Why don't you poll for coordinates in JSON and update the board with javascript?

ie: advance the fifth pawn two positions:

{ move:[4, 1], to: [4, 3] }

     0     1     2
  +---+-----+----
0 |___|___|___
1 |     |      |
2


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I made a chess game using Ajax. It updates the table every 5 seconds.
> The problem is that the HTML code for the table is huge and causes a
> lot of bandwidth. Now I am thinking of a new method: polling server
> for new moves in the game and update only if a move was done. But I
> can't imagine any easy way for doing this.
> What I want to do is: poll the server every 5 seconds and update
> contents of a div tag only if any move has been done. Any help will be
> appreciated.
> Thanks in advance!
> >
>

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