Re: spanish approach for aisle-riot

["Richard Hoelscher" <rah rahga com>]

Callum McKenzie said:
> On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 17:55 +0200, Francisco Yuste Garcia wrote:
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>> I would like include my final thesis development in this gnome project.
>> Should I follow some guidelines in order to do this when i finish?
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> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a "Spanish approach", but I can
> give you some hints that hopefully will be helpful:
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Regarding Spanish games themselves, they use a 4-suit 48 card deck with no
"10" cards. Most solitaire games discard the 8 and 9 cards to get a 40
card deck, leaving you with: Rey (King), Caballo (Horseman), Sota, 7, 6,
5, 4, 3, 2, and As (Ace).

What makes this different than supporting, say, German cards (which don't
have ranks 1 through 6), is that you'll need to make sure Aisleriot counts
in order of "6, 7, Sota...". Simply discarding cards 8 through 10 from a
standard deck won't be enough.

When adding those games back into the codebase, Aisleriot and the card
library will probably need to be adjusted to support different types of
decks and themes. (Francsico: This is probably not worth worrying about
until _AFTER_ your thesis project is finished.)

-Richard Hoelscher
http://rahga.com/svg/