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@nelsonic I think that I still have them so I'll have a look and post them here if I do 👍

[RobStallion]

This is what is looks like in master at this point in time...

[nelsonic]

@RobStallion very interesting! 👍
When you next work on this, I look forward to understanding the context of the 10x10 matrix. 🤔

[RobStallion]

@nelsonic Ahhh so feel free to ask me as much as you want about that and anything else for that matter but this particular point was one I really thought about before I started the project and just found interesting in general.

So the reason I decided to go with a 10*10 board was to help with move logic. It seemed like a sensible way to resolve the possible issues that could come up with pieces moving in patterns that they shouldn't.

For example, I didn't want behaviour like this....

Where a bishop could move onto a different diagonal. So the boarder acts as an out of bounds zone. If a piece hits a number in the out of bounds list then it can not move any further.

This could also be achieved with a 9*9 board but then that doesn't account for knight moves.

Take my knight on A3. Knights (as you know) move in an L shape. If this tried to move up one tile and left 2 tiles it would end up on index 40. If the board only didn't have 2 out of bounds tiles in a row the knight would be able to make crazy moves.

Of course this is only a problem for me as I am working out all the piece moves by with simple addition and subtraction, for example, a rook can move in indexes of +/-10 & +/- 1.

I'm sure that there are plenty of other ways that this problem could be approached and solved but this seemed like the most logical to me.

[nelsonic]

@RobStallion thanks for the explanation. I would love to see your paper notes on this! 😉

[RobStallion]

@nelsonic. I just realised I could (and should) have just posted the actual images 😑

Sorry. Obviously wasn't thinking.

Here they are...

[RobStallion]

@nelsonic These are the notes I had for this...
board-notes.zip

[nelsonic]

@RobStallion nice!