Kibbitz Listing
wrote on oops. my opening move should obviously be j1-k1. you can fix it and make your move if you see this.
wrote on If someone can delete this game, that would be good. I accidentally put myself against Graeme in this game and not Charles.
wrote on oops... you would have won anyway, i think. good game.
wrote on what am i missing here? it doesn't look like joe is in a winning position
to me.
was this a timeout?
wrote on sorry, i messed up the time controls. don't start this game.
wrote on sorry guys, i mistakenly assigned this as a tournament game. please ignore it as a tournament game. of course, feel free to play it out. or just call it a draw. unfortunately, i don't seem to have the power to delete tournament games, even if i assigned them. maybe someone else can if they see this.
wrote on how does the queen go from c2 to g6?
wrote on what commands do i use to castle in this game?
wrote on i mean a2 and a3 (not b2 and b3)...
wrote on this preset is not letting me castle. can someone please see if there's a bug, or advise me what to type in.
wrote on cheers.
wrote on it won't let me promote to a queen (or a bishop). i'm allowed to promote, right? could you have a look to see if there's a bug, fergus?
wrote on fergus,
this game log has somehow recorded the wrong winner.
wrote on i don't really want to bring attention to this board, but does someone want to confirm this is checkmate?
wrote on hehe. i wondered if your moves were strategically timed, taking into
account international datelines etc. i lost three games on time a week
ago but managed to keep this one alive. i was going to offer a draw if it
wouldn't make any difference to where i would end up in the final table,
but it wasn't updated and i didn't have time to check it myself.
good game anyway.
wrote on this game was so long ago that i don't remember much about it. i am about to start another game and took a look at it. i made two silly errors in the first move. first, i pushed a pawn. according to the rules, the game is too biased if white has a push first move. also, i moved that pawn two squares. it's only supposed to ever be one square. mathieus also moved a pawn two squares in one turn. shoddy reading of the rules by both of us!
wrote on antoine, good game!
i'm curious to know if you would have played any differently to me
towards the end? i had gary do that king switch on me in an earlier game
where it caught me by surprise, so i was ready for it this time and
planned to send my own king plus the bridge-builder over. i felt in
control for a long time, but i didn't anticipate how annoying your few
remaining pieces on your home side would be. maybe you did start poorly,
but i think you finished well.
that early stage was weird. you moved your catapult pretty much the whole
way across the back row... seemed like negative play, but each time the
catapult has a piece a whole bunch of new threats show up.
i'm not sure if my swap of the archer horse for the horse was sound or
not. i did it to rule out the possibility of defeat, but in the end it
might have ruled out victory too?
be interested to know what gary thought of this game.
wrote on i must be stupid. what's the difference between the jumper and the long leaper?
wrote on i've lost the ability to tell which square the cursor is over. nothing appears. i guess i've accidentally changed something in my settings?? help!
wrote on oh, i was wondering where this game had gone. i missed that mate.
good game. this was good because i was outplayed... you played well from
start to finish. i've lost a couple of games in this tournament through
retarded blunders which are much more annoying. good luck with the rest
of the tournament!
wrote on i forgot to remove your phantom pawn! the pawn on h4 shouldn't be there.
i also forgot to put the captured pieces in the holding cell, which was the point of this...
wrote on i tried to move in this game (c8-b10) and got this error message:
This preset now uses the new code for identifying check, checkmate, and
stalemate. Let me know of any problems with it.Syntax Error on line 393
wrote on roberto, thanks for the game. after the last few moves i am happy to end
it here. there doesn't seem like anywhere to go in a hurry from this
position. we have both turned down chances to open the game up.
good luck with the rest of the tournament.
wrote on thanks for the game, mike! it's a shame it didn't last longer. i guess
it turned when you missed the potential for my ninth move.
from this position i was planning to follow by moving the queen to h1 for
another check, then mutating the queen into something stronger.
this was only my second game of this, but it is obviously a very cool
variant. i hope to play more games later on.
good luck in the rest of the tournament.
wrote on anyone reading this log should note that the original game was quickly won by david in five moves!
wrote on oops, sorry. i just moved my champion diagonally. that's illegal. go back and make your previous move again and i'll do something different.
wrote on yup, good game. every game i've played so far has been like this - you never seem to be without a chance in this variant.
wrote on ok, you are right. i had only looked at the brief description below the board for rules instead of going to the actual rules page.
wrote on and i've forgotten to wormhole a square again... g8 should be blank.
wrote on great idea! i've just noticed this. should be good with george playing
and an inventor and players like roberto and antoine kibbitzing.
i like this game a lot. my first effort against george i was totally
lost, and while i think i am putting up an improved effort in our second
go, i confess to playing with a very shallow plan. i don't have any good
ideas about position management. i have noticed george is kind of
smothering me with his pawns, it seems more important to get a flank of
pawns forward (in the center i guess) than i first thought.
peter, i don't know if you noticed, but this exact issue came up in my
game with george. we resolved it after looking at the animation.
wrote on should have known!
no, i'm not interested in taking back moves. (i don't think of this
continuation of the game as a take-back. the only reason i typed in
'resign' was that the program was refusing to send the move with only
the game status changed and nothing in the moves field. if we were at a
table, you would have let me know there was a valid move. or even if one
did take it as an official resignation, then i would rather see this as
post-match analysis than taking back a move.)
let's try
22. a3-a5;-a3.
wrote on c1-a3;-c1//checkmate? if you agree this is checkmate, i'll start another
game up.
i've only tried omega chess once. it was interesting, but not exactly
inspiring. did you buy an official board?
this game is cool. i didn't find the lack of gridlines a problem really.
my problem was that when i was visualising a move, i was failing to
visualise the newly wormholed square, which can often make the position
quite different.
wrote on 20. g3-h3;-g3
to make this move i dedided i had to set up a board. i just used my
normal chess board and pieces plus a couple of kids' toys. i put coins
on all the wormholed squares. i don't usually play these online games
with a board in front of me. do you?
wrote on oh.
this game is confusing me. i can move to g3, can't i. so it's not
checkmate. but i ended the game, so i don't think we can continue.
umm... i move e1-g3;-e1 if you want to finish it by kibbitz.
wrote on check
wrote on whoops, i forgot to blank f3.
wrote on who set those silly time limits?
how do we continue?
wrote on can i jump and take-over the pawn at e5? it says i 'can't change the type of that piece'
wrote on well played tony. i am sure you would have won anyway.
wrote on i think i must have timed out. life has been too busy lately.
wrote on antoine, i am away for 9/10 days. i need about that long to figure out my next move anyway. have a good week.
wrote on cheers antoine
wrote on i think there is a bug in the game. the preset thinks i am in check and won't let me make any moves. i'm pretty sure i'm not in check.
wrote on i'm confused. i can't seem to promote my pawn. i have tried 'd10-;Q-d11' and 'd10-d11;Q-d11'. i get the messages 'you can't change this type of piece' or 'you can only promote on the last rank'. have i got the notation wrong? have i got the move wrong?
wrote on cheers fergus.
wrote on sorry... now i've forgotten to switch boards too!
wrote on i just want to clarify a rule i'm a little unsure of. i think i misunderstood the rule prior to ben's last move. a pincer pawn can only capture one piece at a time? (in one direction)
wrote on what a way to begin... i have (obviously) moved the wrong piece and can't figure out how to take back the move. help...