Comments by CarlosCetina
Kevin:
I do not know what would happen if the case referred to is met. If you help me explain the answer, I gladly include it in the rules.
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No, not yet. I think Fergus did not notice my report.
There is a bug that prevents comments made when launching an open invitation to be displayed.
I have just issued this open invitation with this comment: "Asymmetric version". But, as you can check, it does not appear on the page where players must decide whether to accept it or not.
Yes, of course, use them just changing their Settings Name.
Welcome back and good luck in your aim!
All right, I understand and recognize the effort and dedication you are putting to gradually improve this wonderful website. Thousand thanks for that!
Fergus:
I have troubles with the following three logs:
/play/pbm/play.php?log=sxg-cvgameroom-2017-168-935&game=Chess&sound=true#board
/play/pbm/play.php?log=sissa-cvgameroom-2017-164-189&game=Cetran+Chess+2&sound=true#board
/play/pbm/play.php?log=sissa-cvgameroom-2017-206-203&game=Universal+Chess&sound=true#board
They appear listed on the Game Courier Logs Table indicating that it's my turn to move but REALLY it's my opponent's turn to move. For a strange reason, when I made and send the moves, the action was not completed correctly.
I would appreciate you to take a look at this problem. Thanks in advance.
Remember that Wildebeest preset has no enforced the rules.
Fergus:
Please take a look at the following two logs that are broken, I can't make any move.
log=sxg-cvgameroom-2017-150-680
log=sissa-sxg-2017-168-829
Thanks in advance.
Greg: Could you please to post here the URL of the preset? It is not available from the "Related" menu and I would like to invite sxg to playtest his invention. Also please check the preset's "Exclude Pieces not in Setup" box. Thanks!
You are welcome, Greg, and thanks to you too for staying firm in leading of this enterprise.
I would like to clarify that the fact that I agree with Fergus's idea of carrying out a pre-selection of variants does not necessarily imply that I am against your proposal, because this last is already a selection; I consider that the choice you have made is quite general and serves well to the goal of consolidating a tournament format that in the future will become the main here in Game Courier. For me the important thing is that your initiative goes ahead and I fervently hope that the 8 people who have expressed their interest in participating remain united and bring the event to a successful conclusion.
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Sorry, I forgot to include Diamond in the 5th category.
5. Cylindrical, Circular, McCooey, Glinski, Diamond
[A bug in the text editor prevented me from editing my previous comment.]
OK, these are the mine:
1. FRC, Berolina, Switching, Extintion,, Marseillais
2. Xianqgqi, Jangii, Makruk, Shogi
3. Capablanca, Janus, Victorian, Embassy, Grotesque
4. Unicorn Great Chess, Opulent, Grand, Omega, Eurasian
5. Cylindrical, Circular, McCooey, Glinski
6. Shatranj, Courier, Los Alamos, Grande Acedrex, Chu Shogi
7. Pocket Mutation, Alice, CwdA, Wildebeest, Ultima
Deep down I do not disagree with you, Fergus, what happened is that my mind stayed fixed only in the part where you said "...tournament results are more meaningful when participants play the same games as each other", but for nothing I am against a process of selection of variants to play; I only suggested a possibility.
Now Greg has the floor. What's next?
It's good news that with Jarid we are 6 now!
I agree with Fergus.
Given that we all have certain favorite games, I think the easiest way to reconcile everyone's interests is to adopt a Potluck Single Round Robin format, in which each player choose and brings a unique game. Let's see with an example how it would work. Right now we are 5 participants: Fergus, Greg, Nick, Aurelian and Carlos. Let's suppose that the choice of each one is thus:
Fergus(F): Eurasian Chess(EC)
Greg(G): Opulent Chess(OC)
Nick(N): Mimic Chess(MC)
Aurelian(A): Apothecary Chess 1(AC1)
Carlos(C): Symmetric Chess(SC)
Then
F [driving Black side] would play EC vs G, N, A, C
G [driving Black side] would play OC vs F, N, A, C
N [driving Black side] would play MC vs F, G, A, C
A [driving Black side] would play AC1 vs F, G, N, C
C [driving Black side] would play SC vs F, G, N, A
If the total number of participants were greater than or equal to 10, then we could form 2 groups, and the winners of each group would face a final second stage.
What do you all think of this idea?
I am willing to participate in a tournament regardless of its format, as long as it be possible that the own variant that one proposes does not have to be necessarily with reinforced rules.
It is important and worthwhile for Game Courier to permanently have at least one annual tournament [say "by default"], so I really appreciate the effort and dedication you, Greg, are undertaking.
It is very rare that anyone here at GC wants to play in private mode. All games in progress are public and you can access any of them from the main page: Game Courier Games Logs.
By the way, one question and one suggestion:What happens if players forget to drop the Joker within the established period? Is there any kind of penalty?
At your presets you should check the "Exclude Pieces not in Setup" box, since [as Greg said] "otherwise, every time the page loads, it loads hundreds of pictures". Don't forget to SAVE the action immediately.OK, ready, I have just edited 2 new presets using the symbolic piece set.
These are theirs links:
The old ones using the "alfaeri many" set are these:
Thanks again, Greg. By the way, would you like to play a game of AC1 with me?
Very good, Greg, thanks. What is the URL of said piece sets?
Aurelian:
Don't worry about to merge databases because Game Courier already is doing it since it records games based on its primary names; our presets differ only in its settings names, so there is no problem.
There is no way to customize your presets [using the Customize button] in such a manner that the result be the presets proposed by me, but this is not a big problem: when you post your presets, you could create at the corresponding user submission page a link towards "my" presets, leaving the players the choice of which one to use.
The icons that are most difficult for me to visualize how theirs respective pieces should be moved are the Champion and the Wizard, but I have found another solution: I will make a clone of each of the two games that are in progress in which we are using your presets, in such a way that I will do my analysis on the clones [which will use "my" presets] and, once I have decided what move I am going to do, I will replicate it in the matrix game. That's all... simple like "good morning!"
Thank you for attending my suggestions.
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I'm OK with it too.