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It seems a member trying to change his email address might not work - I've tried to change mine but have not received the necessary email to the new address with a link needed for confirmation.
Could somebody check this, and also a backup hasn't been done for some days now.
If somebody could kindly sort these two things out - thanks.
SAE Nicholls
I came up with these changes. Yes, this is Zanny. Ten Cubed already has chess pieces from Capoblanca and Omega chess, and I think that 2 pieces from 100-cell chess by Vsevolod Dubrovsky will not interfere with it. And you can call Ten Cubed extended.
Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Jan 12, 2020 08:02 PM UTC:One of these pieces, the diagonal one (is that the Zanny?) was built in with the name 'Free Padwar' (a piece from Jetan.) I am adding the other one as 'Free Warrior'. It is possible to create it in the scripting language, but since the Padwars (both Free and Chained) are built in, the Jetan Warriors should be also for completeness.
Is the only change to Ten Cubed the addition of these two pieces? What should this new game be called? And who invended it?
That's correct. Thanks for saving me the trouble, Greg.
Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Jan 4, 2020 12:04 AM UTC:if match old r b n m a c v s w:
setelem reserve old inc elem old reserve;
endif;
reserve is an associative array that is keeping track of the number of pieces of each type that is in reserve. When a piece of one of these types is captured, the number associated with that type in the associative array is incremented. This is for implementing the promotion rules where you are allowed to promote by replacement to pieces of yours that have been captured.
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jan 3, 2020 06:58 PM UTC:I though about castling for a while but it does not seem a good thing. It would have involved one step diagonally back which is also uncomfortable. Any thoughts are appreciated.
For this reason I did start the King in Elven Chess on the back rank, and put one of the unorthodox pieces (the Lion) in its place next to the Queen.
And another question for Fergus, if I may.
in the gross chess code there is a line (to the end of post move code)
if match old r b n m a c v s w:
setelem reserve old inc elem old reserve;
endif;
I think it supposed to increase the values of pieces in reserve once captured, But I don't understand how and why, as for example there is no captured keyword. Thanks!...
A final question for the community about my 2 apothecary chess variants.
A few have played the games , and I'm remembering those that there was no castling in the games, as there is none in Grand Chess. I though about castling for a while but it does not seem a good thing. It would have involved one step diagonally back which is also uncomfortable. Any thoughts are appreciated.
As an update things are going decent with the automation. The king and joker are not yet done!... Thanks for any opinion or help!...
Ben Reiniger wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 03:29 AM UTC:An interesting in-development single-player game:
https://j4nw.itch.io/pawnbarian
"A quick-playing roguelike puzzler" incorporating minor deck-building components, a small-board one-v-rest similar to Maharajah, and (new and old(?)) fairy pieces. Pretty entertaining already, I'll be interested to see how it develops.
I'm not sure if anyone helped, but things seem ok now. I am sorry for any false alarm. Have fun everybody!
If possible, it might be good to know if a game is going to be rated, too (unless I'm missing something that indicates that), and maybe also if a game is going to be publicly viewable or not, in the case of personal invitations.
Ben Reiniger wrote on Tue, Dec 17, 2019 03:52 PM UTC:Last time it was just because there were no published submissions in the time period. It's probably the same this time, but I'll check (and I'll check the pending-approval queue).
I found something that Fergus has written here:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/movement.html
No worry, then!...
Which logical coordinates examples should I use in order to understand how to program griffin and aanca?
For now I'm not cpapable to do them!
Once again, at the moment I cannot see any newly approved submissions between 0 and 60 days old displayed on the What's New page (as accessed from the CVP home page).
Thanks. That must be it then!... Pardon my confusion!...
Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2019 04:10 PM UTC:That's right. If it doesn't show anything then there are no time controls. It would be better if there was a message to that effect.
I see that only in one case. I assume the rest of challenges are of the N/A kind!...
Time controls are shown right above the "Accept" button.
As I don't seem to find the answer myself: Is there a way to know before accepting a challenge what time requirements the game will have?
I have a request to those who can create and edit types of chess for the program ChessV. You can add to the Ten Cubes of Chess two figures of Zanny and General, as they walk, clearly shown here: https://yandex.ru/images/search?text=%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5%20%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B%20%D1%88%D1%83%D1%82%20%D0%B8%20%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB&from=tabbar&pos=2&img_url=https%3A%2F%2Fic.pics.livejournal.com%2Fobninskchess_ru%2F72180556%2F575637%2F575637_original.gif&rpt=simage And you need to place them on the sides of the Champions, Zanny should be only his own color, so it should be located on the queenside. General is accordingly royal.
It seems there may not have been a backup for a week - has this been forgotten?
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I've just tested on my own account, and the email was received, though sorted into the spam folder. Have you double-checked your spam folder? (My target account is administrated by google, though it's not a `gmail.com` address; I know we've had problems with gmail addresses in the past.)