On 4/23/2016 2:33 PM, Matt Wheeler wrote:
This is still backwards to me. It prevents your classes from being
suitable for restoring a stored game state, not just custom starting
positions (which I think is what Ethan means by custom setups).
I haven't thought that far about saving the game state. I'm under the
impression that pickle (or something else) would save and load the
instantiated object of each piece. If that's not the case, I'll change
the code then.
The sanity check does have an exemption for pawn promotion, where a pawn
reaching the other side of the board can be promoted to another piece
(typically a queen). I played Sargon II chess on the Commodore 64 for
five years as a teenager. The worst game I ever won was when the
computer had nine queens on the board. I thought the computer was
cheating outrageously but a chess rule book confirmed that promotion was
a legit move.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(chess)
If I need to add an exemption to custom plays, I'll add it then. Right
now I'm cleaning up the existing code from all the bad Java habits.
Thank you,
Chris R.
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