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Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I hope you guys enjoy the new version of this game. For now, the rules enforcing and move displaying are an ongoing job, for me to do. After that I hope to see you soon!...
Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I hope you guys enjoy the new version of this game. For now, the rules enforcing and move displaying are an ongoing job, for me to do. After that I hope to see you soon!...
Red Fool Chess. Standard Chess, but with two extra rows and one semi autonomous piece, the Red Fool.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Jan 31, 2020 10:55 PM UTC:To clarify all that - this is a multi-move game. The player that attacks the Red Fool then gets a second move in which he must move it according to these criteria (assuming it has a legal move.)
the RF will not move to nor will it attack on any square that is defended by any white or black piece
there is a hierarchy to its movements - empty, undefended square first (choice of player who threatened it), or attack on the lowest value piece that is undefended (in case of more than one of equal low value, choice of player who threatened the RF during his normal turn move)
any color piece may threaten the RF and force it to move
yes. the RF must move if threatened, unless it has no possible move.
yes, if the players move threatens the RF, then the RF moves and that player has a choice of the RF's limited movement options
The RF can only move if threatened. It can not move to defended square. It will always move to an empty undefended square first (choice of player who threatened it), if it can't do that it will attack the player who threatened it with her choice of lowest value pieces. If the Fool has no move, it does not move -it just blocks until either side's move threatens it. The player who threatens has the only choice of the limited moves available to the RF.
Ben Reiniger wrote on Fri, Jan 31, 2020 08:00 PM UTC:I've just realized I don't actually know when the red fool moves from the text. I'd assume it doesn't have its own turn, but instead acts as a piece that one of the players can move during their turn? Must it be moved if it is attacked, and (especially if so) does the player get to move the RF in addition to or just instead of one of their own pieces? Does "attacked" depend on whose turn it is (i.e., if the RF is attacked only by a black piece, can black move the RF)?
I still don't completely understand "safe"/"either empty or undefended": is there a priority among the three options (an empty and unthreatened square, an empty but threatened square, and an occupied but unthreatened square)? I guess here "threatened" doesn't depend on piece colors?
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Jan 31, 2020 04:09 AM UTC:I think if you put the opponent's ID in, it just creates the game. That's by design. But if you don't want to play, you have the ability to unilaterally delete the game.
Yesterday, I was issued a personal challenge that was automatically accepted. Wasn't given the option to decline invitation. Perhaps something to look into.
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2020 11:59 PM UTC:Yes, it looks like it has the identies of the players backwards. That's odd.
Just like to point out.
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Chess+with+Different+Armies&log=pallab-cvgameroom-2006-64-786
In this game, I was white and I won the game. However the game courier shows that my opponenet won the game.
Sign in to the Chess Variant Pages. Sign in to the Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I was able to sign in using Microsoft Edge with blanet permission to accept all cookie anywhere (the default for Edge).
The log in for comments https://www.chessvariants.com/index/commentonitem.php?itemid=Login also rejects my credentials with the same cookie error. All other pages refer me to the original login page. Firefox has chessvariant.com listed as an allowed site to accept cookies from, and the current version of Firefox wouldn't let me allow cookies from the whole net, even if I wanted to, just whitelist specific sites.
Ben Reiniger wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2020 03:07 PM UTC:Odd, I can't log in from this login page either, but I can log in through the menu on other pages. Trying to log in from this page (/login/login.php) takes me to /login/cvplogin.php which hangs.
I don't receive a cookies message on this page, but I can confirm the same adblocker message behavior.
gmail addresses have had problems receiving emails from us, but that shouldn't affect your login, especially not abruptly like this.
Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@The Editors
These days I had tried to finalize the rules of my 2 apothecary games.
This should be the final version of this article pending review.
Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@The Editors
These days I had tried to finalize the rules of my 2 apothecary games.
This should be the final version of this article pending review.
Sign in to the Chess Variant Pages. Sign in to the Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have been unable to log in using the same credentials that worked three days ago. The loging page demends I enable cookies and I have done so for chessvariants.com (my browser is Firefox v72.0.2). But the login page fails to detect that I have done so, and won't let me log in. The login page also complains my adblocker, failing to detect that I have whitelisted this site (Adblocker Ultimate). Other pages of the CVP correctly detect this and don't complain about the ad blocker. Please help asap. I don't know if this is relevant, but my email address on record is a gmail address.
Red Fool Chess. Standard Chess, but with two extra rows and one semi autonomous piece, the Red Fool.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Ben Reiniger wrote on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 10:08 PM UTC:Aha, while the Editor's "edit contents" link has appended the uniqid to bypass cache issues, the Author's "edit the contents" link does not. While I would prefer to have a better solution to cache issues, maybe for now we should also add a uniqid to the Author links.
If I get some time tonight, I'll redo my edits to this page. (I see the board is back already, at least.)
Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Attention Fergus, re: a possible bug with this preset:
In the following log, I tried to move my Black piece from f6 to d4. A dialogue box then popped up and told me the move is not legal (in fact I think it is legal), and asked me if I wished to go ahead and make the move anyway.
Red Fool Chess. Standard Chess, but with two extra rows and one semi autonomous piece, the Red Fool.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:29 PM UTC:And my edit, adding the board graphic is now gone as well, for the second time.
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I've had a idea lately with a vertical only version of this piece