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Nactation questions

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 8:32 p.m.

In Response To: Nactation questions (Taper_Mike)

Mike, I have to congratulate you on your patience in keeping up with these tortuous rules. My first instinct was that D would mean two down, but then I thought, doesn't hit/most/six force D to mean 13/8? So now I know that there is an official adjustment to hit/most/six to handle this situation.

A while ago, I had an argument with Nack about the direction that the nactation system was going. In my professional life, I have had a lot of experience with notational systems. Just as an experienced software engineer can smell a mile away when a particular design decision is going to result in incomprehensible spaghetti code years down the line as people struggle to be backwards compatible with a variety of random, ad hoc conventions, I could see at once that if an opening 41 played 13/9 24/23 were allowed to be nactated 41S rather than 41Z, then nactation was inevitably going to turn into spaghetti code eventually. I tried to argue with Nack at the time, but without success. Perhaps by now, people can see more clearly what I was warning about back then.

Messages In This Thread

• 42P-51S-32
  Timothy Chow -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 8:21 p.m.
  • 42P-51S-32
    Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 8:34 p.m.
  • 42P-51S-32
    Stick -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 9:14 p.m.
    • 42P-51S-32
      David Rockwell -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 11:48 p.m.
      • Nactation questions
        Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 12:07 a.m.
        • Nactation questions
          Stick -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 12:09 a.m.
        • Nactation questions
          Dmitriy Obukhov -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 2:07 a.m.
          • Nactation questions
            Taper_Mike -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 7:55 a.m.
            • Nactation questions — Correction
              Taper_Mike -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 8:07 a.m.
              • Higher-number-first corollary
                Nack Ballard -- Monday, 28 November 2011, at 9:12 p.m.
            • Nactation questions
              Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 8:32 p.m.
              • Nactation questions
                Matt Ryder -- Sunday, 27 November 2011, at 6:52 a.m.
                • Nactation questions
                  Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 27 November 2011, at 6:44 p.m.
                  • Nactation questions
                    Matt Ryder -- Tuesday, 29 November 2011, at 4:40 a.m.
                • Nactation questions
                  Nack Ballard -- Monday, 28 November 2011, at 5:43 p.m.
                  • Nactation questions
                    Matt Ryder -- Tuesday, 29 November 2011, at 5:03 a.m.
              • Nactation: S/Z rehash, etc.
                Nack Ballard -- Monday, 28 November 2011, at 5:00 p.m.
                • Nactation: S/Z rehash, etc.
                  Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 30 November 2011, at 7:05 p.m.
                  • Nactation and Zare's position
                    Nack Ballard -- Friday, 2 December 2011, at 12:43 a.m.
                    • Nactation and Zare's position
                      Timothy Chow -- Friday, 30 May 2014, at 3:37 p.m.
                      • Nactation and Zare's position
                        Nack Ballard -- Friday, 30 May 2014, at 8:53 p.m.
                  • Nactation: S/Z rehash, etc.
                    Matt Ryder -- Friday, 2 December 2011, at 7:19 a.m.
            • Nactation questions
              Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 4:36 p.m.
            • Definition of T (sTack, Tower)
              Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 5:21 p.m.
    • 42P-51S-32
      Taper_Mike -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 8:42 a.m.
      • 42P-51S-32
        Casper van der Tak -- Saturday, 26 November 2011, at 9:13 a.m.
  • 42P-51S-32
    Dmitriy Obukhov -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 10:57 p.m.
    • 42P-51S-32
      Timothy Chow -- Friday, 25 November 2011, at 11:17 p.m.
  • 42P-51S-32
    neilkaz -- Sunday, 27 November 2011, at 7:04 p.m.
  • 42P-51S-32 GNU Rollout
    Stick -- Sunday, 27 November 2011, at 10:36 p.m.
  • 42P-51S-32 XG2 RO
    Dmitriy Obukhov -- Sunday, 27 November 2011, at 11:23 p.m.
    • 42P-51S-32 XG2 RO
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 28 November 2011, at 3:21 p.m.
    • 42P-51S-32 and 31P-51S-32
      Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 8:16 p.m.