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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 18, 2020 05:54 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 04:39 PM:

Perhaps it does not update when a post is a reply to another post

It looks like that was the problem. A reply copies the row of the comment being replied to, and it wasn't unsetting $row["CommentDate"]. I just changed it to do that, and I will check whether this reply shows the correct CommentDate after posting it.

Update: It worked. This reply does not have the same date as the comment replied to.


Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Jul 18, 2020 04:39 PM UTC:

Ok, I guess it is more complicated than that since that updated. Perhaps it does not update when a post is a reply to another post ...


Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Jul 18, 2020 04:38 PM UTC:

The shown since Last Comment or Rating is not updating


Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Jul 18, 2020 04:36 AM UTC:

One thing I'm not sure of is why the FIDE organization (for chess) is apparently (still) not given as a link on the FIDE Chess page (CVP website page, that is).

The best justification for the omission I'd think would be that most people learn to play organized chess through their national chess federation first, and somewhere along the way they may get a FIDE rating. Therefore, why give any link for a chess organization, the logic may continue (unlike for Shogi, which is regional to Japan mainly).

Some years ago though, FIDE began to keep ratings for people rated as low as 1000 FIDE. That's about the level of a bright beginner, if it's about the same as for 1000 rating strength of a typical national chess federation beginner player like in Canada, for example. Thus FIDE is no longer about just keeping records for highly rated chess players.


Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2019 06:41 AM UTC:

Problems, puzzles, positions and pieces link from Index page of CVP:

https://www.chessvariants.com/index/mainquery.php?type=Any&category=Singleplayer&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&usethisheading=Problems+Puzzles+and+Solitaire+Games

This link got me thinking about two things: first, there may be many things listed in the Main CVP Alphabetical Index that are not found in this link that apparently should be; I'll give links to two such items here (the first is about Kriegspiel):

https://www.chessvariants.com/link/shChDetectiveBk

https://www.chessvariants.com/link/chess-variants-training

The second thing I thought about was the wild idea that could it be possible that someday there might be an attempt to give universal or near-universal strategic guidelines for chess variants of all sorts (CVP's attempt to classify CVs may help if classes of variants need to be treated seperately as far as strategy goes [that is, if CVs of the same class can all be handled at least to some extent with the same strategic ideas])? Note that puzzle or endgame positions being shown might not nearly suffice for imparting mastery of a given CV.


danielmacduff wrote on Mon, Jan 6, 2014 01:44 AM UTC:
I think there needs to be a chess variant design contest. Maybe a 14-piece, 20-square contest for 2014?  Perhaps something else clever.

Daniil Frolov wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2013 06:19 PM UTC:
Suggestion, that may be difficult to execute, but still, i'll leave it.
"Unusual shape" category should be devided into two subcategories: variants with none-rectangular cells (triangular, pentagonal, etc.) and variants with unusual connection and/or arrangement of rectangular cells (like cylindrical; well, maybe, not only rectangular - e. g. cylinrical hexagonal chess will belong to both categories).
One aspect - for new people at chess variants, who are only getting familiarized with CVs, these categories are probably more comfortable to be in one category, but for these, who already got plunged into world of CVs, this division will be helpfull for searching chess variants.

LM wrote on Fri, Dec 7, 2012 03:16 AM UTC:
fyi I received this message for page
http://www.chessvariants.org/Gindex.html

The menus are displaying improperly, and you are seeing this message
because of a bug in your version of Internet Explorer. Please report this
page so that we can fix it. Also, consider switching to Firefox or Chrome.
These browsers should work better with this site than Internet Explorer
does. 

Yes, it works fine in Chrome.  :)

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sat, Oct 20, 2012 10:33 PM UTC:

I have a suggestion: To add a regular expression search of link description to the "mainquery.php", possibly called "regexplinkdesc". I would find this useful; others who use the advanced search (Tony Quintanilla, perhaps?) might also find it useful. (I already find "regexplinktext" useful, but this would be useful too.)

Also, there is no icon for the "Shop" type (which claims to be an unknown type, although queries for such type work OK); this should be looked at too.

O, one more thing: Link descriptions should be allow to changed in member submission edit index information form.


(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 06:55 AM UTC:
I tried to correct an external link and it doesn't work (it won't save the changes to the external URL). Specifically, Giveaway Chess Puzzle. My domain name has changed from "zzo38computer.cjb.net" to "zzo38computer.org" (this includes my OpenID). Can you please fix this problem?

Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 10:33 PM UTC:
Fergus, Hierarchical Games in the context of the index heading are games like Stratego or The Jungle Game where there is a capturing heirarchy (A can capture all pieces, B can capture all pieces but A, C can capture all pieces but A or B, etc.).  There aren't a lot of these games in the system, but we do at least a couple.

Graeme Neatham wrote on Sat, Apr 14, 2012 04:36 AM UTC:
They need not be team games.  The command/control structure may be used to determine movement of non-command units/pieces.  Have a look at Joe Joyce's Chieftain Chess for an example of an hierarchical game.

Whether or not the term "wargame" is sufficient by itself is debatable.  In the context of CVs it probably is.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Apr 14, 2012 03:11 AM UTC:
Are these team games? In a two-player game, the idea of different control levels doesn't make sense, because each player has complete control over his pieces. In the menu, I have "Wargames" instead of "Wargames and Hierarchical Games." Is anything lost by just saying "Wargames"?

Graeme Neatham wrote on Sat, Apr 14, 2012 02:13 AM UTC:
In game theory Hierarchical Games model conflict systems with a structure of control levels ranked in a certain order.  Thus in a wargame there might be an overall commander, several sub-commanders, and many unit commanders, per side. Troop movements and performance would depend upon the placement and movement of these commanders.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 13, 2012 10:42 PM UTC:
The Wargames category is "Wargames and Hierarchical Games." What are hierarchical games?

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 01:04 PM UTC:
That one was easier to fix, since I already knew where to go. I fixed it by changing the relative link to an absolute link. But I'm surprised by the behavior of the program, because the page the link was on was in the www.chessvariants.org domain.

Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 09:18 AM UTC:
Unfortunately, the fix is not yet complete; here is the Link to Archabbot Chess from the Alphabetical Index section "Ar":

/play/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MParchabbottches

and it now returns a 404 (instead of the home page of the pbm system).

After some hacking, I found the true link which works:

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MParchabbottches

-- replacing "play" with "www" fixes the link.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 01:22 PM UTC:
Okay, I have fixed the missing links problem. It came down to finding the function that creates the link url and changing an if to an elseif.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 12:27 PM UTC:
Joe and David,

I have found a solution to the missing links problem, but it might not solve everything long term. As a test, I deleted the URL from one page whose link was not showing up, and after I did that, its link showed up in the index. So, if I deleted the URLs from items whose URL fields don't point to the actual URL of the page, that should put the links back on the index pages. But before I do this, I wonder if putting fake URLs in the URL field is serving any purpose and if there is code somewhere that will continue to put fake URLs in the URL field.

Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 01:21 AM UTC:
Thanks, Fergus. At least it's narrowed down.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 8, 2012 08:55 PM UTC:

Testing if I can post HTML

Editing file to test new code in usereditcomment.php


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 8, 2012 06:48 PM UTC:
Joe, David has reported that all the affected pages are member-submitted pages, and for these, the URL field isn't necessary. And I have confirmed this by looking at the database. So the problem is with the PHP code, not with the database.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 8, 2012 02:54 PM UTC:
Can you email me the HTML code you were trying to post? It may help me better diagnose what is wrong. Ok, I am getting the same problem. It doesn't matter what the text is. It happens whenever "Using HTML tags in the comment" is checked. However, the script for editing a comment is in better shape.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sun, Apr 8, 2012 07:07 AM UTC:
I found a problem when I try to add HTML codes then it does not display the preview or the submit button on the preview page and it cannot send (I did put the checkmark "Using HTML tags in the comment" and it still broke)

Joe Joyce wrote on Sat, Apr 7, 2012 10:48 PM UTC:
Thank you Fergus. That will relieve some people.

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