Comments by jean-louiscazaux

The quality of the page has not been improved in more than one year. If everyone is happy with that, fine.

@ Fergus D, HG M, Kevin P, Zied H, Greg S, Daniel Z.

I have sent you an e-mail concerning my on-going project. Please check your e-mail box and warn me if you don't have it. I am not sure of your address. Thank you very much.

I think there are other mistakes:

"In the diagram on the right, the White Advancer can capture the Black Queen by moving along the path of red circles and ending its move on the large red circle on c5. If it stops on one of the smaller red circles on d6 or e7, the Advancer will not capture the Queen."

The large circle is on d5. The small red ones on e6 and f7.

Interesting paper. Errors in describing chess variants are not uncommon in literature (see Grant Acedrex for example). However, not everything are errors as this paper says. There are always obscure points in the old and original descriptions, and they are rendered with some interpretation by more modern authors. This is also what the authors of this paper are doing themselves. In my opinion their reconstruction is speculating as much as Murray or others have done, but their speculation make sense and I think their proposed reconstruction is the best for this game, indeed.

If Markov contacts me I will be glad to discuss that with him.

Is this variant a recent invention or is there an historical context? I don't understand. It is said "I dramatized Sin-yeon-sang-hui", but what is Sin-yeon-sang-hui?

Thank you

The "author" made 2 other pages of the same quality than this one. Looks like a troll is around.

I imagine the question has been asked in the past. Sorry to ask again, I don't know the answer:

Is there any way to propose a draw, null, to an opponent on Game Courier?

(Resigning is not really a solution because if a game is going to no end, it is unfair to give a "lost" at the player who resigns and "has won" to the other player.)

Thanks

I try this applet but it doesn't work for me, probably I'm doing wrong.

I use the white grid, in "Move definition aid". I tick some squares, they become orange. Then if I tick any of the 3 right-side buttons, for example "both", then the orange disappear, all squares on the diagram are white again and I see nothing where a Betza notation is supposed to appear.

I've tried on a Mac with Safari and Firefox.

Am I doing wrong ?

Thanks

The rule of castling is not correct as far as the Rook is concerned. When castling, the king moves three squares when castling short and four when castling long. The rook jumps to the immediate square on the other side of the king.

This will be corrected in future editions of A World of Chess, by JL.Cazaux and R.Knowlton.

The rule of castling is not correct as far as the Rook is concerned. When castling, the king move four squares toward one of the rooks, and the rook jumps to the other side of the king.

This will be corrected in future editions of A World of Chess, by JL.Cazaux and R.Knowlton.

In addition, the name Tressan has to be corrected to Tressau on this page.

The preset for Very Heavy Chess seems corrupted. It is not the one I designed, it is another one made by Greg Strong. I have a game going on with Kevin P. and I'm getting an absurd check, which is removed by another absurd move.

Would it be possible to put my preset instead?

Thanks