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Sky. Brilliant original game by Christine Bagley-Jones. Pieces promote through a succession of odd leapers eventually to a rooks.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 10:03 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

You have to admire a game like this that looks mind-bending to the average chess player, perhaps.

@Fergus: For some reason this game is not showing up in the main Alphabetical index unless I look under "S" - in fact there is no "Sk" symbol for the index currently showing at all(!).

edit: also, I'm not sure the preset diagram (after clicking on link) is correct. In fact, all the finished games of it in GC look broken, perhaps (error code page showing for each game when log clicked on).


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 10:53 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 10:03 PM:

For some reason this game is not showing up in the main Alphabetical index unless I look under "S" - in fact there is no "Sk" symbol for the index currently showing at all(!).

I have added a link for Sk.


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 10:57 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 10:03 PM:

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.


Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 12:17 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Fri Feb 17 10:57 PM:

@Fergus, please look at this.  I know there are a lot of demands for your time but this is a big issue.

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.

It seems any GC preset or diagram designer diagram that has a rank "0" no longer works.


H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 10:31 AM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 12:17 AM:
satellite=sky files=10 ranks=10 promoZone=3 maxPromote=10 promoOffset=2 promoteInside=1 graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=png?nocache=true lightShade=#ffffd5 darkShade=#008a2f rimColor=#3377dd coordColor=#eeee58 borders=0 firstRank=1 midX=2 midY=3 useMarkers=1 newClick=1 tripper::G:edgehog:c2-h2,g1 commuter::AY:monkey:a1,b1,i1,j1 threeleaper::H:butterfly:c1,h1 fourleaper::WX:crab:d1,f1 flamingo::CX:bird2: antelope::NY:unicorn: lancer::DY:mage: root-50 leaper::FXXGY:bird: fiveleaper::DXNY:flyingkingfisher: fiveleaper::DXNY:flyingkingfisher: rook:::: rook:::: king::K::e1

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 06:19 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Fri Feb 17 10:57 PM:

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.

That should be fixed now. In the code for assigning coordinate labels, there was the code

if (empty($ry))
    $ry = "null";

The variable $ry was for the rank label for the rank with the raw number of $y, and it was turning 0 into null. Removing it fixed the problem.


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