[Standards-JIG] Chess Game protocol

[Robert B Quattlebaum, Jr.]

I just wanted to add to this thread a back-of-the-napkin chess  
protocol I was going to standardize but ran out of time:

> A quick doodle of a chess protocol:
>
> -----------8<------------
>
> <!--	Sending player initiates a standard chess game.
> 	"iam" attribute is set to either (w)hite or (b)lack. -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <propose iam='w'/>
> </x>
>
> <!--	Sending player accepts terms.
> 	Board is populated, game is in play.
> 	White goes first. -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <accept/>
> </x>
>
> <!-- Sending player rejects terms -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <reject/>
> </x>
>
> <!-- Sending player moves piece -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <move from='a7' to='b2'/>
> </x>
>
> <!-- Sending player executes a "castle" -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <move from='e1' to='g1'/>
>     <move from='h1' to='f1'/>
>     <castle/>
> </x>
>
> <!-- Sending player promotes his pawn -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <move from='b7' to='b8'/>
>     <promote to='queen'/>
> </x>
>
> <!--	Sending player just gave up.
> 	Game is over. -->
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:game:chess">
>     <yield/>
> </x>
>



On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2006, at 15:30, Michal vorner Vaner wrote:
>> I wrote a chess game client. It works OK (well, not yet fully  
>> finished,
>> but these are just details). So I would like to ask, if it makes  
>> sense
>> to describe the protocol in some JEP and try to standardize it.
>
> Yes, I think it does. I don't think there's much point implementing  
> any protocols and not documenting them really; I was considering  
> writing a decent protocol/JEP for the chess plugin I wrote for Psi  
> (I used something hacky at the time as I was in a hurry and it was  
> a proof-of-concept). If someone else comes up with a nice protocol,  
> I could implement that in the Psi plugin instead (although, as I  
> note jChess is written in Qt4 too, it might be easier for me to  
> just rewrite the plugin using jChess :))
>
> /K
>
> -- 
> Kevin Smith
> Psi Jabber client developer/project leader (http://psi-im.org/)
> Postgraduate Research Student, Computer Science, University Of Exeter
>
>

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