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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Handling ambiguous checker moves


From: Philippe Michel
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Handling ambiguous checker moves
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:50:28 +0200 (CEST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23)

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Zulli, Louis P wrote:

I guess I disagree. The program should not be automatically making choices for the user. (One could include a preference setting that says "Allow gnubg to interpret ambiguous checker moves" or the like, but that would be adding yet another optional feature.) Probably the "purest" solution would be to simply have gnubg reject the move, while popping up a message such as "Ambiguous checker move." This would force the user to make a valid play, without providing information as to what the possible moves are. Another option would be to pop-up a list of valid interpretations and have the user select the one he wants.

This look rather awkward. I agree that gnubg hitting is wrong, but this is because, IMHO, your move was *not* ambiguous : it was the non-hitting play. Now, if there are blots on both intermediate points...

FWIW, there used to be a bug in the import routines where it would interpret wrongly such moves and that was dutifully fixed : if 6/3 was a pick and pass, it would be written 6/5*/3.

In the "interactive" case, I think the interpretation should be the same : if you want to do something in addition to moving a checker (like picking a blot in the process), you should do it explicitly by dragging the checker in two steps.




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