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it is a class project not us trying to emulate the entire game of chess it wont award us extra marks

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if ( condition ) then

return true
else if condition

return true
else if condition

return true
else

return false

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		switch(origin.itsType) 
		{
			case PAWN:
			{
				switch(origin.itsSide)
					{
						case WHITE:
						{
							cout << "deltay: " << deltay << endl;
							cout << "aDeltay: " << aDeltay << endl;
							cout << "deltax: " << deltax << endl;
							cout << "aDeltax: " << aDeltax << endl;
							if( (origin.itsSide == WHITE) && (origin.y == 1) )
							{
								if( ((deltay == 1) || (deltay == 2)) && (aDeltax==0) )
								{
									return true;
								}
							}
							
							else if ( (deltay == 1) && (aDeltax == 1) && (target.itsType != EMPTY))
							{
								return true;
							}
							else
							{
								if( deltay == 1 && aDeltax == 0)
								{
									return true;
								}
								else
								{
									return false;
								}
							}
						}
						break;
						case BLACK:
						{
							if( (origin.y == 6) )
							{
								if( ((deltay == -1) || (deltay == -2)) && (aDeltax==0) )
								{
									return true;
								}
								else
								{
									return false;
								}
							}
							else if ( (deltay == -1) && (aDeltax == 1) && (target.itsType != EMPTY))
							{
								return true;
							}
							else
							{
								if(deltay==-1 && aDeltax==0)
								{
									return true;
								}
								else
								{
									return false;
								}
							}
						}
						break;
					}

			}
			break;

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Originally posted by fugu13:
However, it really isn't the game logic that's important. As we can see from his response, Blayne pretty much gets the game logic, it is translating all that knowledge into programming logic that is the issue.

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Originally posted by El JT de Spang:
I myself am known in some circles for writing long, utterly useless, but perfectly indented, code.

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Blayne, I don't know what what level your class is... Have you studied OOP? Polymorphism and inheritance? Or is this a straight up pseudo-C++ assignment with only functions and scalar/vector object types?

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Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
Coulda swore I posted but we do some OOP, mostly structures/classes/function, next semester we do OOP in detail.

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In related news I think I got screwed over by my partner, he's decided to bail and is refusing to send me the latest version of the project we were working on.

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