I managed to find this piece of prolog code in http://bkraabel.free.fr/pages/kmoves_pl.html#top of page <http://bkraabel.free.fr/pages/kmoves_pl.html#top%20of%20page> but I don't know how to read it! Can anyone help me translate that to core.logic so i have a starting point? checkers also move similarly to knights (but just one position at a time)...

% The following 8 moves define all the possible moves a knight
% may make on a chess board, without leaving the chess board. The
% size of the chess board is given by (Xmax, Ymax).

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X + 1 < Xmax,
Y + 2 < Ymax,
A is X + 1,
B is Y + 2.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X + 2 < Xmax,
Y + 1 < Ymax,
A is X + 2,
B is Y + 1.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X + 2 < Xmax,
Y - 1 >= 0,
A is X + 2,
B is Y - 1.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X + 1 < Xmax,
Y - 2 >= 0,
A is X + 1,
B is Y - 2.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X - 1 >= 0,
Y - 2 >= 0,
A is X - 1,
B is Y - 2.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X - 2 >= 0,
Y - 1 >= 0,
A is X - 2,
B is Y - 1.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X - 2 >= 0,
Y + 1 < Ymax,
A is X - 2,
B is Y + 1.

move([X, Y, Xmax, Ymax], [A, B, Xmax, Ymax]) :-
X - 1 >= 0,
Y + 2 < Ymax,
A is X - 1,
B is Y + 2.


Jim

On 11/06/12 01:09, Jim - FooBar(); wrote:
Hello everyone,

I'm trying to decide if its worth writing the rules of chess/checkers using core.logic or go down the conventional road but unfortunately I'm inexperienced as far as core.logic goes. I mean I've played around for a bit but nothing serious.

What I want is NOT AI or anything like that...all I want is to encode the rules of the game somehow so i can then pass a board and a piece to some function that will be able to find all available moves that don't violate the rules of the game - no picking the best move or anything like that...just finding the legal moves efficiently...does this sound reasonable? I'm surprised there are so little on-line resources on the matter!

if someone can explain the advantages and the disadvantages of of doing so that would be fanatstic...Even better if someone can point me in the right direction (some similar project perhaps). I really have no idea how to start and its one of the few times g8ggle doesn't seem to help...

thanks in advance...


Jim

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