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Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Deleted by ftp.
In game log -- michaeljay-cvgameroom-2005-32-111 -- the system is showing that it is my move, but when I click onto the link to the game, there is a short message showing that 'my opponent cannot move a pawn from f8 to f6'. Is there a way to correct the move so that I can continue the game?
Also, when I tried to look at some finished games, the logs do not pull up. I am sure that something positive is being done to fix it.
Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 07:44 PM UTC:Much work is being done to make the Game Courier language better. Unfortunately, some changes do result in old Game Logs no longer being viewable. It would be nice if there were some way to at least view the full text of game logs that cannot properly load because of errors, but this, I'd imagine, is not a high priority item.
The bug in Omega Chess is now fixed. Here is what happened. The bug was in a line that used the checkaleap function, and it was being given the wrong direction. Just recently, I fixed a bug in the checkaleap function. The bug had allowed two-way vertical movement when it was supposed to check for only one-way vertical movement. So, until the bug fix to this function, it was allowing the bug in the Omega Chess code to go unnoticed so long as players entered only legal moves. So, this was an instance of one bug fix revealing another bug.
<P>Nasmichael Farris wrote:</P>
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Also, when I tried to look at some finished games, the logs do not pull up. I am sure that something positive is being done to fix it.
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<P>You first need to tell me which logs are having problems. Then I'll look into it.</P>
<P>Greg Strong wrote:</P>
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It would be nice if there were some way to at least view the full text of game logs that cannot properly load because of errors, but this, I'd imagine, is not a high priority item.
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<P>There is a way for me to view a log. I use FTP. But I don't see any need for allowing anyone at all to view a log, since the raw information in a log is mainly of use to someone who is going to debug and fix the problem, and anyone who can do that, namely myself and other editors, can already view the log's contents by FTP. The important thing for others to do is to report any bugs found.</P>
I can't anymore reach any of my games. The message is : 'The logfile ../pbmlogs/hostage_chess/michaeljay-MFEM.MFEMFEMFE-2005-188-637.php does not exist.' I don't know what to do.
About my last message I add the problem is from my computer. Each time I write 'P-a-u-l' without dashes of course, this firstname is changed in 'MFEM'. I don't know why. McAfee says my computer is clean. A search by Windows for the word 'MFEM'. He displays only the list of emails I have send today with my firstname modify with 'MFEM'. I really don't know what I can do yet. Any idea, please?
OK! I have reinstalled Windows. Now all seems normal.
I am not sure of where I was - I think that I was trying to access the game logs - but when I typed in my password and clicked the 'submit' icon (or button or whatever you call it), the following message to appeared: Warning: usort(): The argument should be an array in /home/chessva/public_html/play/pbmlogs/index.php on line 226
I think the usort() message pops up when I misspell my 'User ID' and the code fails to trap misspellings as such, and replace them with a reference to a null name being replaced with a guest name (for instance). I think I was trying to obtain a list of games already played from the Game Courier Log.
The usort() error message appears when no game logs pass through the filters. The usort() function is used for sorting the selected logs, and when there are no logs, it gives an error message because it has nothing to sort. When a wrong userid is entered, and that userid is not in use by anyone, it will end up excluding all logs.
I am very thankful that this team has been so diligent in bringing the chess variant community the continued opportunity to play and experiment with these great games. Much of your work goes unrecognized, and I want to be one to offer my gratitude. Good job, folks.
When a player has won, it appears that a box ought to exist somewhere that he can edit to say who has won, but this box never appears for me. Exactly where can I find a box to click, that lets me declare who is the winner? Also, there appears to be a mysterious 'delete log' box. Can you explain the history behind this option? How often does one player choose to delete both logs? Finally, I'd like the option to backup and allow my opponent to change his move. There is supposed to be a button/icon that says 'GOTO' but I can't find it. What part of Game Courier has this button in it? This option doesn't seem to be available to me anywhere, and it doesn't make any difference whether I am white or black, I still can't figure out how to 'backup' and let my opponent choose some other move. This is in response to my recent game of Rococo with gwduke where I elected to mutually destroy the white Swapper and the black King; the only intelligent move I could see for Black was moving the black Immobilizer back to freeze the white Swapper and prevent it from engaging in 'mutual destruction.'
I can understand a player wanting to delete his own moves, and his name if he wants to, so that's why I naturally assumed that a game log consists of two logs - the moves that one player makes, and the moves that the other player makes. Shouldn't the 'Delete Log' option work only to delete the moves that a particular player makes, and not the moves of both players together?
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I missed Matthew Montchalin's comments in October. So I'll respond now. The box to click to declare a winner is the Status field that's available when you're able to move. You may also use a command, such as loss or won. A game does not have two logs. It has only one. It makes no sense to delete the moves of only one player and not the other, since neither could be understood without the other. When you delete a log, you delete the whole game. The delete option is available to allow players to delete their own logs without bothering me to do it for them, as they used to do. Although I wouldn't recommend deleting finished games, since it is nice to keep a record of them, it is often helpful to delete aborted games. How to take back your moves is described in the User's Guide. The button for going back to a previous move is called 'Go' not 'GOTO'. I'm getting a 404 error when I try to view the entire message from Matthew. So if there is anything more to respond to right now, I can't read it.
The 404 when trying to view an entire comment is something I've noticed before. A workaround is to first go to the 'all comments' page and then click on the 'view entire' link for the relevant comment.
The problem seems to be that the link from the PBM Game Logs page points to /play/pbmlogs/displaycomment.php?commentid=11172, while the link from the corresponding Comment Listing page points to http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=11172.
Unicorn Problems! Yesterday I (finally!) posted rules pages for the games in the 'Unicorn Great Chess Preset for Game Courier' and 'Lions and Unicorns Chess Preset for Game Courier'. Could one of the editors please change the Rules buttons in these presets to link to my games rules pages? And replace the first two sentences in the 'Pawn' section of Rules of Lions and Unicorns Chess with the single sentence: 'Any Pawn may make a double move from the square it started on.' Pawns do not start on the third rank in Lions and Unicorns Chess. I am the inventor, not the author of these presets.
I fixed the Unicorn Great Chess preset. The other one should be fixed by Greg Strong.
I have finished programming the Logs page to automatically update logs in which someone has run out of time. This only affects timed games. To spare overhead, it now does this only for a player's own ongoing games that have been inactive for at least a week. But before restricting its use in this manner, I used the new feature to update the logs of all games that have been inactive more than a week and in which someone has lost on time. If you look at the games that have finished today, you will find a bunch that finished at about the same time. This is from automatically updating them. From now on, this page will handle the updating of logs when someone runs out of time.
I have added a new column and a new sorting method to this page. The new column indicates how much time is left in a game or 'N/A' for untimed games. The new sorting method sorts games by how much time is left, placing games with less time left above. It sorts untimed games by age, placing them all below any timed games. The 'Your Games' link in Game Courier now uses this new sorting method, so that players will be less likely to accidently lose a game by running out of time. Time left is calculated only when a userid is entered. Otherwise, the time left sorting function sorts by age. Given that time left is now calculated for any active game, there is no longer any delay in updating logs for games in which someone has run out of time. Any game in which a player has lost on time should be updated as soon as one of the players checks his own games with the Logs page.
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