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Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Sep 30, 2017 08:12 PM UTC:

Chess on a Really Big Board uses a Rose, and Golden Age Chess on a Really Big Board uses both Rose and Crooked Bishop. Also, the "j" doesn't work. Writing "jA" or "jD" just gives me a regular leaper.


Improving Typography[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 01:15 AM UTC:

This screws up tables. I think you should revert to the old typography.


sirius628 wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 02:24 AM UTC:

This page has the piece diagram as a table, and the squares aren't uniform. Sometimes they even get bigger or smaller when you move a piece. Also, I liked the old font.


sirius628 wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 04:00 PM UTC:

But right now, the spaces are elongated even if the window is full width or even full-screen!


sirius628 wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 04:16 PM UTC:

That's good, but now the pieces are immovable.


Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2017 02:38 PM UTC:

There's still a few problems. The betza parser incorrectly interperets L as (2,3) and J as (1,3), when it should be the other way around. Second, there's something wrong with my diagram here, because the Knight's initial moves (imafN) aren't darkened. Third, your Four Board Chess and Golden Age Chess don't give en passant rights to the pawn. And finally, I would suggest adding Betza's "o" for cylindrical pieces, in addition to "oo" for toroidal ones.


Tamerlane II. Modern variant based upon ancient large chess variant. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Wed, Oct 11, 2017 03:16 AM UTC:

There's a problem with the King swapping move. It just gets rid of the Prince instead of switching with it.


Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Wed, Oct 11, 2017 03:30 AM UTC:

Didn't the leap color used to be more orange? Now it is almost impossible to distuingish from a slide.


Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2017 02:51 PM UTC:

The king is supposed to move three squares on the queenside if the queenside rook is colorbound. This is so the piece doesn't change colors.


sirius628 wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2017 11:29 PM UTC:
Cool. I agree with switching off the psuedo-check moves. Also, shouldn't the chiral sastiks and chiral aancas be switched? And can the bozos king castel with the chiral griffon?

Betza Notation. A primer on the leading shorthand for describing variant piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Tue, Oct 17, 2017 01:44 AM UTC:

The markers for the U atom are screwed up. Typing in U gives weird grey squares with weird pictures on them.


Lancers Chess. chess with lancer piece, lancers instead of knights.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Wed, Oct 18, 2017 02:09 AM UTC:

Le4TNW would win a rook, right?


MSspookyhouse-chess[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Thu, Oct 19, 2017 04:02 PM UTC:

Can you castle?


Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝sirius628 wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2017 11:39 PM UTC:

You're right, promotion should be made mandatory. I will correct that immediately. But leap-capture shouldn't be, especially if it makes a cat move in that direction illegal. Furthermore, the lion in chu shogi, which inspired the move, but not the name of the cat, is not forced to capture a leapt-over piece. And I can remove the single step castling move if need be, I simply didn't know that. I would suggest representing multi-capture using the Chu Shogi notation for multi-capture.


💡📝sirius628 wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2017 11:51 PM UTC:

💡📝sirius628 wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2017 02:36 AM UTC:

Sorry for the confusion. Only the radial leapers can multi-capture. Queen castling is removed now, because it was honestly just changing for the sake of changing, and didn't improve the game at all. You didn't mention this, but King-to-Kraken promotion is also gone now, as it forced players to keep playing in positions that would normally be insufficient-material, but would allow a win through King promotion. I have changed the rules to force promotion of non-pawns. And finally, "not mostly not" was a simple error, thank you for pointing it out.


Diagram testing thread[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Fri, Oct 27, 2017 02:35 AM UTC:

The "almost identical variant" has the elephants move differently from your elephants, however.


Macadamia Shogi. Pieces promote on capture to multi-capturing monsters. (13x13, Cells: 169) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Fri, Nov 3, 2017 12:19 AM UTC:

The written description says that the capricorner can reach any square of its color on an empty board, but the move diagrams says that it cannot. Same with the hook mover.


Test for my new Game[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 02:38 AM UTC:

Pieces promote by capturing a piece of equal or greater power. The goal is to capture both Jeweled Generals.


sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 03:18 PM UTC:

Pieces promote in the order of: Iron --> Copper --> Silver --> Gold --> Platinum --> Jeweled. Do you think that these problems could be solved by adding a leaper or rider? Another problem is that an iron reaching the back rank would be trapped. Currently, I solve that by saying that only the iron promotes on the back rank, and only to copper, but that seems to make the promotion optional, even though I want it to be mandatory.


sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 04:27 PM UTC:

True, but I included the platinum general because I wanted a clear intermediate step between the gold general and the jeweled general. A Phoenix or Kirin would be probably be slightly stronger than a jeweled general, due to it have two square moves. However, I could add a Phoenix/Kirin, pehaps even with the promotions to Queen or Lion!

It seems like this would solve the problem:

  1. Move the iron generals forward by one rank, giving more space for pieces.
  2. Add a promotable Pheonix/Kirin pair just in front of the Silvers.

However, this has no initial riders or oblique leapers. Oh well, there's always some problem with any variant.


MSaldress[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 08:46 PM UTC:

"There was no Alfaerie Elephant-Wazir" Isn't there the chess with different armies Waffle, which moves as Elephant or Wazir?


Refusal Chess. Refuse your opponent to make certain moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2017 05:04 PM UTC:

Sorry to be pedantic, but it's cache, not cash. To address your actual question, you flush the cache via Alt-F5.


Diagram testing thread[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2017 08:14 PM UTC:

Kevin, I don't you understood what HG was saying. First, he was talking about a 10x8 board, and second, he meant that the first bishop was worth 350 cP, and the second was worth 400 cP, for a total of 750 cP, which would actually mean 375 cP each. (cP means centipawns).


Grand Tamerlane Chess. (Updated!) John Davis invented this variation of Mideast Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2019 12:42 AM UTC:

@HG Muller

This is Grand Tamerlane Chess, not Grand Chu Chess


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