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Are you the boy's father? Your name matches his father's name.
Hey, Using IE9 I constantly get an extremely annoying hovering menu bar that sits in the top left of each page on the site and does not appear to be removable or minimisable. I believe that it is supposed to activate only when I hover over the CVP logo in the top left, but on many pages it is jsut permanent. This is fine on most pages, though irritating, but on this page it prevents me being able to read or select the top few menu items. Thanks, wOl.
Can you provide a screenshot and more details? Since I have Windows XP, I cannot use IE9 and so cannot check this out for myself.
I have emailed a screenshot for you now. Thanks, wOl.
Have had a lot of difficulty with this site; tried to register as Johnny Luken, but my temp password was rejected as I was told the password was incorrectly entered, which on multiple occasions it wasn't. Have emailed chessvariants.org but to no response. On the tech support link, you're given an email to enter, which is meant to take you to a new link. Why don't you just give me a an actual address to contact like any normal website?! It appears to be [email protected], yet entering this does nothing, and when my email is bounced back to me when I attempt this address. Is this yet another glitch on your website? I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed by how difficult you seem to make it for new people to register, or even contact people on this site, let alone submitting new content and contributing to it. Seems to you are either being deliberately obscure to discourage new membership and input, and maintain a core "clique", or maybe you just don't know how to make a accessible user friendly website...
First, you failed the CAPTCHA on David's address. What you took to be a hyphen is an underscore. Second, you should contact me, not him, about this. Third, this is the same day you posted your message here, and I have still not had breakfast yet. FYI, all the active editors for this site are on Eastern Standard Time and were probably all asleep when you posted.
If something is not working for you, contact me with full details on what you are doing to sign up. I need to know which form on which page you are using to sign up with. Since you can sign in with your Facebook account, I recommend using the form on the right side of the login/login.php page while you are already signed into this site through Facebook.
There was a bug in the code for email registration. We used to use case insensitive passwords, but I changed the code to use case sensitive passwords. For the email registration script, the conversion was incomplete. It was still converting passwords to lowercase, which it should no longer do. So here is what might have happened. You chose a mixed case or upper case password, and when you entered it, it didn't accept it, because it had been converted into a lowercase password, and passwords are now case-sensitive. If you check the email it sent you, you should find your password all in lowercase. Enter this as your password instead of what you originally gave as your password, and you should be able to log in. Checking the database, I see you already have two accounts with us: johnnyluken and jhildluke. In case this does not work, there is also a script for changing your password.
If you're having a problem entering the temp password, I would recommend copying and pasting it. It should be in lowercase already. So the problem I described earlier would not be the problem for you. But if you enter it by hand, you might enter an O where a 0 should be or an l where a 1 should be. Note that the temp password is a lowercase hexadecimal number consisting only of digits and the letters a through f.
Fergus, Password is indeed in lower case. When I enter the temp password (the more recent johnnyluken account) I always receive the error message; "The temporary password you entered does not match the one you were emailed. Please go back and try again." Its the same whether I paste or enter it in manually...
Also tried using my Facebook OpenID to get an account like you suggested. In the data on the right side of the right side of the registration screen, the email entry is fixed (a, different, older, email I used to register my facebook). However when I attempt to register I get the error message "The email address [email protected] is already connected to another account." It is indeed connected to another account, the OpenID account its meant to be letting me register with!
Johnny, I have deleted both of your accounts so that there will be no conflict when you try to register with your OpenID. For security purposes, there are now safeguards in place to prevent new members from using email addresses already used by other members. When you sign up with an OpenID, it will use the verified email address associated with your OpenID. That is why you cannot edit your email address when signing up with your Facebook account. If you are no longer using the email address you used to sign up for Facebook, I would recommend first going to Facebook and changing the email address you use with Facebook. Go to Account Setting/Email on Facebook, then add another email address to your Facebook account. Facebook will send you an email to verify that the new email address is yours. Once the new email address shows up in your Facebook account, change it to your Primary Email. Then delete your old address. Once you have changed your address on Facebook, come back here and use your Facebook account to sign up here.
Hi I'm unable to add my own chess variant (Musketeer Chess) How can i proceed? Best regards Zied [email protected]
Hi Zied, I have given your account Contributor status, so you should now be able to submit your game through the site's forms. (We normally require that a person's first submission be sent through the general email contact; I've found your game through your Person Information page and so have foregone this requirement.)
when it gets posted. That is, to show it as unique CV, there is paragraph describing specific position having
about ten possible moves off the Road (feature of the game) by one Knight.
George, you can still edit and comment on your submissions before they are "unhidden" by an editor. (From the menu under your name you can find a link to your unreviewed submissions, and anyone with the url can get to it.) I haven't cleared that submission yet because (as I said in a comment there) it seems too much like your other Wizard of Oz variants, and I think it would be better suited as a comment on one of those games. (I think you receive an email when someone comments on your game, correct? Does that still go through if the game is still hidden?)
I really need the rules to strato chess.  Please Help!
Have you received my email submission for a variant? I use a Yahoo address, so I was thinking that it may have ended up in your spam folder.
I made a few changes to the symbolic set of shogi. I added a copper general, and tweaked the "flip" so the base color is pink. I feel it might be easier to a new player of shogi to identify enemy vs friends (pieces). I made a zip file and sent it via email to webmaster at chessvariants.com (I think). Is this the correct way to get a new chess set added to chess variants?
I didn't get the email. Try using the address found here: who/Editors.
To keep with the theme already established for my Symbolic Shogi pieces, I added some Copper General pieces using the alchemical symbol for copper. I don't think it is necessary to use color to distinguish Shogi pieces on opposite sides, and with this set, it could confuse things, because it already uses color to distinguish promoted pieces from unpromoted pieces.
Super. Fergus, thank you so much for adding the copper pieces to your symbolic set. :) Now I have to make the time to do the coding. I'm looking forward to using the new copper pieces.
The Yahoo address doesn't work; anything sent to it bounces.
Thanks for pointing that out. Apparently, no one checked the email for the past year, and Yahoo erased the inbox and made the account inactive. Using one of my verified email accounts, I got back into the account and changed the password. Editors who will make a commitment to checking this email account can ask me for the new password by email.
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