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From: scottha@athena.UUCP (Scott Hankerson)
Newsgroups: net.games.go
Subject: Re: go problems
Message-ID: <794@athena.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 03:33:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 03:33:49 1986
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Reply-To: scottha@athena.UUCP (Scott Hankerson)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

Howard Landman writes:
>A few comments: (1) Having played several games of Go via net mail, I find that
>one line per row and two chars per column is adequate.  It also uses only 1/3rd
>the characters of Bruce's format, which lets an entire board to fit on one
>24-line screen with room to spare:
>
>	   A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T
>	19 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 19
>	18 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + O + O + + 18
>	17 + + + + + + + + + + + + + X + O X + + 17
>	16 + + + . + + + + + . + + + + O . X + + 16
>	15 + + + + + + + + + + + + + X + X + + + 15
>	14 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 14
>
>(2) It really helps if the star points are indicated (as above).  Some people
>prefer to use '*' instead of '.', but I find that '.' is easier to discriminate.
>Some people also prefer to use '*' or '@' instead of 'X'.

I agree that the tighter format is nicer, not because it saves space
but because it is much, much easier to read.  I thought that this came
up earlier though and it was decided to use a format that was just the
opposite (as follows):

           A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T
        19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
        18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . 18
        17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . O X . . 17
        16 . . . + . . . . . + . . . . O + X . . 16
        15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . X . . . 15
        14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Personally, I prefer this format because the dots are even less
distracting than the plus symbols.  The star points, again, are
easy to spot.