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Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jun 23, 2020 07:31 AM UTC:

Well, if I look at your page source, I see this:

<div class="idiagram">
files=10
ranks=12
holdingsType=1
promoZone=3
promoChoice=!P*N*B*L*E*R2*J2*Q3*C3*A3
graphicsDir=../graphics.dir/alfaerie/
whitePrefix=w
blackPrefix=b
graphicsType=gif
squareSize=54
symmetry=none
pawn:p:ifmnDfmWfceF:pawn:a4,b4,c4,d4,e4,f4,g4,h4,i4,j4,,a9,b9,c9,d9,e9,f9,g9,h9,i9,j9
rook::::,
queen::::,
bishop:b:B:bishop:,
knight:n:NmZ:knight:,:1
mamluk:l:WL:camel:,:1
siege elephant:e:FAH:elephant:,
joker:j:fI:fool:,
Chancellor:c:RN:chancellor:,
archbishop:a:BN:cardinal:,
</div>

You should also see that when you edit your comment in source-code mode. (Switching the submission editor to WYSIWYG mode and then back to source code destroys the diagram, don't do it!)

Most of it looks OK, but except for the Pawns, the lists of squares where the pieces should be placed are all empty. You should have something like a2,j2,,a11,j11 for the Rooks etc., but you just have a single comma. I also see no King amongst the pieces. And in the promoChoice string you probably intend to suffix Q, C, A with '1' rather than '3', if you only allow those on the final rank. (Since you have promoZone=3, '3' would be default anyway, and would not have to be specified.)

Also, you defined the piece IDs as lower case, but in the promoChoice string you then refer to them with upper case. There isn't really any reason to define the ID for pieces other than Knight, as by default it would take the (capitalized) first character of the name.