You Won't Get Her Back

ParserComp entry for 2022. You don't need to know the rules of chess to play this. I hope it's entertaining--it's based on a classic puzzle but hopefully has narrative.

This is a relatively well-known endgame puzzle I tried to add a story to. The parser is ... experimental, so if something is broken, I want to know! You can take a transcript with TRANSCRIPT or report issues at https://github.com/andrewschultz/you-wont-get-her-back.

Update 1: (7/1 5 AM Central) Wade Clarke (http://wadeclarke.com, http://wade-clarke.itch.io) found some bugs very quickly. They involved row/column display and misleading hints and also that "w" had been superseded by "w [x]", the column width adjusting feature added on the final day. These were trivial fixes, and I feel silly I missed them, but they're in now. There was also a problem with double-printing the starting board if you got two achievements at once.

Update 2: Wade and Olaf Nowacki (https://fumbaloaoa.itch.io/) followed up with even more useful tweaks! They include row labeling and some debug code being removed and a case where text was printed twice.

There will be more. Someone actually reported bugs at the github site, and I'll want to fix them ASAP!