From: Tord Romstad <tord.romstad <at> gmail <dot> com>
Date: 27 jan 2007
Subject: Re: First draft of the Universal Shogi Interface (USI)


On 1/26/07, Jeroen J.-W. Tiggelman <jtiggelm <at> xs4all <dot> nl> wrote:
>
> Tord Romstad wrote:
> > *fat bold cyclop* <fat.bold.cyclop <at> gmail <dot> com> wrote:
> > > I think the only flaw of it is, I think, it insufficient for
>  > > storing positions with more than 9 pieces in hand.
> > In my opinion, this is a rather serious problem.
>
> Just use A, B, C, ..., H for 10 through 18.
>
> Using A through F for 10 to 16 is pretty standard (hexadecimal).
> This particular extension seems rather obvious.

Yes, that would work.  I still slightly prefer my suggestion (mainly
because it is slightly more human-readable), but if the other format
is already widely used, it's of course better to use that one.

I wait for more opinions from the Japanese part of the community
before I make any final decision about encoding of positions and
moves.  I still hope to avoid using the multi-line kifu format for
positions, but perhaps it would be better to use the kifu piece
letters instead of the English ones ("FU" instead of "P" for pawns,
"KY" instead of "L" for lance, and so on).   I have no particular
preference here - both are OK to me.  The same goes for board
coordinates:  I don't mind whether we use "1a" or "11" for white's
left corner square.

Tord


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