transferable pente games
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Dec 18, 2000, 9:20 PM
There are several pente games on IYT worth study. However, a computer list of moves is not available from IYT. They have only 1. b w 2. b w etc. A way to solve this problem would be for us to post the games on this site. Perhaps p1 could post his/her game - preferably with commentary. If anyone has any games stored electronically from IYT , especially the later rounds of the tournament/s, or is willing to laboriuusly generate , type and post, please volunteer.
happy gaming, happy
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Re: transferable pente games
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Dec 19, 2000, 7:05 AM
Right, we could keep track of good IYT games by each player saving transcripts of their own games. I have most of my recent IYT games saved from my (new) program as text files in the PGN format. Here are two interesting games I played against codypup in Oct Main #1 Round 2. I have them in algebraic notation as used at PBEM and my program note it does not match IYT! IYT uses the letter i' in the coordinates, but I skip i'. You can cut and paste the list of moves from these games, save them as a text file such as cp2.txt, then you can load the text file into my DOS program for viewing.
Comments: 3. K8 L10?!? I _meant_ to make the standard move of L12 but blundered.
6. L12 M9 L12 puts me in big trouble, I try M9 to maintain the initiative at the expense of the pairs, also poisoning his capture at L9 and preventing him from moving to M9 himself. If I protected with H9, he could kill me with M9.
11. L9* ?? No, the capture is made too early, now I can grab the initiative and save myself! What was his best move here? I give my answer at the end...
Here is a newer Boston defense seen in this round: [Event cp1] [GameType Pente] [Site ItsYourTurn.com] [Date 2000.11] [Round Oct 00 Main #1 Rnd 2] [White mmammel] [Black codypup] [Result 0-1] [WhiteRating -] [BlackRating -] [Comment -]
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Re: transferable pente games
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Dec 20, 2000, 12:02 AM
I have an interesting solution to this problem happy. I am thinking of writing a little program to connect to www.itsyourturn.com and figure out the moves of a particular game. What I have in mind is a filter on top of www.itsyourturn.com. You could log on at say for example www.pente.org/iyt. This shows you iyt's main page, then all links are automatically directed through www.pente.org and when you get to viewing a game, a coordinate list of moves would appear instead of 1. b w 2. b w. There could also be a link to view the whole game in a text file. There are plenty of other things I could add as well. But everything else about IYT would be exactly the same.
Of course its probably illegal, but since I won't be making any money off it, I don't imagine IYT would care.
I have it figured out in my mind how to code it, but I don't know how long it will take. It all depends on how good a job I want to do, and if anyone will use it. So if this sounds like something you would use please drop me a note at dweebo@w...
Also, if anyone would be interested in helping to code it in java please let me know.
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Can someone tell me what it is exactly that the IYT filter does? BTW I love your site, Dweebo.
I am 28 and I started playing Pente about 15 years ago. I got real serious about it and read a few books, but that was about the extent of it. I didn't play again for about 10 years or so, and just recently started playing again about 3 months ago. Thanks to the information made available by a lot of the participants in this group I can learn a lot more and make many improvements to my game. Thanks for the time and effort you all have taken to put various information and software together on your sites. As a past programmer, I know one doesn't always feel like efforts are appreciated.
My interests include Amateur Radio and Electronics, computers (started programming in the 5th grade and I am 28, was also a SysOp of a computer BBS when 300 baud was the standard), pool and bowling (although I crushed my left heel playing basketball on Christmas which put a stop to most of that), and other stuff.
I go by kb9vos, StrykerCC, and HouseDad. I have been beaten by many of you. Thanks for the games to analyze!
Best pente achievement is breaking MMammel's 14 game winning streak on Dweebo's site in a been up too late game in which I got extrememly lucky and he beat hisself!
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Re: IYT filter
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Jan 23, 2001, 11:09 PM
Hi,
Peter's filter is a Java application, you have to have Java runtime environment on your computer to run it. You can download the JRE for free and Peter has a link to it in the instructions for his filter. When you go to IYT thru the filter, you will see the coordinates of every move listed on the side in place of the 'b' and 'w's where you can click to see each move. That way you can see a list of all of the moves at once without having to click on every move. Unfortunately, the filter has to click on every move automatically in order to retrieve each move so it will be very slow if you do not have a fast connection. You can send an email to Dweebo or to me if you have trouble setting it up.
-Mark
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Re: IYT filter
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Jan 24, 2001, 12:03 AM
Mark, you did a good job explaining the filter. One other thing I just figured out. IYT has a link that enables/disables the displaying of the move list. If you don't see any move list, try clicking on the link under the board that says (show move list)
Last night I made some progress on version 0.2. In this version I add a link to a text file containing the details of the game (players, date/time, etc.) and the move list. This allows you to easily save the game to your computer and view it in other programs like Marks. The format of the text file is the same as discussed in message #171.
After 0.2 is working, I plan to start downloading all pro-pente games on IYT and storing them in a database. Then I am planning on working with Mark to make a program to view all these games But that is probably far in the future.
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But that is probably far in the future.