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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 07:27 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:04 PM:

Well, although I'm not sure it is so bad if the board is large enough.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 07:04 PM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from 09:34 AM:

This is true.


Jörg Knappen wrote on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 09:34 AM UTC:

Despite the nice geometric move pattern this piece seems to be unemployed before Musketeer Chess. I can understand why: It creates triple forward forks into the rank behind the pawn line and is a very dangerous attacking piece. Creating a playable game with this piece is definitely a challenge (I haven't examined Musketeer Chess in this respect).


Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Apr 13, 2021 07:52 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:39 PM:

I don't know of anything else using this piece. Team-Mate Chess uses a "Mortar" which has AG moves, but not DH. That is the closest I know of.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Apr 13, 2021 07:39 PM UTC:

Does anyone know games which are using Alfil/Dabbaba/Threeleaper/Tripper. Musketeer Chess has it as an Hawk. Is there other games, and how they call this piece?


slide-then-step moves[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Bn Em wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 04:02 PM UTC:

As for pieces that can only do slide‐then‐step and not the reverse, the only one that comes to mind in a game is the Transcendental Prelate.


Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 02:33 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 02:09 PM:

Thank you. I think this was the one I was thinking of. I didn't implement RennChess because of this ...


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 02:09 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 01:43 PM:

Renniassance Chess has pieces that can do either


Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 01:43 PM UTC:

Pieces such as the Grant Acedrex Griffon step or leap and then slide. Is anyone aware of games with pieces that do the opposite - slide first and then finish their move with a step in a different direction?


Apothecary Chess Tournament[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Apr 7, 2021 03:52 PM UTC:

Round 4 games have been added. Good luck!


Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Apr 6, 2021 07:25 AM UTC:

The classification so far is:

Erik 5 points

Daniel 4 points

Aurelian 3 points

Oisin 0 points

4th round comming soon.


Diagram testing thread[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Sun, Apr 4, 2021 10:03 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from Thu Dec 31 2020 10:41 PM:

In fact, Charles Gilman has used the name Heroine before for some piece on a hex-prism board (3 dimensional with stacked planes of hexagons). I don't whether it was featured in a game and Gilman's games tend to be deployments of the pieces in many cases.


Piece Value and Classification[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Leon Carey wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2021 10:23 AM UTC:

One possible way to find out if a piece was a member of the pawn family, is to imagine if they would look down at other pawns at dinner e.g. Berolina Pawn: Hey, FIDE Pawn, it sure is nice to see you. FIDE Pawn: Yeah, nice to see you too. Metamarchy Pawn: (sprints up to them) Hi you two, how's it going. FIDE Pawn: Alright, thanks- Mann: OUT OF MY WAY WEAKLINGS! (All pawns silently glare at Mann)


Apothecary Chess Tournament[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Erik Lerouge wrote on Fri, Mar 19, 2021 10:39 PM UTC:

Ok, so the round 3 has begun!

By the way, what is the result of the second round?


Aurelian Florea wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2021 04:56 AM UTC:

I have added the round 3 matches!


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 17, 2021 12:19 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 11:48 AM:

Okay, I've updated the code. Try it again.


Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Mar 17, 2021 11:48 AM UTC:

Fergus,

I tried to assing the round 3 games for this tournament but I had received an error saying : "No email address could be found for catugo. No assignment was mailed, and no log was created."


Comemnt search doesnt work[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 16, 2021 06:45 PM UTC:

When I restored the site, MariaDB 10 kept losing connections. To get the database to work, I replaced MariaDB 10 with MariaDB 5. In doing this, I manually edited the database backup to make it compatible with MariaDB 5, and one change I made was to remove all the FULLTEXT keys, which were what enabled it to search through the text of comments. I expect the code that exists for searching the text of comments uses special features of MariaDB 10 that are not a part of MariaDB 5, and that is why your search did not work.


x x wrote on Tue, Mar 16, 2021 04:41 PM UTC:

Hi, searching through comments doesnt work, when I search something I know exists, it will not show up.

Example: https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?search=Crowned+Bishop&order=DESC&submit=Search

Expected result: https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=22505

Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong?


Double Pawn Move[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Mar 9, 2021 08:31 PM UTC:

I have definitely heard about this kind of Chess variant, and I remember to have played it in Germany when I was young and not fully introduced to FIDE rules. It is a kind of popular chess variant always flying below the radar, a bit like "Queens Left Chess" with a point-symmetric setup of the pieces. Interestingly, it is the first question in the Rules of Chess: Pawns FAQ on this site.


Bn Em wrote on Tue, Mar 9, 2021 06:44 PM UTC:

I seem to recall having read somewhere about a variation on the pawns' initial double move which, contrary to the standard rules, allows not only a single pawn moving two steps, but also two pawns moving one step each. Iirc it was described as being played in India, with a popular opening involving one King's pawn moving two steps and the other side moving both bishops' pawns, though it may have been the knights' pawns and I can't remember which side makes which move.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? I can't seem to find it anywhere myself.


Upgrading to CentOS 8[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Mar 6, 2021 01:58 PM UTC in reply to Dead Account from 04:05 AM:

Seems that creating directories for new variants doesn't work right now.

It should work now that I have put apache and chessvariants into each other's groups.


Dead Account wrote on Sat, Mar 6, 2021 04:05 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Fri Mar 5 11:28 PM:

Seems that creating directories for new variants doesn't work right now.

Error message:

Failed to create the directory /home/chessvariants/public_html/play/pbmsettings/cascade_chess.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 5, 2021 11:28 PM UTC:

This did not go well. So, I reinstalled CentOS 7 and restored the site from backups made on February 26th. I have been having trouble with accessing the database using MariaDB 10.5.9. I have switched to MariaDB 5 to see if it makes a difference.


Charles Gilman[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 26, 2021 02:42 PM UTC in reply to Christine Bagley-Jones from 12:35 PM:

He dropped off without explanation after updating the graphics on his pages to use the diagram designer and shortcodes. He has not been in contact with me, and he has had no known web presence apart from his activity on this site.


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