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@Kevin Kevin for pocket Shogi Copper is the "White has won" a major issue? If yes, I might be able to adjust the code. When I wrote the code I think I may have reversed the shogi pieces. i.e. black is white, and white is black. I think I reversed the label names in the programming section, and I am guessing that is the issue for white has won. The combination of reverse pieces and the labels most likely is the cause for pocket shogi copper white has won.

Do you want me to try and fix it?

Yes OK, it's back to normal now. Thx

Try to refresh (f5 or ctrl+f5) to reload the new style

@Fergus: now in the table "Your Games on Game Courier", I just can't read my on-going games because they appear dark on a black square.

@Fergus: to complete my message, Paul sees "logging your move". And from my side, it is still to Paul to play.

This is why I suggest that you withdraw my last move of the log to have me playing the next move.

Thank you

@Fergus: it doesn't work. Paul said he has played again but I can't see that. For me the game is still in the same position, waiting for his move to come. Paul is even less confortable than me with the interface, I suspect he has not got what to do.

Would it possible that you kill the last move from me so the turn would me mine, not his, and maybe I'll be able to unblock this game?

Thanks a lot for your help.

@HG: it is really a mess to recover this!

Yes, I am very sorry about this. I do know this site should not be used as a alpha-test facility. But the include file did contain a bug that had to be fixed, and I was dealing with some apparently illogical and therefore unpredictable behavior of GAME code itself.

@Fergus: wouldn't it be better to include the application of the PHP intval operator in the implementation of piececount itself, so that it would return the expected 0 for pieces that are not on the board?

It might also be useful to apply intval to the operands of arithmetic operators such as +. (Or is that very detrimental, performance-wise?) I was really baffled by that 1 + undefined = 0.

OK, I do that. Let's see.

(Why his page has no Content and Activity remains a mystery for me)

Just tell Paul to go here:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Timurid&log=timurthelenk-numerist-2024-41-899&userid=numerist

@Fergus: alas Paul (a.k.a. Numerist) is not able to access this game again. He cannot see the link. When I send the link to him, he is getting a generic Game courrier page, not the right log. I asked him to go to his personal page from the top bar, then select Personal Information, then see Content and Activity, then Games Played on Chess Courier (when I do that myself, I see the log, but it is to Paul to play), but then, it is incredible he has NO Content and Activity section! So nowhere he could access to the games he had played in the past! He sent me a screen copy to show me.

So we are blocked. Can you remove one more move in order that it will be my turn to move at this game?

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Timurid&log=timurthelenk-numerist-2024-41-899

@HG: it is really a mess to recover this!

I fixed things up better. I had to delete some more lines from the log. The logs page is saying the game is drawn, but Paul should be able to move by clicking on the button for him to move after viewing the game.

Thank you Fergus. HG had said that he had already fixed his code. So, shall I conclude that it is hopeless? Frustrating to loose a game between France and Canada after more than 50 moves.

I removed the last two moves, and I deleted it from the FinishedGames table, but when I loaded it again, it again said you won and put a record in the FinishedGames table again. So I deleted it from there again. Leave it alone until HG tells you he has fixed his code.

@Fergus: can you, if it is possible, that you re-put this game 1 or 2 moves before it has been terminated by HG's error:

timurthelenk-numerist-2024-41-899

Thank you

Aargh. I understand. @Fergus, can you do something, like getting this game back 1 or 2 moves? Thanks

Sorry, this is my fault. I was debugging the GAME code include file, and to that end apparently put some code in there that was not so innocent as I thought. I already removed that code, (it was only there for a few seconds), but I don't know how to fix an erroneously declared game end.

Help!

While playing this log (at Timurid) with Paul, helenk-numerist-2024-41-899, I (white) captured his Bishop and I got this message:

// - check! -// - White lost by absence of royalty! -

Does anyone know why? I never got such a message at any game. Did I make something wrong when coding this GC?

Thanks

Ah yes, I apparently missed some of the print statements I put in for debugging when removing those, after the problem suddenly ceased to exist before I found out what it was. In short games like I tested on this is not noticeable.

I removed them now.

It looks like HG has included some debugging code that needs to be removed.

@HG: while playing some of my games, for example this log:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Bigorra&log=arx-cvgameroom-2023-268-980

At every click, to open the game, then when moving a piece, then when confirming the move, etc., the screen displays a page with a lot of lines as the ones I copy and paste here below.

That screen disapears quickly with apparently no consequence, so it is not a major problem, but it is disturbing. This phenomena has started 1 week ago or so. It happens also on other logs where I'm playing. It seems to be related to the locust-stuff.

I don't understand what has been changed.

Please report any bugs or errors to H.G. 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This was my fault. It was calling a function that didn't exist for your choice of rendering method without first checking whether it existed. I have now put in the check.

@Fergus and/or @HG:

In the following log I cannot move since the page does not load correctly.

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Cetran+Chess+3&log=sissa-cvgameroom-2024-39-687&userid=sissa

The preset was edited through the Play-test applet. Could you please take a look at it. Thanks!

How come a problem like this can cure itself is a real mystery for me.

To me as well; it should not be possible. Unless there was some hardware error, where a faulty memory bit was causing the program not to behave as it should, and that after some time it ended up in another area of the memory. The problem should not have existed in the first place; if the last-moved Pawn would disappear after every piece move it should have been discovered much earlier.

OK thank you Fergus. With a small kind explanation the things are much better perceived.