Comments by jean-louiscazaux
Do you have more information on Cardinal Super Chess. I mean more than what is in Pritchard's? I wonder what are the rules for Pawn's initial move, castling and Pawn's promotion. These were probably described in the game leaflet but I don't have it.
It's my fault. The incriminated photos are wrong. I had to remove them but I forgot. I do it now. Thank you.
For the connection with Cardinal Super Chess I have to investigate.
HG, I smile. "Pourquoi faire simple quand c'est si simple de faire compliqué ?", as we say here, could be the answer to your statement. :=) I try to focus a bit on my project to make it progress. But soon or later I will have to try your applet, I'm curious anyhow to see how it works. Promise, I will. Thanks to all.
OK thanks. At last I understand. I'm not an IS expert, I can't get into all this. Too much things to learn, after 10 lines of reading of these long pages of tutorials, I'm lost. Every change I made is to understand that I have to change something else and I don't know where this will drive me. I give up, I can't spend more time on this, I am busy with other projects. Going back to my first demand, I prefer that this preset remains not accessible as it is an unfinished work.
Thanks I'm learning little by little. So much knowledge to absorb.
I have switched chess2 to fairychess but now I can't play at all.
I get:
Syntax Error on line 722
The function '' has not been defined. Its arguments are a10 e1
Line 722 is:
722 if fn const alias #piece #from var king
I don't understand what's wrong
Thank you for your help.
For en-passant, I had put already fps to 3. The pawn can advance 1, 2, 3 yes but the problem is en-passant. A pawn on 6 can take ep a pawn which advance 3 sq. Good. A pawn on 7 can take ep a pawn which advance 2 sq. Good. But a pawn on 7 cannot take ep a pawn which advance 3 sq.
Gross chess works fine for that. I can't see where is what I miss for Devingt.
The page for Devingt Chess is OK.
But the preset GC for Devingt Chess is not OK. It should not be published as this. It is an unfinished work because I don't know how to code several rules:
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castling: the K may move 2 OR 3 sq towards the R
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en-passant: a pawn on 7 should be able to take en-passant an opposed pawn that had moved 3 sq.
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promotion: only for captured pieces, a pawn on 9 cannot step on 10 if no piece is available.
Taijitu Qi. Xiang Qi pieces are joined by (but not combined with) their duals. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes , perhaps. It would deserve to be corrected.
I don't understand these rules.
The river and the fortresses are not shown on the diagram.
The fortress is said "(back 2 cells of middle 2 files)". I see 9 files. Which ones are the 2 middle?
The rule says "Wazirs and Ferzes cannot leave the Fortress". But they start on the 3rd rank, out of the Fortress if I well understood. How come they cannot leave it, they are not in it?
Heavy Shako. 
10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]In my understanding, castling is like in chess (and in Shako) and Pawn's promotion is as Fergus says.
Why using a Ram to represent the Buffalo? Why not using a "Wildebeest" icon, https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/alfaerieSVG/wwildebeest.svg ?
Dou Shou Qi: The Battle of Animals - The Jungle Game. Simulated conflict between animal kingdoms. (7x9, Cells: 63) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game is played with many variants, and even the Chinese Wikipedia page indicates a variant where Dog > Wolf. And also with Tiger > Lion. I prefer too playing with Wolf > Dog, but we should agree that it does not matter so much, the situations where Wolf encounters Dog are very rare.
Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes, it's efficient. Now I can edit and save. Thank you.
Fergus, Ben made changes that were supposed to let me edit the page for Shako to modify it. Please read Ben's comment. I can edit the page (this is why I thought it worked) but I can't save because I'm asking the pwd from someone else (faizmirza).
On the 404 page, it would be nice if the link with the new URL could be put above the picture and not below, because as it is, it needs to scroll down the page to see it.
Thanks
I don't know how I had found it worked. Today, it doesn't work, I'm asked the pwd for fairmirza.
As for all other pages where I had a link to the Shako pages, actually large.dir/shako.html , indeed I get a 404 now. So I have to modify all my pages one by one, and if other pages from other authors have made a link to my Shako, now it's dead.
Looks like it works. Thanks to you Ben and Fergus!
Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you for the explanation. How I should I do to enter a promotion manually?
I'm playing a game of Eurasian Chess with GC and I was expecting to get a promotion when I advanced my Pawn on the last 3 ranks. But nothing happened and the Pawn remained a Pawn.
Ski-whatever is a bizarre name to my ears. Like if the piece was skiing. What's the meaning of ski- in English in this context?
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I tried Fantastic XIII, and also Shako and Expanded Chess and the link doesn't work, it always goes to 404. Maybe we don't speak of the same thing.
I speak of the link with the name of the game which is written just below the diagram in the GC page.
Same observation than Daniel from my side
Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks Aurelian, but I won't. I was just wondering if Gross chess could be good with less material because I would have made it like this if I had been the inventor. But, I'm not and it is normal that we have different views, tastes, etc. Moreover, I'm a terrible player so my opinion is not a reference. Thanks for all replies. It's nice to have a place like this to discuss. In any case, Gross Chess is OK as is, and one of the most popular on this place.
I understand your points. If there was 1 BN on b1/b12 and 1 RN on k1/k12 only, all your specs would be respected: all pieces can move behind the lines, all pawns are protected, the Cannons keep their mobility. Just there is no symmetry for BN and RN, but there is no symmetry for Queen either and this is not illogical. I have understood that the reason why you had 2 BNs,2 RNs is because you owned 2 physical Gothic chess sets. An option to play with a single BN/RN set would be worth to consider maybe. Just wondering.
My initial question was about having 2 BN and 2 RN. I was thinking in a setup with only 1 of each.
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I added a note to mention the similarity with Cardinal Super Chess. At this moment I don't know what were the details rules. The inventor of Devingt Chess was ignorant of Cardinal Super Chess nor the other similar variants. It seems that this game or a similar one is, like chess for 3 players, chess for 4 players, chess on hex, a chess variant which is "invented" often and rather regularly. This one is not the first and probably not the last one on 10x10 boards with Camels.