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I was playing that game on GC when suddendly I got this message and now I don't find the game nor the log anymore. Very frustrating:

Error: The logfile at ../pbmlogs/devingt_chess/nanil618-timurthelenk-2023-314-626.php is missing, or something is misspelled.

@Fergus: any idea of what has happened?

Time for me to fix that ID on the game, too, I think.

@H.G.: There seems to be something wrong with my Vanguard game. I'm not sure whether it's my coding or yours, but I'm getting the list of legal moves, and the rifle capture I'm trying to do isn't among them; it's not letting me do my move.

The move was amongst them, but screwed up as h12-#to; @-i10. This problem was caused by the fact that the second leg of the rifle capture was marked as an 'iso' leg; apparently the ID you produced the code from had defined this move as caibN instead of the correct cabN. Since i in a continuation leg means 'as many leaps as the preceding rider leg, and N is not a rider atom, this produced an undefined value for the destination square. The ID is apparently able to handle that, but the GAME code wasn't. I made it resistant to this error by defaulting the number of leaps in the latest rider leg to 1.

Unfortunately this uncovered another problem, in the JavaScript for move entry. The move now shows up in the 'legalList' as h12-h12; @-i10. That is correct, but the script expects the second click to go on the destination, but cannot handle the case where the destination is equal to the origin. (This collides with the normal function of a second click on the selected piece, to deselect it.) The desired clicking sequence here would be h12, i10.

So I will have to redesign the move-entry script to handle these kind of moves. In the mean time you should be able to continue the game by typing the move, I expect.

I will debug this tomorrow, when I have enough time to be sure I can finish it. The symptoms are similar to what happened once before: the variable 'to' (the destination square) gets assigned a non-existent value (likely a non-existing array element), and in GAME code this can lead to the name of the variable (#to) being assigned to the variable, and later bemistaken for the destination of a move.

Yeah, that's why I initially addressed the question to him. :)

At the top, it has this error message:

a h12-#to; @-i10, which is listed as a legal move, is not a well-formed move.

This seems to be the move you say is missing. The problem is that it includes a variable name instead of the value of that variable. Since your code is automatically generated instead of hand-written, H. G. Muller is in a better position to further help you with this than I am.

My Archer at h12 should be able to shoot the Sergeant at i10.

(I did previously use my Bowman currently at m9 to capture a Pawn at n7, so at least that part works.)

I'm not sure whether it's my coding or yours, but I'm getting the list of legal moves, and the rifle capture I'm trying to do isn't among them; it's not letting me do my move.

Tell me more about what you're doing and the move that should be legal but isn't showing up among the legal moves. Since I have not written any code to specifically accommodate rifle moves, you will have to make sure your code handles them properly.

@H.G.: There seems to be something wrong with my Vanguard game. I'm not sure whether it's my coding or yours, but I'm getting the list of legal moves, and the rifle capture I'm trying to do isn't among them; it's not letting me do my move.

There are invitations for the variants Queens, Queens II and Queenmania. I would be happy if anyone is interested.

I tried looking at the finished logs for Duke of Rutland's Chess and most of them give an error like this

Error: The logfile at ../pbmlogs/duke_of_rutlands_chess/cavalier-cvgameroom-2006-127-561.php is missing, or something is misspelled.

The logs and settings files were each in two different directories. The older directory had an apostrophe in it. So I moved the files from the directories with apostrophes to those without apostrophes, and I removed the old directories. The standard behavior now is to generate directory names without apostrophes.

I tried looking at the finished logs for Duke of Rutland's Chess and most of them give an error like this

Error: The logfile at ../pbmlogs/duke_of_rutlands_chess/cavalier-cvgameroom-2006-127-561.php is missing, or something is misspelled.

It was using the wrong case for the promotion. It will now enter that move as N 7g-5j; +N-dest and work correctly.

after move N 7g-5j; +n-dest this preset doesnt work https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Hex+Shogi+91&log=makov333-cvgameroom-2023-19-928

Every single finished shogi log is saying a move is illegal for some reason.

From the looks of it, a good amount of logs are going haywire; at some point some specific move is regarded as broken and so it can't display the log on the interface itself

Paul had deleted his invitation in between. Strange, it was an open invitation to anyone and I was getting this message as if the invitation was private. We will see if this occurs again in future. Thanks.

I don't see the invitations you're speaking of. So, I can't look into it. The message you're reporting should be displayed when someone tries to accept a private invitation meant for someone else.

Help is needed. I'm trying to accept Numerist's invitation at Pemba. When I click on "Anyone" I get this message:

Your userid is timurthelenk. This log is private. It may be viewed only by the players. If you are one of the players, please sign in first. You may use the menu for this.

I remember that it was also the case few days ago, also with an invitation from Numerist, and Aurelian had also the same problem, getting a similar message.

Maybe Fergus may have a look. Is Numerist doing something wrong when inviting? Or something else?

Thank you

This one gives a white page too:

makov333-cvgameroom-2022-272-899

I see your logs at least have the error message you described, unlike mine vs. Chistine.

@Kevin: I also see a blank page on your log. What do you see on my logs?

I have a similar problem with log linked below (except I only see blank page):

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=4-Handed+Chatarunga&log=panther-zcherryz-2022-123-934

Also on this one:

arx-timurthelenk-2022-283-047

Please help!

I have 2 games running on GC that I can't access anymore. I get the following message: "Please report any bugs or errors to Fergus Duniho"

There are

timurthelenk-numerist-2022-294-596

timurthelenk-cvgameroom-2022-288-470

I don't understand what's going on.

Thanks for your help