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Boyscout. Moves in a diagonal zigzagline.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Dec 13, 2020 03:44 PM EST in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 11:30 AM:I know you can make a piece artificially stronger by adding extra redundant move adds. I do not know how to make it weaker. The two options I see are (1) rewrite the definition of the boyscout to not add the squares twice - could be difficult, or (2) make all the other pieces artificially stronger with redundant adds.
Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2020 10:56 AM EST in reply to Ben Reiniger from Fri Dec 11 12:09 PM:I am having this problem as well. The home page comes up but click what's new and I only get the background. Something's different about the mobile site.
Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2020 05:10 PM EST in reply to tedav from 04:51 PM:If you mean computer programs that can play it, there are two options I know of. Zillions-of-Games can play it. Also, an older version of ChessV can do it. I rewrote the program from scratch and the new version doesn't support Ultima yet, but you can download version 0.95 here (scroll to the bottom.)
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2020 05:16 PM EST:I need to make a rule-enforcing preset for Brouhaha. Does this support making GC presets with Brouhaha squares? I know there's a function (BadZone?) I can use to disallow moving to the border, but I would need to allow it in the case of a capture.
Sergeant. A combination of the Berolina and usual Pawns.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2020 06:24 PM EST in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Fri Dec 11 03:37 PM:Thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the page.
Fischer Random Chess. Play Bobby Fischer's randomized Chess variant on Game Courier. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 01:39 PM EST:I don't understand this exercise. Game Courier knows what the opening position is or you wouldn't be able to open a log and replay the moves. What am I missing?
The Emperor's Game. Variant on 10 by 10 board from 19th century Germany. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Dec 16, 2020 08:08 PM EST:I have rewritten most of this page with updated information from Jean-Louis Cazaux's excellent new book A World of Chess, co-authored with Rick Knowlton. The previous version had incorrectly identified the author of a book on chess variants as the game's inventor. Additional historical information has also been added.
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 10:12 AM EST in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 06:39 AM:Thank you for the correction. I have updated both this page and the Sultan's Game page.
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 02:28 PM EST:How can I make a King castle 3 squares short and 4 squares long? The l and r modifiers are relative to the player, so it seems I need the ability to specify a different betza for white and black.
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 05:13 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 04:56 PM:Varying the directions based on a symmetry setting is what ChessV does. They symmetries are called rotational, mirror, and none.
But this castleFlip option doesn't help for generating a Game Courier preset, right?
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 06:36 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:10 PM:This is strange. I've put all the contents into the preset, and things mostly work, but a Bishop keeps disappearing. Whichever side to move's bishop disappears!
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game%3DJanus+Kamil+Chess%26settings%3Dstandard
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 09:50 AM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 04:40 AM:Remove the include file and the problem persists. If I replace it and remove the rest of the pre-game code, it crashes "function P is not defined".
I think some game code is definitely being run even by the 'menu' page because it shows this warning:
NOTICE: The setup shown here has been modified from the original setup thanks to running code for this game. If this game randomizes the setup, then you may expect to see a different setup when you actually play the game.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 11:40 AM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 11:33 AM:Removing post-game does not fix it. Also removing post-move also does not fix it. This is a real head-scratcher. I don't understand at all...
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 12:00 PM EST:Oh, ok. Glad you were able to figure it out! I'm going to try to generate the game with the designer again...
How do you remove the King that starts on the board automatically? I don't see any obvious way to remove a piece that has been placed. (General question - not needed for this game.)
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 12:37 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 12:12 PM:Ok, I remade it and the problem is gone and I have castling working the way a I want. Unfortunately, I have a new problem. The unmoved pawn can move up to four spaces. So, I used the Omega Pawn which should allow it to move up to the center. I'm sure this used to work, but now the white pawn can move one square too far and the black pawn ends one square too soon. (In the generated GC code, not sure if this affects the diagram/AI.)
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 01:55 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:42 PM:I don't know how to test that. I tried:
tell lastrank; tell var lastrank; tell #lastrank;
None of them work...
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 02:41 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 02:38 PM:Ok, so lastrank is returning the last file and not the last rank.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 03:09 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 02:48 PM:What you were trying to do was not only not working but was wrecking the formatting of the page so I deleted two of your comments.
What you were doing was trying to place the entire binary data of the image itself directly into the comments. The comments are stored in a database and have a maximum length, which you were exceeding, so the data was being cut off. But this approach is a bad idea anyway.
To post images, you either need to post a link to the image (stored in a separate file) or else use dynamically generated images (such as from the Diagram Designer.) Under the Edit menu, you will see the option to upload files.
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 03:17 PM EST in reply to Greg Strong from 02:41 PM:Hmmm... So I found where this is handled in the PHP code and it looks correct:
case "lastfile": // Returns numeric index of last file
array_push ($output, count($file)-1);
break;
case "lastrank": // Returns numeric index of last rank
array_push ($output, count($rank)-1);
break;
So I'm not sure why this is happening.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 03:20 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 03:18 PM:The menu on the top of the page. Play, Games, Explore ... Edit
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 03:33 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 03:25 PM:Maybe only editors see that. You can to go a game page of your and select 'Upload or Manage Files' from the black box towards the bottom. But that will associate the graphics with the game in question.
But if you are trying to show board diagrams, you should not upload anything. Use the Diagram Designer which will give you a link which generates the picture dynamically so no extra files are stored on the server. This is what Kevin has done for his diagrams. Since this converstion topic is not associated with any page, any files it references will be stored in some arbitrary location and will take up server space forever and we won't even know what they are used for.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 03:37 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 03:36 PM:You're welcome. Thank you for your cooperation to help keep the server from getting more cluttered!
Play Metamachy on Game Courier. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 04:25 PM EST in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:12 PM:The Metamachy games from the tournament don't seem to be affected by this. Perhaps because the matches were assigned.
Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 10:08 AM EST:Everyone can upload graphics, but incorporating them into a GС piece set requires an editor.
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I forgot about the preset H.G. made:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game%3DJumping+Chess%26settings%3Djumping&submit=Edit
Is this ready for me to post? It looks like everything is correct except for highlighting moves that wouldn't be allowed when a mandatory edge capture is available. (It still doesn't let you actually make the illegal move, so that's good enough.)