OpenEuphoria

Re: text file loading

• Posted by jzeitlin at cyburban.com Jul 22, 2002
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:39:33 -0700, weddle at psknet.com wrote:

>Ok, a while back i was working on a checkers program that plays through
>games, anyways the moves are loaded from a text file by Source Destination
>so one move would be: 11 15

>is there any way possible to add another part to define a number (or
>numbers) that was 'jumped' over. like maybe have the text file something
>like:  25 18 [22] (22 being the piece that was jumped..) it would need to
>be able to hold multiple numbers for jumps capturing 2 or more pieces...
>any ideas?

You shouldn't need to.  Because of the rules of checkers, if the source and
destination squares aren't adjacent, it must have been a jump, so the
intervening space can be calculated.  For a multiple jump, I would simply
record each jump as though it was a separate move, with the opponent not
moving between them.

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Jeff Zeitlin
jzeitlin at cyburban.com