Re: Draw chess board

["Zhichu Chen" <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>]

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Hi guys

I've modified my module again, then you can click to demostrate a game. The
source file is attached and the resulting pdf file is pretty huge so I just
upload to my google page (I think there's a bandwidth limitation so I use
winrar to compress it):
http://zhichu.chen.googlepages.com/sgfstack.rar

On 6/11/07, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mojca,
>
> The stones are very very nice now, thank you for your hints.
>
> Since I haven't used TikZ before, I have no idea how to handle these
> events. I'll learn it later and rewrite my module to be more professional :)
>
>
> All I'm thinking now is how to make each step a single symbol so that I
> could use \fieldstack to demonstrate the game.
>
> By the way, I modified my module to do some fieldstack thing, but it gets
> a weird error. I have no idea what's the error about, it's fine when I'm
> using MPdrawing environment but it can't output anything when I switch to
> buffer and use \processMPbuffer.
>
> On 6/10/07, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/6/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've tried to write a test file which can only handle ;B[??], ;W[??],
> > > AB[??], AW[??] now, and I haven't added the interaction part. But it
> > is a
> > > good start.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Wow - that's really, really impressive! You indeed started parsing the
> > strings in plain TeX!
> >
> > I've changed your source slightly, to give you an idea of yet another
> > approach: using TikZ. It's main advantage over metapost might be:
> > - you can draw more fancy stones (see the example - that could be made
> > configurable of course), although teoretically the same could be
> > achived with slightly improved smooth shading mechanism in mptopdf
> > macros
> > - might be easier to backport to (La)TeX
> > - I can imagine your module to be a new, really nice TikZ
> > package/module (that could be used in other flavours of TeX) + some
> > fancy ConTeXt additions (user interface, javascript, ...).
> >
> > The main difference is that you need to store all the variables in
> > TeX, not in metapost, so that part should be rewritten as well (which
> > I didn't do).
> >
> > But simply forget about my stupid comments about (La)TeX for and do it
> > your way now.
> >
> > Mojca
> >
> > (I have some other comments, but it's too early to speak about them,
> > since the module is not ready/complete yet.)
> >
> >
> > On 5/24/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is generally
> > called
> > > Go.
> > >
> > > I know there is some file can store each details in one game:
> > > http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/
> > >
> > > AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt now. I
> > wanna do
> > > this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to tell
> > metapost
> > > the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion?
> > >
> > > BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and it's
> > called
> > > Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best Regards
> > > Chen
> >
> >
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> Chen
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>           Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
>          No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China
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          Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
         No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China
             tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com
                                               | www.sinap.ac.cn
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