Comments by CarlosCetina
Checking my inbox mail I see that the last email received from this website was last December 26.
UC-170-13. Universal Chess version featuring 170 different kind of major pieces and 13 different kind of pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would not doubt that Alpha Zero could be invincible playing this variant, which would be something very good for simple defective mortals like us; it would be great if we could use it to spend some of our free time trying to beat it.
With the advent of mobile devices and thanks to Fergus' masterpiece, Game Courier, it is now possible for two people to play face-to-face a game of this variant, each of them seeing the board in their respective device.
Game Courier Tournament 2017. Chess Variant Tournament played on Game Courier in 2017.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Congratulations Vitya for such an overwhelming victory!
Thanks Greg for organizing the event. I enjoyed it greatly. There will be a 2018 edition?
Game Courier FAQ. Answers to various questions about Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I believe that the Russian user named Сергей Бугаевский is boycotting the open invitations since he accepts them all indiscriminately choosing to always drive the black side and after the first player makes his move he never responds. I suggest forbidding him access to Game Courier.
Please do not accept my invitations for playing Symmetric Chess.
First of all, you should stop accepting open invitations until you have learned the proper functioning of making moves in Game Courier.
By other part, what happens in your Opulent Chess game versus Greg? Why do not you make there the second move, if you could already do the first?
Why did you take the black side in the invitation I made you to play standard chess, if I asked you to take the white side?
Did you already send Fergus the screencast of what you are doing to his yahoo email he requested?
I will send you another invitation for playing Chess and again please choose white side and try to make your first move.
OK, then let's wait for his answer. Why did not you send it to his yahoo account?
You do not need to have an account there to send an email to someone who does have an account.
I'm waiting for you to accept the invitation for playing Chess that sent you almost two hours ago and make your first move.
There's really little I can do to help you, so let's wait for Fergus' response.
There is no doubt that this case is totally atypical and very difficult to solve!
Why do not you try to create another account here in Game Courier with a different username and email? You could also create an email account in Yahoo.
@Aurelian
Click here: https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=36867
Game Courier Tournament 2019. Chess Variant Tournament to be played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hello Greg.
Please sign me in at the event. Certainly Symmetric Chess is the variant that I would propose as my favorite.
Thanks for the organization!
Symmetric Chess. 
Variant with two Queens flanking the King and Bishops Conversion Rule. (9x8, Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Today, five years after having released this variant, it’s opportune to recapitulate what has happened and make a sort of balance.
There are 119 finished games recorded in the Game Courier database, of which 114 are games that I played with different opponents, while the remaining 5 were played by other people (although some of these 5 are plaged with illegal moves).
1 Сергей Бугаевский – per hommerberg [per31-cvgameroom-2018-230-424]
2 Сергей Бугаевский – per hommerberg [per31-cvgameroom-2018-230-425]
3 Play Tester – per hommerberg [per31-cvgameroom-2018-235-544]
4 per hommerberg – Play Tester [per31-cvgameroom-2018-247-532]
5 per hommerberg – Aurelian Florea [per31-cvgameroom-2018-342-417]
My performance against my various opponents is the following:
|
|
Total Games |
Wins |
Draws |
Defeats |
|
|
1 |
Kevin Pacey |
33 |
5 |
10 |
18 |
|
2 |
Vitya Makov |
13 |
10 |
0 |
3 |
|
3 |
Сергей Бугаевский |
11 |
10 |
1 |
0 |
|
4 |
wdtr2 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
Aurelian Florea |
8 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
|
6 |
per hommerberg |
8 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
|
7 |
Bogot Bogot |
5 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
|
8 |
Jeremy Hook |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
9 |
Jarid Carlson |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
10 |
Colin Weaver |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
11 |
José Carrillo |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
12 |
Jeremy Good |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
13 |
sxg |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
14 |
Gary Gifford |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
15 |
Joe Joyce |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
16 |
Nick Wolff |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
17 |
erik |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
18 |
Pat Quexionez |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
19 |
DJ Linick |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
20 |
Sagi Gabay |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
21 |
xxman |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
22 |
Vitaly Rabitz |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
23 |
Bn Em |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
24 |
Николай Сокольский |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
25 |
Kacper Rutkowski |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
T O T A L |
114 |
80 |
12 |
22 |
|
In view of the little interest that there is in chess variants, I would say that 119 games in 5 years is not so bad; they are almost 24 per year, that is, 1 every 15 days!
Anyway, in order to attract more fans I just created a channel on YouTube where I will regularly upload videos showing games that have been played here in Game Courier so that viewers can easily and conveniently see in a few minutes the full development of a game. For optimal viewing I recommend see them in full screen mode. I have started with the first two games of the long and endless match that I have with my dear friend Kevin Pacey.
Symmetric Chess. Play chess with a couple of queens flanking the king.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Aurelian
Please note that the pair of personal invitations you gave me recently
Modern+Chess&log=-Vernon+Parton-2019-159-445
Symmetric+Chess&log=-Vernon+Parton-2019-159-446
were wrongly addressed to a Game Courier user that does not exist: carlos cetina (with lowercase initial letters).
I am registered as Carlos Cetina (with uppercase initial letters) and userID: sissa.
Such logs are not listed in my "Your Games on Game Courier" page.
Now then, regardless of this random fact, I'm sorry to tell you that I'm currently focused on promoting the Symmetric Chess only; and, for reasons of time and energy savings both physical and mental, I have decided not to play other variants except those included in the current tournament.
So my dear friend, send me all the invitations you want as long as they be of Symmetric Chess!!!
Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There is a bug that prevents to make 66... Qxj3#
A message appears saying "Syntax Error on line 673 ..."
Fergus:
To help you spot the bug that is in our Colossus game here is part of the program:
Syntax Error on line 673
658 MOVE: r i3-j3 659 postauto2 660 moveindex 146 661 MOVE: B h1-j3 662 postauto1 663 moveindex 147 664 MOVE: q g3-j3 665 postauto2 666 set posvar join "b" join fencode boardflags 667 if >= var #posvar 3 668 say Three Times Repetition! Drawn Game! 669 drawn 670 elseif sub stalemated #K 671 if sub checked #K 672 say Checkmate! Black has won! 673 won: else: say Stalemate! The game is drawn. 674 drawn 675 endif 676 elseif >= #nopvc 100 677 say Fifty Moves Without Moving a Pawn or Capturing! Game Drawn! 678 drawn 679 elseif sub checked #K 680 say Check! 681 endif 682 end
I understand the problem is the two points after the "won" word.
Game Courier Tournament 2019. Chess Variant Tournament to be played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg:
I think we could start the next round since the result of my Colossus game vs Fergus is practically decided, regardless of the bug in the preset program.
Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hi Greg,
I could already make the move.
Thank you very much!
Bishops Conversion Rule. Rule for variant where bishops start on equal colored squares, with sample games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hi Greg:
The wording is from Hans based on the info I sent him by email and I admit that it can be somewhat confusing because I really had not considered the possibility that you refer until Mike Nelson pointed out it in a comment wrote on Oct 21/2002.
My answer is that said remaining bishop would have FREE CHOICE to be converted or moved normally according to the color of the square in which it is placed.
25 comments displayed
Permalink to the exact comments currently displayed.
Me neither get email alerts from this website since some time ago (don't remember exactly from when, 3 or 4 weeks). It would be useful to know if there are more people who are experiencing the same thing.