Conference turris::languages

I wrote a program in Lisp to play the game of Laskers.  The program was 
coded in 1966, but the language hasn't changed very much since then.  I 
gave my listing to Bob Surtees if you're interested.
    John Sauter

	You might get some more responses if you asked in the Lisp notes file:

	    BACH""::SYS$NOTES:LISPNOTES.NOT

		<_Jym_>

	Thanks very much for the information.

           Re/Edward

Re: .1

You mean there REALLY is a game called Laskers?  I thought that some of the
people here in CAD (then in the Mill) were just making it up as they went.

If this is the game I think it is, you play it on a checker board, can move in
any diagonal direction, and when you jump one of your opponents pieces, you
remove his top piece, right?

We've got a neat version (written in Bliss) that does nice things with
VT100 "graphics".  The author was Adrian Hlynka, now with Nautilus CAD.

	- Barry

According to the instructor who gave us the assignment, the game was 
invented by the Chess champion E. Lasker.  (I can't spell his first name.)
You are correct: the rules are the same as checkers except that when you 
jump the top checker of the piece you jump becomes your bottom checker.
That may cause the color of the piece to change, and/or change it from a 
man to a king, or vice versa.  Some additional rules caused by this: a 
piece moves based on the color etc of its top checker; a king cannot 
jump a piece and then immediately jump back over it in the same move 
(multiple jump).

Needless to say the strategy is different from checkers.  Any chance of 
making the program available on the net?
    John Sauter