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From: bill@dual.UUCP (Bill Kanawyer)
Newsgroups: net.games.go
Subject: Re: Notation convention - I'm new at this.
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 15:45:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 15:45:34 1984
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    Ok I get the idea. I agree that the board, as I have posted it, is too
busy and is hard to look at. Any suggestions on how to display the board?
How about just dots? Crosses? Name something. Or better yet submit a problem
yourself using a "new" format.

    In the mean time does anyone have any further idea on the "best" means of
transmitting a move between to computers? I work mainly in 'C' and so like the
idea passing information in a structure such as:

struct record
{
    short	row;
    short	col;
    char	note[MAXLENG];
} game[MAXMOVES];

This suffers from the problem of NOT being ascii. Thus it is not human
readable. Also it suffers in trying to post games via news etc. Does anyone
know what is being used by the current generation of go playing programs?
Are there any standards at all as of yet. I know some very strong players at
the San Francisco Go club and can ask them about the game its self but...
ask them about computer go and they just look at you funny.

    In any case I will try posting another set of life and death problems
soon, with a new (read, hopefully better) format. Suggestions, as ever, are
welecome.

Bill Kanawyer
Dual Systems, Berkeley Ca. 
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