[ANN] chess puzzles on gemini

[James Tomasino]

On 12/2/20 9:13 PM, Adnan Maolood wrote:
> You could use an approach similar to the one for Tic Tac Toe to avoid
> having to keep track of server side state. There are only so many
> possible combinations of chess pieces. You could encode the current
> combination in a compact binary format and put that in the URL.
> I might give it a try if I get a chance.

Perhaps you could use an FEN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notation

Here's an example from a game I'm playing now:

r3kb1r/ppp3pp/2p5/4P3/3Pn1Bq/4B1P1/PPP4P/RN1QK2R b KQkq - 0 11