Comments by catugo

You mean something like open office?

Thanks for the explanation Fergus, now it is clear to me :)!

How do I save an file to be included in  a preset? I know the proper location, but I have no clue how to do it.

Hei Fergus,

About the anglican bishop, I remember noticing somthing as I had played a few games a few months back. Quite a nice game, by the way.

I almost understand the code you posted although I still have trouble with the order of operations as the instructions:

operator p q , p operator q are both valid, and that is a bit troubelling to me.

I know where to read material on this though. If I still  have trouble I'll then come back to you :)!

If the trouble is just writting initial position code I can guide you through it. You have examples on this wesite with the chess960 preset :)!

There does not seem to be a pocket knight preset :)! Is there one, but I cannot find it?

@Kevin

I live 46 kilometers (a bit less in miles I guess) from the Transilvanian border. I live in the Moldavian district of Bacau which neighbours Transylvania :)! But the interesting stuff was down to the south :)!

Surething!

Thanks :)!

It has been pointed to me that the promotion rules make for the possibility of not having the needed physical material for when playing on physical boards :)!

My stance on that was always that today chess is most of the time played over the internet where physical material it is not a concern as with software you can always "cast" 10 queens :)!

Official competitions are held this way mostly for tradition and cheating protection reasons.

In 50 years physical boards will probably become fringe and understood only to the very curios as is for a modern audience medieval western European poetry, for example :)!

I never liked Christian Freeing's Grand Chess promotion rules. It just makes a good game worse. Fergus Duniho has done better in Gross Chess (the game in the I have in the meantime remember I got the idea of such complex rules) gives the extra possibility, with respect to Cristian Freeling's game, of promotion to more queens, rooks, bishops and knights probably under the pretext that such material is more easily obtainable casually and more cheaply in the market. That is a big help. I will make such rules myself but not because it makes the game better (it does not make it worse and after you read the rules you would see why this practically cannot happen) and I'm not worried about the material as my way still requires plenty of physical pieces, which will make individual boards cheaper, nor will help or hinder eventual clubs who should anyway need to have extra boards with extra pieces. But as a respect for the reach history of the art of chess boards and pieces I will insert the following restrictions:

A player can have at a time a maximum of:

4 rooks

3 queens, knights, champions, siege elephants,mamelukes, wizards and bishops

2 griffins,marshals,archbishops and aancas

and as stated in a previous comment 1 joker

I seem to not be able to find the kibbitzing part on my own games, why?

I had checked older games and I can see them. Maybe a specific one is broken. I see at least a working dozen :)!

Yes, this place indeed needs a diagram as the rules are quite difficult to follow :(!

Hi Fergus,

I don't seem to understand squat out of the griffin code :(!

First I don't understand what "sign -"  does. I'm thinking that it means that both the rank and file must vary by 1 in absolute value. But I don't see the intricacies :)!

The aanca code seems roughly the same albeit for an abs function :(!

I get the same feeling :)!

So when the time please fill me in to some details, please!

Don't worry, Anthony!...

The offers are open for five more days. We can always redo them.

If you are unaware of this material, it would probably help to check it : https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/help.html

I'll be happy to talk you through in in the game chat when needed:)!

I hope everything is fine!... Good luck :)!...

Actually there was an extra error. The first line did not end in semicolon. Now it does :)!

Tricky thing, is that after I have written the semicolon in the proper place, my tests yielded a zero for the first six times. "Lucky" I was confident enough and the 7,8 and 10th test were ones. And that's fine. I just wanted to point out the statistical peculiarity :)!