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Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Zanzibar-S&log=bughouse-numerist-2021-2-221
Yes,I believe that game was held before I changed and ticked the box of skipping first move.
Games for Game Courier. The many games you can play online with Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]OK I understand. Shall I mention to report any bug to you or to me? Thank you again for your time and your patience
OK but it is not clear to me.
Step 1 is OK
Step 2 asked to put description and link. OK, where I put the link? Which description? The one I already put on the page describing the preset? It is not clear, I don't understand what I do.
For instance for this preset: https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Teramachy&settings=Default-Alternate
How can I publish it for everyone? Thanks
I have developed GC for the series of my games:
Zanzibar-S
Zanzibar-XL
Teramachy
Gigachess II
Terachess II
How can they get a link in this GC table in order to let people play them? Is it something I can do myself?
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes, indeed. Checking that box has solved the issue. I don't know why I had not checked it in Zanzibar-S whereas I did for Zanzibar-XL. Now, it's OK, thank you.
Hello. I wish someone could help me.
I have made a preset for Zanzibar-S. It works, but I confess that I have not understood everything. We have a game on-going.
Something is strange. The preset asks the invited player if he wants Black or White. If Black is chosen, the invited gets ... White. And vice-versa. Then the game goes normally, no problem, Black put the central pieces (like for Metamachy) and White play the 1st real stroke.
Just what is strange is it must be chosen White in order to get the Blacks.
Can anyone good at Game Courier Preset have a look and tell me what's wrong?
Thanks
Shako_Balbo. Game with Diamond Shape Board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]My feelings about this game are mixed. On the positive side, I like very much the idea that the variant Shako has its own variant. On the critic side, I am not so enthusiast and I keep preferring the standard Shako. In play, I found that diagonals are too much weighting on the game. I had the feeling that Rooks, Cannons and even Queen were sort of squeezed on this diamond-shaped board. It is not because I lost that I'm negative. I lost because I'm not a good player, I'm not focused enough. No, regardless of defeat or victory the fact is I was sometimes kind of "I don't know what to play", if I could, I would have simply passed my turn as I had the feeling that any move would spoil my game. I think that I would have the same impression at Balbo (std) chess. But I appreciated to have tried, it was interesting to see the difference with a square board. Thanks
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]OK, I see the point. Thanks
Daniel, formally you are right. Nothing in the Spanish text specifies if the King could leap while in check, nor if he could fly over threatened squares (at Grant Acedrex). However, it can be extrapolated that it was the case by comparison with the rules played at (standard) lepchess as reported in other contemporary sources. Allowing that King's jump to escape a check would be anachronistic in my opinion.
As far as Metamachy is concerned, you guys loose me. I don't understand what you say "And the jumped-over piece would then block its protector from moving to the e.p. square to make the capture".
There is nothing exceptional with the King's jump in Metamachy. It is simply to adopt the rule that was in force at chess in several places in the Middle Ages, before castling was adopted. Basically, the King was allowed an initial 2-square away move, including horse's leap, providing he was not in check and he was not passing over a square where he could have been checked. The same idea is still applied for castling, the King must not go over a square under threat either. Castling is a particular case of the King's jump. Plus, of course, the fact that castling gathered two consecutive moves in one, 1) bringing the Rook close to the King, 2) the King jumping over the Rook. That is the true evolution that led to our modern castling.
By taste, I want just to say that having tested to introduce the Nightrider or the Dabbabarider into my variants, I gave up because I didn't like those moves that are so difficult for me to visualize. But, I should recognize that others may like as the Nightrider is among the most popular fairy pieces. One will say that being a popular fairy piece doesn't mean being popular for chessvariants, eg. the grasshoper or the locust, and this is true also. It is interesting to discuss these matters and exchange our points of view. Thanks my friends.
I agree with Aurelian. Personally, I'm not at ease at all with leaper-rider pieces. I had tried a nice compound, colorbound, of Dabbaba-rider + Ferz, but I find difficult to visualise what it does. Even with the Nightrider I have the same difficulty. So, it's a matter of taste, as usual.
Ooops, sorry, yes, same thing
This is probably a question that can be solved by philosophes. Just for fun. A chess variant where all pawns would be replaced by knights. Knights that can be promoted to an Amazon. Possible no? Maybe better on a large board. OK. Then, is the Knight a Pawn?
Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I like this small tactical game. There is a GC preset written by Antoine, long time ago. Alas, legal moves are not displayed.
When I edit the GC preset I don't see any rules, I don't know where they are stored. Is it possible to change and have the legal moves displayed ?
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I realize that my previous comment goes on a general page and then nobody knows what I'm talking about.
I was asking to just edit and rewrite the sentence about the move of the Camel in the rules presented for the Metamachy preset:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Metamachy&settings=default
It is said:
The Camel, a traditional piece from historic variants, can leap to any space at the opposite end of a 1x3 triangle.
"Triangle" is not clear in this context of board with squares. I would simply say:
The Camel, a traditional piece from historic variants, is a (3,1) leaper.
I can't do that change myself. Thank you
Sure, all compound pieces have probably been conceived or imagined long time ago. J.Knappen's Teutonic Knight's Chess used both triple compounds we are talking about. He called them Crown Princess and Archchancellor, names I don't like very much. About the names, yes, there is a Templar in Templar chess moving as Dabbaba or B2. For the BNW, or BKN, I was thinking to ... BiKiNi. Smile.
While exploring the same concept (see Very Heavy Chess), apart from the difference Queen vs Amazon, I have been testing the relative position of BKN and RKN with Zillions. My first idea was also to have BKN on the 2nd row, like in your variant, but then I had the feeling that it is very difficult to develop the RKN. Then, I changed and put the RKN on the 2nd row and the BKN on back row.
Maybe it is because in VH Chess, RKN and BKN are set at the extreme wings, a/l, and not in a more centred position d/i like here.
Proto-Chaturanga. A seminal so-called "indo-persian" game with only King and Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Please delete this old page
Thank you
Shako_Balbo. Game with Diamond Shape Board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Sure, what I wanted to say that it was not saying anymore that I don't correspond to the invitation (so, it was better), but as I was now assigning with Blacks and couldn't start and I couldn't check if it was all OK.
This morning, my opponent who launched the invitation, started also the first move and I have been able to play my first move as well.
So all looks good now. Thanks a lot for your support.
Seems better, but I'm given blacks.
Game Courier Settings Files. Keep track of all the settings files you have written for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would like to delete Zanzibar-S-prov as well
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The move for the Camel is strangely written:
"can leap to any space at the opposite end of a 1x3 triangle"
Can it be changed to write, more conventionally:
"is a (3,1) leaper"
Thank you
Game Courier Settings Files. Keep track of all the settings files you have written for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]How to delete a Game Courier Setting file on our own page? I would like to delete "Zanzibar-S1" that I've made and I don't know how. Thanks
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I have tried. Not sure I have understood what to do. Indeed, I had to guess where to add the image of the preset. Frankly, this process is not easy when you make it once. When I find my Unpublished Submission, it opens the same interface than when I was composing the page for presenting the game, with several frames to be filled. I understood that for publishing a GC preset all these frames are not relevant.
Then I wonder why it is not simpler than that. It could be a simple box to check when one has developed his GC to allow that it is published. Maybe what I say is not possible.
I wish to understand that process as I plan to publish 5 or 6 more GC. Thank you for the help.