Comments by wdtr2

I just attempted to put in rules for my new game.

In the past with other rules, I did a cut and paste from mspaint.  With this submission, the png appears, but when I hit the submit button, and then check it, the image is not there.   Is that OK?

The paste is in the setup section of the rules.

If you pull up the shogi game, and play against yourself (2 people on same computer).  Eventually you will capture a piece and it will go into your pending drop box.  If you try to drop a piece via a mouse click,

p* <mouse_click_location_on_board>

It does not work for me.  Fergus, can you try a drop piece move and see if it works for you?

Note: if you put the command in the moves: textbox, (manual) it will work.

 

 

This is more of a question for Greg.  How did the 2019 Tournament go?  Who was the winner?

Never mind, I see the comment below. :)

Hi, your bug fix helped, but I am being really fussy now!  A pop-up comes up in CONFIRM MODE saying "Showing Legal moves for <piece> you cannot actually move in view or preview mode Click OK to hide legal moves.  In certain situations a checkbox comes up saying "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs."   If you click that  checkbox - Legal moves (on your enemy pieces) appears to me to get completely disabled."  

No, I do not want that. 

In the past, I was able in confirm mode to click several enemy pieces and see the enemy piece moves without the pop-up.    

I noticed that the url https:/​/​www.chessvariants.com/​graphics.dir/​alfaerie/​strong/​BHalfDuck.gif  is missing the Black and White Half duck, so the chess piece image for the lion is missing.

 

I am happy that you are back.  

Tough Question.  I could see the 2nd move being "pass", and if Marseillas is a mandatory 2 move game per person, it is a strong arguement that it is a stalemate.  You are the programmer to the game, I would pick the one Fergus Likes, and make sure it is mentioned in the rules.

HG:  I took your suggestions and attempted to re-write the section on the promotion.  I think I used the name Wildebeast everywhere, except in the Introduction.  (I can't find the misspelling)  When I wrote the code, I assumed that the Horseman could get to the promotion zone with more ease than a pawn.  I guessed that there would be more promotions in this game.  Can a king and two horseman put a bare king in checkmate?  I will try this and run some tests.  If the answer is yes, I like my promotion rules "as is".  If the answer is no. I probably should fix/adjust the promotion rules.  If you dislike the promotion rule, I am open to suggestions.  I think I have 1 vote from dax for promotion to other pieces like knight, rook, bishop, etc. 

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Wildebeast_9&settings=default

The Tournament of 2019.  Greg is there a starting date?

 

 

Kevin if you want to play against me (Officer Chess)  Invite me.  I'd be glad to run prototypes (tests).

 

 

Reply to Kevin Fox's statement:

The Queen as a royal makes it harder to get it into checkmate IMO.  Making the chancellor royal would make it even harder to obtain checkmate.  Imagine the queen on rank 8, and 2 enemy rooks on rank 8 and 7.  The queen can attack the rook on rank 8, and the rook on rank 7 is acting as a barrier so that the queen must stay on rank 8.  If the rook on rank 8 is protected it is checkmate.  If we replace the queen with chancellor, the chancellor can escape with a horse movement to rank 6.  I think if you made the chancellor a royal, a lot of games would be drawn, due to lack of pieces to make a check, or the 50 move rule.  A royal chancellor has an improved ability to escape and move out of checkmate.

 

On the web page:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/logs.php?gamecmp=eq&game=&age=252460800&stat=ongoing&logcmp=eq&log=&tcmp=eq&tourney=&sort=priority&userid=&submit=Submit

You can seen all the active and Invatations.  I noticed that there a few or several games that no one has made a move in over 100 days.  It might be too much work ... perhaps we can make a rule for untimed games ... If you do not move in 100 days, you loose that game. 

For the most part 99.9% of the people here are dedicated in making their moves in a timely fashon.  Once in a while a person starts to loose and rather than resign they leave the game in limbo waiting on their turn forever. 

Based in what I see the record right now is:   the game located at

ubersketch-cvgameroom-2018-71-981

Based on my analysis it looks like andrewthepawn has not made any moves in over 300 days.

It most likely is not a big deal to the web site, but if I was playing someone and they disappeared, it would bother me.  This is not any issue at CV, but me being anal retentive. 

I am interested in the tournament also.  Adding my two cents .... What about Shako-Balbo for a possible Variant?

 

 

The rules have been updated for elephant, cannon, and Pawns.

 

In the picture above the black cannon at f12 is putting the white king in check.  Is that correct for a standard cannon movement? If no, I have to fix some code.  I went to piece-o-pedia and the cannon must jump a screen for the attack.  Am I correct with the following statements:

1) the white king is not in check

2) the black cannon at f12 can not attack anything due to a mess of black pieces in front of it.

3) the white cannon at g1 can take cannon g12

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I think I am correct, but I want to check with my fellow chess players to confirm that I understand the cannon capture move.

 

Thanks everybody.  I think erik, got me the solution.  The "root" cause was my lack of experience with this game!  Resolved.

Thank you.  The issue has been fixed.  Yeah!