Piece sight outside legal moves? #70
Description
Hello,
I am trying to convert a Position to a network graph of attackers/defenders so that I may measure centrality with gonum/graph.
I can accomplish this if I can, for each occupied square, retrieve what a piece "sees". In the case of the pawn this would cover left/right diagonal from the pawn's square (not picky about en passant). This would allow me to easily build a network graph.
Is this currently a feature? Looking at legal moves is insufficient because I want defender pieces as well and not consider status of check.
Currently if forced to implement based on what I know, I'd retrieve a pos.Board().SquareMap(), switch on piece, and in each case of the switch calculate the sight manually after converting the square to an integer or some such.
If this requires a new feature being added, I need it bad enough that if you can point me in the right direction I'd maybe contribute it myself as I need to implement it anyways!
Take care,
Autumn.
Labels: feature request, question