. > > > > To take full advantage of the package, prior to installation, run > > these two changes to your configuration: > > > > $ pear config-set data_dir /path/to/doc_root/pear > > $ pear config-set tests_dir /path/to/doc_root/pear/tests > > > > after doing this, you can browse to the HTML example at > > http://localhost/pear/Games_Chess/HTMLChess.php, and to > > the unit > > tests at > > http://localhost/pear/tests/Games_Chess/testsuite.php > > > > Source code is viewable at: > > > > > > http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs/__filesource/fsource_Games_Chess > > __Chess.php.html > > > > http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs/__filesource/fsource_Games_Chess > > __ChessStandard.php.html > > > > Package can be installed via: > > > > pear install > > http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/Games_Chess-0.1.tgz > > > > API Documentation at: > > > > http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs > > > > Online demo of HTML chess-playing program based on Games_Chess at: > > > > http://chess.chiaraquartet.net > > > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > -- > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >