Talk:0x88

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Boskovic, B.; Greiner, S.; Brest, J.; Zumer, V. (2005). "The representation of chess game". 27th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces: 359–364. doi:10.1109/ITI.2005.1491153.

A fact from 0x88 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the 0x88 chess-board representation, 8-by-16 boards are used?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/0x88.

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@Wugapodes: Any interest? I studied up to better understand how the chess browser extension should work. --DannyS712 (talk) 23:18, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! Wikipedia covers this a little at Board_representation_(computer_chess)#0x88 method. I'd want to find more sources than are currently in that section though. — Wug·a·po·des 02:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Wugapodes: Do you think this is ready for mainspace? DannyS712 (talk) 16:59, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: I'm not sure, but lean towards yes. I would want the article to provide better coverage than could be accomplished in the Board representation (computer_chess) section. I think we're almost there, but I also wish we had a few more sources on its development history and usage in chess programs. I'll keep researching, but publication norms are very different from mine so I'm a little slow having to learning where to look for these things. Also, sorry that I've been incommunicado for the last few days. The coronavirus situation in my area has escalated quickly, and I haven't had much spare time. — Wug·a·po·des 23:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Publications

Jan Kuipers (1981). Tiny Chess 86 - Een schaakprogramma voor de 8088/8086. Databus 06-81, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
Paul Wiereyn (1985). Inventive Problem Solving. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4
Valavan Manohararajah (1997) Rajah: The Design of a Chess Program. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2 » Rajah

These will probably be useful for expanding the article, but aren't really useful in the article unless used as citations. — Wug·a·po·des 04:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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[https://wannabe.guru.org/scott/hobbies/chess/ Monsoon/Typhoon Homepage] by Scott Gasch

Link looks fine, but matches the local spam blacklist. --DannyS712 (talk) 05:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:05, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in the 0x88 chess board representation, 8x16 boards are used? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20130212063528/http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/boardrep.html

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Michelle Leslie
Comment: Script to check length seems to be failing

Created by DannyS712 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:33, 23 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

@DannyS712: Just a comment. Hooks need to have the article linked in them, please could you rephrase the hook to include the article's name? Cowlibob (talk) 12:21, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot that bit, fixed --DannyS712 (talk) 14:53, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: The DYK check doesn't work, but article is no doubt long enough. Created in time, QPQ done, hook is interesting. Copyvio is down, but I'm assuming no issues. However, a citation is directly needed in the article for the claim "In the 0x88 board-representation the layout is spread out to cover an 8-by-16 board." Let me know with a ping when this is done. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Don't forget to share a Thanks ♥) 03:07, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nice4What: Done added a ref to that paragraph --DannyS712 (talk) 03:10, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: Could you point to me as to where in the citation it says that? Also, place the reference right at the end oof the sentence that makes the claim. I'm noticing now that the works cited and references are separated when they shouldn't be; that might need some cleaning up. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Don't forget to share a Thanks ♥) 03:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nice4What: See under "0X88 board representation" - "you will see that the board looks like this" --DannyS712 (talk) 03:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The reference is at the end of the paragraph because it is the source for the entire paragraph; the works cited is split per Help:Shortened footnotes --DannyS712 (talk) 03:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I understand about the citations. However, that's not a direct citation about the 8x16 board. We'd be making our own interpretation that that would be an 8x16 board. Is it possible to find another source then? Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Don't forget to share a Thanks ♥) 03:20, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean about interpretation - it is shown in an 8x16 layout with the description that it is the board --DannyS712 (talk) 03:52, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The citation doesn't have an explicit description of the board, just a diagram that we must interpret on our own. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Don't forget to share a Thanks ♥) 12:04, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, with the source explaining the layout, which is presented as a template, this should be good to go. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Don't forget to share a Thanks ♥) 12:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]