Comments by jean-louiscazaux
Yes Greg I mean this guy. I see it blurred in its upper part.
Nice additions. Except the Owl, not fitting with the rest.
Some ideas for future additions: catapult, bison, panthers or cheetah, bear, antelope, ostrich, wolf, dog, cat, mouse, phantom.
Not to forget to fix the "knight above rook"
ChessV
. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you Greg, indeed I didn't have it. Now it's alright. Smiling, I say that I will never use a joker. Too much controversial. :=)
A (late) question to Greg. In your Option 1: Option 1: The Joker is "reinitialized" each time the owning player moves, returning to its initial state of having no moves at all. This is how ChessV currently works, and I think the Game Courier preset as well. Personally, I consider this a reasonable option, but it seems others do not, and it has the unfortunate consequence of meaning that King+Joker cannot checkmate a bare King.
I have not understood how the joker is moving. I understand Option 2 and 3, but what about 1? Let's imagine the Owner moves a Rook, then the opponent moves a Pawn. How is the Joker moving now if it has no moves at all?
Me too like Aurelian, I was not understanding the controversy. There is an old entry for the Joker in the Piececlopedia: https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/joker.html where the Joker is defined relatively to the last move of the opponent. Which is Aurelian's definition I believe.
Beside this, is that discussion at the right page? It looks like if ChessV page is hijacked.
Enchanted Forest. Members-Only Chess Variant with fairy pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
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Very Heavy Chess. A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have added an Interactive Diagram to this page. (Thanks to HG)
Heavy Chess. A high-density chess-variant-variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have added an Interactive Diagram to this page. (Thanks to HG)
Zanzibar-XL. Further step after Metamachy. 80 pieces of 19 different pieces, with historical lineage.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have added an Interactive Diagram to this page. (Thanks to HG)
Tamerlane II. Modern variant based upon ancient large chess variant. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It will be a pleasure if it could help but I'm afraid it won't. The reason is that all editors here are experts and skilled in computer science. Often, I don't even understand what you are talking about. To start with SCP or SFTP are completely unknown to me.
To come back to my question, we had the same discussion sometimes ago for Shako (see the comments at this page). Ben Reiniger helped for that. You were speaking of a "migration" then. It would be nice if authors of ancient pages could edit their pages without passing by the step of being editors of the CVP.
Thanks
Although I am the author of this page, as it is an old one I have no possibility to edit it. May I be given the right to do so by Fergus or an editor? Thanks a lot.
How to Design and Post Your Own Game. A reference for those who want to post their own games here.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hope I'm not concerned. I don't understand anything, this is for experts. Are these changes affecting the Game Courier presets made so far?
Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes, I think it is better. As it is right now, the text allows more moves than the diagram. Of course the diagram is clear in itself but it is never good to have a difference, one might wonder if the diagram is wrong.
I had seen somewhere (maybe in AI AI?) this piece defined as "leaps as a narrow knight then slides outwards vertically or leaps as a wide knight then slides outwards horizontally". But it can be argued that one needs to know what narrow Knight and wide Knight mean.
Whatever, I suggest to add something to remove the wrong interpretation.
The definition of the Pegasus is incomplete and confusing:
"The Pegasus leaps as a knight and may then slide outward as a rook" It should be said that "The Pegasus leaps as a knight, one orthogonal step followed by a diagonal step leaping the intervening square, and may then slide outward as a rook on the same orthogonal direction"
For example, a Pegasus on a1 may go on b3,b4,b5,etc. it may not go on b3,c3,d3,etc. which is also leaping as a knight and then slide outward as a rook.
I already knew that the author disagrees with me when he qualifies his board of "ridiculous". In fact that's the point as I was indeed saying that this board is not "ridiculous" imo. Second, I do not mean at all this game should be published. I completely share Fergus's opinion and your opinion on this. I was just discussing that maybe some interesting games could be imagined on such a board. No more.
Well, I disagree. The idea of an infinite dimension on the board is interesting in my opinion. Ridiculous means deserving mockery or being absurd. It is none of them. I'm not attached on the way the author defines the infinity which is possibly arguable. I prefer imagining the board having an infinite even number of rows like if it had a sort of black-hole-river in the middle. The game we have here is not good as only Rooks and Queens can cross it, but I guess some other game could be imagined on this conceptual board and I then this board has nothing ridiculous.
A more interesting debate would be to discuss of how many definite rows would be necessary to approach the same topological nature than an infinite number of rows. I don't know if I'm clear. I mean, maybe a board of 20 or 30 rows is enough. It probably depends on the number of columns, probably on the number of pieces able to cross the "infinity" also. I wonder.
As remarked by Ben, after "2", all primes are odd. By definition. So the number of rows had to be "big prime"+/-1.
Saying, on this place, that games with fairy pieces are not well playable is a bit surprising. I guess the author speaks of things he doesn't know and I encourage him to try, it will only be a matter of choice for him to pick one variant.
Finally why being very long is ridiculous? Weird maybe, but not ridiculous. Infinite Long Board would be a better title. Sure this game is not physically playable, but would it be playable by computers, I wonder?
Maybe the grammar it's part of the fun in that game :=)
Looks like it's above all a matter of punctuation.
"the knight can when it take make (with that same knight) another move the bishop can not be taken but the bishop can also not capture other pieces"
I would translate into:
The Knight can make a second move when it captures at its first move. The Bishop cannot be captured and cannot capture.
Remarks: It is not said if the 2nd move of the Knight can be a capture. If yes, can it continue and make a 3rd move (or capture and etc.)?
The Bishop looks like an obstacle that can be moved.
Elven Chess. 10x10 variant with 4 new pieces, of which one can double-capture. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you. With the help of this diagram and that comment, your text is clear.
I don't understand this sentence: A Warlock can only capture another Warlock if it would have been safe for a King to end up where the Warlock did. (The "did" here confuses me)
Does that simply mean that a Warlock cannot capture the opponent's Warlock if it could be captured on the next turn?
If yes, shall I understand that this sentence is only repeating the previous one: "When the Warlock captures the opponent Warlock, it becomes 'royal' for one turn, which means it must not be exposed to capture, not even to capture by a piece pinned on the King. "
I'm not sure if the 2nd sentence means something additional or not.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Paul had deleted his invitation in between. Strange, it was an open invitation to anyone and I was getting this message as if the invitation was private. We will see if this occurs again in future. Thanks.
Help is needed. I'm trying to accept Numerist's invitation at Pemba. When I click on "Anyone" I get this message:
Your userid is timurthelenk. This log is private. It may be viewed only by the players. If you are one of the players, please sign in first. You may use the menu for this.
I remember that it was also the case few days ago, also with an invitation from Numerist, and Aurelian had also the same problem, getting a similar message.
Maybe Fergus may have a look. Is Numerist doing something wrong when inviting? Or something else?
Thank you
High Chess. Drawn games are instead won by the player whose King is closest to the centre.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Very interesting. Maybe a bit complicated indeed.
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Why the Tiger is noted bRfBfRbBvRB? Except if I'm wrong, fBbB is simply B, then B is written twice. bRfR is simply vR, then vR is noted twice. So your Tiger is simply BvR no? I don't know if redundant notation may have an effect.
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Games are back. Thanks to who helped.
For me, it is 3 games which are stopped in the middle like yours. Hope they will be returned soon.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This one gives a white page too:
makov333-cvgameroom-2022-272-899
@Kevin: I also see a blank page on your log. What do you see on my logs?
Also on this one:
arx-timurthelenk-2022-283-047
Please help!
I have 2 games running on GC that I can't access anymore. I get the following message: "Please report any bugs or errors to Fergus Duniho"
There are
timurthelenk-numerist-2022-294-596
timurthelenk-cvgameroom-2022-288-470
I don't understand what's going on.
Thanks for your help
Aviation Chess. Legan's Aviation Chess, popular during WWI, featuring the Aviator piece (with zrf).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hi HG I've tried to write to you in PM to give you Mat's address but my mail has bounced twice, I got a message saying my "message is likely to be a spam". I can't see why.
I've checked the zrf of Aviation Ch (made by Mats) with Zillions. Nothing special, the zrf is very simple. When playing it is possible to x the opposite R with the Aviator, ZoG replies by capturing the Aviator with its Aviator (of course).
So it is exactly as you say.
Archchess. Large chess variant from 17th century Italy. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes indeed, I had not noticed how unclear is this page! There is not a word about castling at this variant in the original Italian text. It safely can be supposed that castling, pawn's promotion, etc. were following the standard chess rules that Piacenza was playing with. In my book with Rick K we wrote the following:
"Piacenza did not provide other rules specific to this game. It may be supposed that they follow those he gave for regular chess.i Castling is free according to the Italian fashion of the time in which the King may move to any of the vacant squares between King and Rook, and the Rook moves around the King to any spot up to the King’s square of departure. Pawns promote only to Queens."
For those interested in history, the move of the Champion of Arciscacchiere invented by Piacenza is clearly only crossing empty squares when "travelling" two squares as Rook or Bishop (p118). So, the Centurion cannot leap occupied squares as Alfil or Dabbaba. Piacenza insisted on this point several times in his description. (ex p119,p123). In Betza notation it is NnAnD. The Centurion is not a Squirrel.
However, Murray did not understand correctly and described the Centurion as a jumper in the eight directions. Pritchard repeated that definition given by the English historian and added the Knight’s leap that Murray had forgotten. He had forgotten it because Piacenza explains to have added the move of the Knight only few pages later. (The presentation of the rules by Piacenza is a bit messy).
So few pages later (p120), Piacenza confessed to have spoken with a certain Mr. Fantone which would have allowed him to have seen a chess book in which a Centaur also had the Knight’s power. Piacenza decided to adapt this idea in order to allow his new piece to reach any square on the board (otherwise the Centurion would have been color-bound and limited to half the board).
So, Piacenza’s Centurion jumps when moving like a Knight but does not leap on the rows, columns and diagonals.
In my opinion, the CVP would be inspired to give the genuine rules and not the wrong ones.
Piacenza's book is findable on the Internet. I can provide the photographs of those pages if someone is interested.
Last word for HG: there is nothing about a specific en-passant rule in that description of Arciscacchiere by Piacenza. So your implementation is not incorrect in my opinion. The description of this variant being at the end of Piacenza's technical book about chess, it is possible that this peculiar restriction was given for the orthodox chess that was presented by Piacenza. Then, someone would have extrapolated to the large chess variant as well. Again, we are not obliged to follow this as it is not written.
ArchCourier Chess. This game is Courier Chess expert Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hmm, I count 4 pieces in between Q and R here: RF, BW, KN, Sq. So 6 pieces at >5, what is left is the Bs, a Man which is equal to the B and thus not so light, and finally the weakest is the N. I believe it is much heavier than Capablanca's. That's perfect if you like bloody battles.
Very nice application, I have enjoyed to play.
It is an appealling modernization of Courier chess but to my taste, the board is somehow too small for so many strong pieces.
Maasai Chess. Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Aurelian, I have no idea. This rule has always been sort of academic for me, I have never played a game of any kind when it has been necessary to use this rule. So, you can change to 75 if you feel is better.
I get the same. Maybe something is wrong in the setting of the invitation
Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Daniel: on the GC page for Skica, there is no link to send to this Skica page here. The word "Skica" under the diagram is not active a as link.
Also this GC page has (in its bottom) a link to a Skical preset, but this link goes to 404 Error.
I have a game on-going. My opponent had misunderstood the moves of the Ski-pieces. He thought that these pieces must hop a piece in the first square to move, which could be a wrong interpretation of "but always hops over the first square". He had not realised that they may cross an empty first square. Maybe you could be more specific in the text.
I like this game.
No, I think we have said everything. Initially I just posted an idea with a very open mindset, as a game to see more proposals, because I found Daniel's ideas excellent. Instead all I got were answers a bit rude, at least this how I received them, and you came last, sorry. Not a single positive comment, I guess my idea was really bad. Many people here are programmers or skilled in computer science, which is excellent. Hence, those discussions based on rhetorics with comparisons, extrapolations, generalisations, to prove by A+B that someone is right and the someone else is wrong. But I'm not a computer and I know that I'm not always consistent or logical (actually nobody is). And probably over sensitive sometimes as I don't master this language with enough subtilities. Let's close this here now, there is no problem.
Hopefully one has still the right to have a different opinion. It is the first time I hear that there is a minimum of games required. Counter-examples are many. In fact most of fairy pieces have been named by problemists on their very first use.
I don't think either that naming 3 pieces is an attempt to name the infinite number of possible chess variant pieces. Your comparison is an exaggeration.
I do think they are worth of special attention, again is my opinion. I respect yours, respect mine.
Thanks @Daniel for the links.
I fully feel like you: It's quickly hard for me to read those Man & Beast pages, too dense, broken diagrams (which I don't find diverting).
I also think the jumping ability of the 3 ski-pieces makes a big difference. Skica looks to me as a very good game to test them.
This is why I'm convinced that they deserve to have a name of their own and not being simply prefixed avatars. Nor named with the volapukian manner found in the Man & Beast pages.
Fwiw?
Thanks. That link is not in the Skica page and is not in the Alphabetical Index. (And in the Alphabetical Index there is no shortcut for Sk).
Have you made a GC to play this game?
Bicyle, Bireme, Biplane: Daniel, the use of "bi" as a kind of prefix is bizarre for me in this context. "Bi" evokes the notion of twice or double, which is not present. I even prefer "ski" because it may me think of skipping. Anyway, having the 3 starting with the same letter if not the best imo.
"This makes an easy mnemonics for the names, but is a bit catastrophic for the move notation and other places where a piece has to be identified by a single-letter ID. "
Isn't "catastrophic" a bit negative comment here? Lets's be constructive among us. There are only 26 letters in our alphabet, we have to deal with this kind of issue always. If you use Ski-Rook, Ski-Queen, Ski-Bishop, the 3 of them start with S which is not better anyway.
"And I wonder how much the mnemonic is worth; these are only helpful if you already know the names, but are not sure which name belongs to which piece. "
I don't understand what you mean. Imagine I discover Skica. I know it has the 3 new pieces. OK, this one is the Bat, this I can see because the icon of the Bat will not look like anything else. Bat -> it is a kind of lame Bishop, not a lame Rook or Queen. I don't see what is not clear here.
"But most people would not even be aware that pieces of this type exist at all."
Most people know nothing about the fauna of CV anyway. If they come here, I guess they are ready to know that we play with fairy pieces. I probably miss the point.
I try to propose something. These 3 pieces are somehow flying, at least I see them like this. And I agree with HG, they belong to the special category of compound pieces doing this-then-that. I propose 3 names, not used in other CV (with a small note on one of them), and which start with an initial letter reminding of their parent in the pure riders' world.
Quetzal for (A?B)(D?R)
Raven for (D?R), with another semantic link with the bird rook
Bat for (A?B)
The 3 are fling, different enough to be drawn as recognisable icons easily.
They fit with a family where are already Osprey, Ostrich or Condor, Pegasus, Eagle or Gryphon. (The use of Raven has been reported for RNN but the RNN is better known as Waran or Varan, which put the syllabes in the other order.)
That could be my proposal.
My earliest post on that seems to have been ignored. I try to ask again the question, I don't understand being the only one feeling the need for that:
I would find useful to have "What's New" appearing directly on the "Explore" menu of the top bar.
If I'm not wrong, it only appear under "Topic Index" in the "Explore" menu, which is a bit burried.
What do you think? Is my suggestion stupid, maybe I've missed something?
Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I agree these pieces are very interesting. I prefer them to some "bent-hopper-riders" like the Osprey, Ostrich, etc. In my opinion they should deserve better names than Ski-something. (Skiing is not obviously connected to the idea of hopping for me, sorry, I'm a very good skier!) Maybe we should open a competition for the best proposal. Who's want to start?
Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Same for me. GC not displaying the diagrams for the games on-going.
Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Just to make sure about the moves of the Ski-XXX. Can they hop over the 1st square if it is occupied or not? For example, is the Ski-Bishop moving as Alfil-then-Bishop, A(A-B) or like Tamerlane Chess Talia which needs a first square empty, nA(A-B) ?
I would find useful to have "What's New" appearing directly on the "Explore" menu of the top bar.
If I'm not wrong, it only appear under "Topic Index" in the "Explore" menu, which is a bit burried.
This is just a suggestion
In my opinion, we should add a diagram with conventional graphics (could be Alfaerie SVG, HG's Interactive diagram, Musketeer C. board design tool, ...) every time there is a diagram with the abstract set. It can be afforded to have both, so everyone will be happy. And it will be clear for everyone :=)
Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Right now it works again.
I cannot access anymore to my page "Your Games On Game Courier". I just get a white screen. Same with "Game Logs".
Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I was looking for the GC page for Tiger Chess. It is not visible in the Alphabetical Index. To find it I had to go in the database of the logs. Maybe someone can add this GC page for Tiger Chess in the Alphabetical Index?
Courier-Spiel. 19th century variant of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It is a little detail, but I recently observed that the initials of this 19th German author, Albers, is not H.G. but H.C. It is H.C. Albers. The mistake comes from the title page of his book, Unterricht im Schachspiele which is written (as well as the full book) with Gothic script. There is no doubt, the C of H.C. is the same than the C. of Courierspiele.
I don't know who was the first to make that mistake, then it crawled in many places including my own books. Fortunately we can also find some sources which are correct now, like Georgi Markov's papers.
Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Indeed, M for caMel. Another mnemotechnic is M with 2 humps like the camel.
Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I understand the logic of the diagram with abstract pieces, but for me it requests a supplementary mental effort to figure out which one is what. IMO it works fine with the 6 standard pieces, but in this case with all combinations it is an extreme, and not really needed, difficulty. I believe that adding a conventional diagram would help the recognition of this game. I have one ready that I can post or send.
The Fairychess Include File Tutorial. How to use the fairychess include file to program games for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Would it be possible to add a Wildebeest (=Knight+Camel) to this fairychess? Thank you
Squirrel Chess. Adapted from Squirrels and Camels Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Squirrel Chess must get some examinations. I'm playing a game on Game Courier. According to the Game Courier page, where the rules are not enforced, the board is 8x8 and the Guard plays as a Man, a non-royal King. The link "Squirrel chess" on that Game Courier page of Squirrel Chess sends to a page of "The rule of chess".
Now, I have also found this page on which I am now, "Squirrel Chess". Here the board is 10x10 and the Guard is like at Hiashatar, a piece moving like a King but also deflecting attacking pieces.
So they are 2 different games! Same name and same author.
Can the inventor clarify these and/or the editors be aware of this situation which is confusing?
Thank you
Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you. I couldn't see it.
I hope this game will be coded to be played on Game Courier with enforced rules in next future
Game Courier User's Guide. How to play games with the CV Play-by-Mail system.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The issue is that apparently you understand what you are doing whereas for me is like sitting in front of a Boeing cockpit control panel. Maybe this semantic is well known of people playing chess in competition, tournament, etc. but for occasional players without such experience is tough.
Otherwise I see the answers (thanks), some saying to use exclusively "grace time", others to set "grace time" to 0 and use "min time" only. My understanding is that there are different appreciations of these notions, so it is not so straightforward. OK OK, I will continue to try and find a setting which works for me.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Dear Sir, thank you very much for your detailed comment and recommendations. I agree with what you say, it is common sense.
I had a problem with another unfinished game, but in this case I knew the player: he lost his terminal at one moment, and then when he got a new one, he explained to me that he could not play again because he was asking to accept cookies when connecting to CVP, and for some reasons I can't understand, he was very (very very) afraid to accept cookies. Seeing no issue and after waiting about 3 months, I have decided to delete this game that was in its end with a desperate position for him. (In fact I had already accepted not to play a checkmating move on one mistake from him few moves before).
The Fantastic XIII game which is unfinished is a pity. My opponent, RM, had made the invitation, not me. This person has played a lot of games recently on CVP, many with me, with no problem. I hope he has no serious issue and that he will come back playing one day. Indeed, I will delete this game one day if he does not show up after a while, let say in 2 or 3 months from now.
I agree that it is better to invite with timed games. The problem I see is that is very complex. The system in GC is certainly very elaborated, able to do many things for many different situations, but it is not user-friendly for common users like me, in my opinion. I would just need a mode which is ending after 1 or 2 months of non-activity of one side, a mode that can be selected by ticking just one box, not entering several parameters with subtile names. See www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/userguide.html#timecontrols. Or maybe a set of Spare T, Grace T, Min T could be recommended in the invitation form for something simple. Of course, if I'm the only one in difficulty with that, never mind. Thank to all for your answers, I have appreciated that exchange of points of view.
Thanks
@Kevin: how do you delete hanging untimed games?
@Daniel : sure timed games work. This system seems very complete but it is far much complex for me. I have read the explanations maybe 30 times and at the end I don t understand the numerous parameters. But this is not the issue here
I think that playing at least once in 2 months in a game that will require 80 or 100 moves is a fair minimum. Otherwise better resigning and not play at all. I don t catch the interest for someone to play one move every 2 months. It is unpolite and not respecting the opponent.
When I look at my page of "Your Games on Game Courier" I see several lines which correspond to games that are not finished because my opponent stopped to play. I don't know what was the reason my opponent stopped to play, but it was in most of the cases for games on which my position was quite stronger than his. I don't like to see games unfinished like this, and I think it is unfair. Would it be possible for the editors to fix a hard limit, say 30 days or 60 days, after which a game not played will be automatically considered lost for the player who had to play? And won for the other player, the last to have played.
This would clean the tables which have many unfinished games.
Do other users of CVP agree with me?
How to Design and Post Your Own Game. A reference for those who want to post their own games here.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I fully agree.
Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Dear Todor, i dont have an easy connection right now and it is confusing because sometimes i see the joyleap setup, sometimes the regular one. But it should be easy to edit the preset, change the FEN code and save with a new name.
Paragi. Shogi without drop rule + Strong pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is a matter if etymology. Today, hautbois only means the music instrument. The etymology is "high woodwind" really. The apostrophe is not a letter, it is a sign separating 2 words. The d' is for "de" meaning "of" in front of a vowel. Amour is love, yes. Damour means nothing, it is a word that you invented. You could have Dodoodoo and Hahaha, I m joking.
Of course you can name your pieces as you like . Concerning Haut and Damour, you use words coming from French, my language so i can give you some information. It is Hautbois d'Amour not Damour. In 2 words, not 1. It means of love. So using Damour is like if you say Oflove. Haut means High, simply. (Hautbois is high wood). Naming pieces High and Oflove is kind of strange.
I am not an editor anymore. English is not my tongue but it seems to me that this page would deserves a serious revision by an editor. There are typos. Some writing is strange. Not sure that endmate is a correct world and i don t understand this rule well. Some names are bizarre. Why Haut and Damour? Why Angel instead of Amazon much better known? Ship and Templar have been used for other moves. Apart from these critics, thus game looks nice.
Three Realms Chess. A three layer variant with familiar and fantastical pieces. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Forget my comment about Imp, I see what it is. And I should have remembered the Furious Fiend from shogivariants.
Yes nice! I suggest to add a definition for "cardinal". Is that synonym of Orthogonal in this context? Maybe some diagrams would help understanding the moves. I have seen a typo : heaens. Why these name of Imp and Fiend? I have to check, I don t know these words in English.
Mirodoly. Members-Only Piececlopedia: Mirodoly. Some theoretical principles of the analysis of pieces, both for classical chess and for modern chess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
I'm not an editor but I agree with Ben R. This entry is at best a joke, or at worst an attempt to demonstrate that anything can be published on the CVP.
I would say that this page was made in 3mn with a smartphone. thosam looks like a typo of Thomas.
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]May someone correct the typo on the title of this page "A Game Courier Preset for 4-Handed Chatarunga"?
It is not Chatarunga, it is Chaturanga.
From "Chatur", meaning "four" in sanskrit.
Thanks
Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I wouldn't switch courier and knight. The charm is to respect the historical setup of Courier chess. That position for the knight, next to the rook is not unusual to my eyes.
Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Seems to work. What a mighty piece!
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It was back to normal around noon, European time, but now (6:30 PM, Paris time) is awful again, sloooooooooow, impossible to play or read a page. Am I the only one with that problem? Is there anything changed I have to care of?
For me the CVP is really really slow. It's really a pain. What's going on?
Game Courier User's Guide. How to play games with the CV Play-by-Mail system.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you Samuel for your explanations. I would recommend to the Editors to put your example in the explanation of those time notions. Not only it is complex to have “spare time”, “min time”, “extra time”, “bonus time”, etc. but the explanations, sorry to say, are themselves so complex that after reading the end it is impossible to remember. In other word, it is not understandable.
In my opinion, the way it is practiced in Lichess is largely quite enough and sufficient for chess variants play.
I would vote for simplifying our process.
Thanks again
I don't know if it is me, or if it happens to others too, but I confess: I don't catch nothing at all in the explanations of Time Controls. It is not a problem of English, I'm used to read complex scientific stuff in English. Maybe it is because I never played chess in official competitions and I'm lacking some notions.
I wanted to put a time limit because I've been frustrated in some recent games to see opponents stopping to play after being in a difficult situation. Doing so, they never loose. An unfair behaviour certainly, I wanted to avoid this.
So I set a time limit but frankly I don't understand at all what I have selected and the effect it may have. I just guess there is a limit somehow.
Hi Aurelian. I belong to those who are not at ease with NN. Same with DD or AA and all their compounds. I had tested once a FDD to finally give it up. But I agree that they can be used if the game is designed for, like yours. It also requires a certain anticipation from the players who are not used to, and this is precisely what I'm missing from my side.
I've found this app for Android. At first sight, it looks great, with many chess variants (and other games). I understand there is also the possibility to create his/her own variant. Anyone knows how good it is? Anyone knows who is behind Chess Remix?
Wild Tamerlane Chess. Game Courier Preset to play Wild Tamerlane Chess, a fury on 11x11 board. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you :=)
I repost also this message: This page is done too. It sends to a Game Courier preset with enforced rules for Wild Tamerlane. It could replace an existing page with the same title, https://www.chessvariants.com/play/wild-tamerlane-chess, which points to a Game Courier Present not coded with no rules enforced.
Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]In case it had been unread, I re-post this message: this page is ready
Expanded Chess. An attempt at a logical expansion of Chess to a 10x10 board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]W^B is referred as Manticore on CVP. An Aanca is F^R, Gryphon here. This is an old tiring discussion.
Grand Riders Chess. Members-Only Chess with cross over between Cavalier Chess and Shogun Chess and use the normal riders.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
ArchMage Chess. 10x10 30v30 Fantasy Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you Cyrus for your understanding. Having a theme is good. I wish you success with ArchMage Chess.
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That's crazy. I use a Mac Book. I am looking with Safari and I see this: