Hi all,

I've just made a prototype board for Slither.
Check it out “here”:http://slither-board.appspot.com

It's pretty raw yet (you might likely need to reload the page first time…) and doesn't enforce the rules, but hey, it's an early release.

Hopefully it'll be useful.

very nice! Thank you much…. Maybe you should send a message to the webmaster and he might put a direct analysis link on every slither game page…

I followed your suggestion, thank you.

Nice, thank you!

Could you please add something to remind the directions as for an old game it is not always obvious?

Also I need a button for the arrows because apple devices are known not to have arrow keys (nor keyboard on your page).

Yup, I have a tablet myself, so I'm in one boat with you here.
I plan to add both features in the next version.

this is very useful, thanks!

I don't mind if the script doesn't enforce rules (my goban doesn't either), but apple device support would be great.

That's awesome. I had no problem with it (on Firefox on a laptop).

Oops. That should have been “William Fraser” commenting above. I'm “just a bot”.

I clicked the 'GAME FROM LG' button, and got an error msg
is this implemented yet?

Thanks

maybe it doesnt work from Chrome?

You have to copy the link of your game and then press “game from lg” … this is working with chrome.

You could ask the webmaster to add a direct link as for the other games !

Thx for your work.

PS: What about your bot alihv ? (-;

Game from LG in Firefox just gave me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 1535, in __call__
rv = self.handle_exception(request, response, e)
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 1529, in __call__
rv = self.router.dispatch(request, response)
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 1278, in default_dispatcher
return route.handler_adapter(request, response)
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 1102, in __call__
return handler.dispatch()
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 572, in dispatch
return self.handle_exception(e, self.app.debug)
File “/base/data/home/runtimes/python27/python27_lib/versions/third_party/webapp2-2.5.2/webapp2.py”, line 570, in dispatch
return method(*args, **kwargs)
File “/base/data/home/apps/s~slither-board/1.369876600535960049/board.py”, line 45, in get
game_id = re.search('[0-9]+', url).group(0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

I'm just doing it right now with firefox, it is definetly working well.

It is working well on firefox 25.0.1. I have been looking forward to have such site for so long, BTW. I used to use GIMP for game analysis…

I noticed that it is possible to place an incorrect move with diagaonal connection. Would it be hard to prevent it?

Will you soon play again here na_wspak ? (-;

You shall never know the hour ;)

> Game from LG in Firefox just gave me:
Well, it shouldn't happen if you paste the game URL or ID in the text box before pressing the button. I'll fix that when I get my hands on it.

> Would it be hard to prevent it?
Thanks na_wspak. It wouldn't be hard.

> What about your bot alihv ? (-;
I haven't worked on it since then. Hmm, maybe I should have another look.

It would be nice :P

Here's a little something that could get rid of that URL copy-pasting depending on your browser.

For Firefox, here's a script for the GreaseMonkey extension:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/186355

However, it doesn't work in Chrome and I don't know why. But if you bookmark this URL:

javascript:window.open(“http://slither-board.appspot.com/board?url=“+encodeURI(document.URL));

then you can press the bookmark to open the board. Wastes bookmark space though, so it's not a perfect solution.

Great job, alihv! Beautiful and smooth. One suggestion: when a stone slides, it often passes below other pieces on the board. That looks a bit weird. I think it would be better if it always passed over them.

I've created an alternative at http://www.trmph.com/slither/board.

Here's a sample game imported from LG:

Very nice board, thanks, z! It seems there is still a slight problem when performing the moves (maybe it's meant that way, but I doubt so): one can slide more than one stone before dropping a new one.