Storing Chess Notation

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ptkaisen

Hello, i am creating a chess variant, played in 2 boards, and i am creating to play it by email.

I am trying to find out wich type of notation would you use.

What i ask is what do you have have in your head, other than common FEN, EPD, etc.

How will you do to store a chess positon in a text line?

Note: the game plays in 2 boards, and has drops like carzyhouse/bughouse, and sometimes it will have something like "secuential chess", 2 pieces moved in the same play (like "Nxe5", followed by Qg5+)

thanks you in advance.

Hydroxide

You should probably describe the variant in more detail before anybody can even understand what you need...

ptkaisen

there is no need to know how the variant work ... i just need to know if you have any ideas in how to store chess positions in a binary / text file ... :)

there is a programming forum where i am discusing the same thing

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=36101

DeepGreene

What's wrong with a good old line of FEN (or two lines of it in your case)?

 

EDIT:  Sorry, I should read more carefully.  I didn't notice that you had ruled out FEN to begin with.  (But I'm still wondering why it wouldn't work...)  Cheers.

ptkaisen
DeepGreene wrote:

What's wrong with a good old line of FEN (or two lines of it in your case)?

 

EDIT:  Sorry, I should read more carefully.  I didn't notice that you had ruled out FEN to begin with.  (But I'm still wondering why it wouldn't work...)  Cheers.


Well ... i dont know why not using FEN lol ... i dont really know :(

Sometimes i like to try to "re-invent the wheel" ... and sometimes it doesnt work better than the original wheel :)

well, i want to store the position in the less size possible and for that may be i will need to do something different from FEN, something more compact ...