> From: Philippe Michel > Sent: 03 June 2013 21:17 > > Do you (gnubg users in general, not specifically Michael or Ian), really > sometimes use a "game" as a collection of independent, setup positions saved > together ? >
Since nobody else has chipped in yet, I'll comment, even though I am, specifically, Ian. I don't do it often, but I suspect that more people would, if they could, easily. I use gnubg for a study tool, at least as much as an opponent or match analyst. The ability to keep a collection of positions together is very helpful. For example, if you are studying holding games, it makes sense to put them in a collection in a single file, Cmark them, and roll them out overnight. As you've seen, I'm trying to study all the replies to a particular roll, and I'd like to keep them together so I can look at them easily without having to load a new file each time. Sets of problems from a chapter of a book are another obvious candidate. Some players, such as Timothy Chow & David Rockwell, like to look at variations of a position, looking at the effects of moving a chequer or two slightly. If you do this in a match, the rest of the match gets wiped. I would like to see the ability to create a variation branch of a match, so you could set up alternate positions as branches without destroying the main path. The sgf format is designed to allow variations, http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/user_guide/index.html#variations, so the structure is designed; the difficulty would be in representing it in the move list. The best idea I've had is to implement tree-like structure from the moves list, with a + symbol to click on when there is a variation available. Player 1 +3. 43: 24/21 13/9 ----set position xxxxxxxxxx 43: 13/9 13/10 -- Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
