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Ashley Nathan Feniello (12k AGA)

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I start my kids out young! :-)

Nathan (18 mo.):

Nathan

Kaitlyn (5):

Kaitlyn

Calvin (7):

Calvin

My wife and I recently visited Japan:

Visit To Japan Wife And I


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What is it?


Arno: a Martian with a single eye?

unkx80: A Go stone on a goban?

Charles Looks more like a bowl with stones, to me.

Nodog: Bird poop on a basketball?


Problem of the day.


I'm experimenting with richer diagram commenting. I'm basically just thinking of inline icons for relating the commentary to points and stones on the board. Ideally, it should be as complete as the diagramming feature itself; containing Black and White stones with numbers 1-10 and with square and circle marks. Also was thinking of having icons for marked and lettered empty points. That's about it.

Black stones: B, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9, B10, http://www.feniello.com/go/icons/BS.gif, http://www.feniello.com/go/icons/BC.gif,

White stones: W, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, http://www.feniello.com/go/icons/WS.gif, http://www.feniello.com/go/icons/WC.gif


Hey coolness! Arno has added the feature to SL!

W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10
BC WC BC WC BS WS BS WS WS BS

Here are some examples of how they could be used in commentary:

W8 extending upward is solid.

Black does not want to play B7 here because then White would play W8 to form the Avalanche shape, so B7 at W8 applies the proverb 'The enemy's key point is yours.'

Also, later Black will have a peep at B1 (followed by W2 connection and B3 extension).

B3 is a big point on the board.

Had B3 been played here, White would certainly tenuki and play W4.

W1 and B Square are miai.

B2 is an extremely good point.

I tend to dislike commentary like:

"If Black b, White is more likely to answer at a, because this gives life with eyes and points. White d Black a gives a seki: no points."

... or worse yet:

"Black 1 at 1 would save the group, but I think Black 1 at 2 or 4 do as well. So maybe White 1 at 2 or 3 can be made to work. White 1 at 3 certainly isn't answered by Black 2 at 4"

I'd rather see separate diagrams.

Some other ideas I've had (but I think are over the top for SL) are further separating presentation from data in SGF. For example, 'macros' in comments to refer to points and stones on the board rather than having markup tags. Then the SGF viewer could decide how best to represent the correlation. I was further thinking of defining a bunch of common comment glyphs (gleaned from KJD and Teaching Ladder games). Things like 'a and b are miai' could become '{miai:Q12,R13}' and the SGF viewer could decide to present however it sees fit. Some may simply display as text (in the language of your choice). Others may use inline icons and display matching markup on the board. Others in the future may even do some bizarre stuff like a 'cartoon balloon' at the point on the board being discussed or a finger pointing at the board while the commentary is read aloud (yeah, I'm dreaming). Also, it could be translated to various languages or represented as a standard set of international 'glyphs' like [ext] Chess Informant does. Even within English you could turn on/off Japanese terms, for example, and choose whether to see things like 'semeai' or instead, 'capture race' in the commentary (I'm sure Charles would always choose the latter :-).


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