Ratings & Comments

The state‐transition tables seem to me a slightly overcomplicated way of saying that pieces move one way on White squares and another on Black squares ... .

What can I say?
Variants are not always easy. The basic idea is there and must be realized. You can perhaps say that the basic idea is nonsense. But I believe that it has been implemented properly. After all, it's about switching between black and white - and it seems to be possible in this way. With a little getting used to, it's not difficult.
 

I am not aware of any such sources.

set all == mln $maxmln;          // indicates last move

Note there is no $ there, so we might be talking about different things, and this one might be a legacy variable.

This operator just outputs the value of $mln.

I cannot image how this would work if mln was not the current move number.

It works because you are comparing mln with its maximum value. When there are comments, $maxmln will be greater than any move number, but it will be no higher than mln will eventually reach.

I don't think there was any suggestion that the idea is no good, or the implementation was flawed. Just that the presentated explanation of it is very cumbersome.

I agree with Bn Em that it would be much better explained by not presenting this as pieces that change, but just stating that the orthodox pieces get some extra moves on some of the squares. And then show a table that mentions the extra moves for each piece, and on which squares it would get those.

I am not familiar with this technique, but a problem could be that it is not just about positioning the images, but also about translating mouse clicks to cell coordinates. (Which must also work for empty cells, for entering non-captures.) In the table version I have attached event handlers to the cells for this.

With grid, you would use a <div> tag instead of a <td> tag for each space, and you could attach event handlers to it just as easily. What I have done in Game Courier, though, is place a transparent image over each empty space, as I have attached event handlers to the piece images.

OK, so the betza.txt code, which thus aims to test for whether the move is the one that was just entered, would work fine even in the presence of comments?

And the code to test for whether we are in prelude should look like

if == 0 $mline[$mln]->movenum:

?

Seems to be a matter of taste.
I have adjusted it and hope I am now right.

if == 0 $mline[$mln]->movenum:

That is mixing GAME Code with PHP. GAME Code does not support classes with properties or write out array elements with brackets, and it doesn't provide read access to $mline. But you can use the value of turn with your knowledge of which side you're concerned with to determine where you are in a game.

I'm actually starting to lean back towards the Bishop + Squirrel move for Chu Seireigi and Dai Seireigi, since in my test game of Chusei with you, if the Lion had the KNAD move you would be able to force mate in 3 with just the Lion, and I don't want one piece to steal all the show from the others.

Edit: Looking at the current position you can still force mate in 3, but you need to get more pieces involved.

=== @Mr.H.G.Muller

       Dear respected Mr.H.G.Muller,
             Could you do me a favor by giving me a hint on the coding?

          I want to write vertical high pole  as:   rfF  rfN  rfC  rfFX .    
       I come across problems writing the next higher piece on the vertical pole.      Is it possible that you might give me some hint?
 Thanks a lot. I appreciate your aid.

sincerely, Adella.

I think I've mentioned in our game chat why I prefer KNAD (or, to me, KNS) for the Lion: it does at least have some history. I don't know of anywhere else where a Lion is BNS. (Even so, if it had an adjective on the name, reflected by a compound in the Greenwade graphic, I could deal with it.)

I have changed forpersonid to author in the link, and it now works.

For this Fairy piece there is a forced mate (K+FP vs k) in 125 moves: rWbrFfDlfflNlA

Can anyone create a piece that can force a checkmate in more moves?

Circular Chess 2.0 by Green Lemon Games

@François Houdebert,

I made one last change to Chu Seireigi and Dai Seireigi, renaming the Lion to Lion Hawk to avoid confusion with the Chu Shogi Lion, while also keeping the Bishop + Squirrel move from before, whose Jocly code is shown below.

graph: this.cbDropGraph(geometry, [[-2,0],[-2,-1],[-2,-2],[-1,-2],[0,-2],[1,-2],[2,-2],[2,-1],[2,0],[2,1],[2,2],[1,2],[0,2],[-1,2],[-2,2],[-2,1]],[[1,1],[1,-1],[-1,1],[-1,-1]]),

(Keeping the Lion Hawk's value at 11 is reasonable, as it is basically equal in strength to a Queen, and may sometimes even have a light advantage)

In case you are wondering what a "Lion Hawk" is, I imagine it as a Japanese version of a griffin.

For the new diffusemap, simply use the Tenjiku Shogi Lion Hawk diffusemap.

For the 2D sprite, the best choice in my opinion for this piece may be the sprite two spaces to the left of the "gem" image in this spritesheet, as it resembles a griffin head with cat-like ears, at least to me. (If for some crazy reason you plan on implementing Dai Seireigi in Jocly, I would save the "falcon" image used for the griffin in other Jocly presets for the Flying Falcon or Cloud Eagle).

If you can implement these changes on the biscandine site that would be great.

P.S. Thanks for playing that test game with me. It helped me finalize the Lion Hawk's move.

Ferz/Hospitaler Hunter: 130

This doesn't explain the fact that in Heian Shogi and Sho Shogi, the Knight has the same movement as in today's Shogi. My pet theory on this and the Lance's forward-only slide is that the Bushido Code has something to do with it. The Bushido code, which says surrender is the worst dishonor, and by proxy shames cowardice, may have been inprinted on the game by making certain pieces forward-only.

How this piece move?

You are right. This piece: bFfhNfA mates in 130.

Can anybody top this?

There are now svg files that can be printed on play mats, e.g. :

https://glyphobet.net/three-player-chess/svg/hexagonal_tiles.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hexagonal_chess_board.svg

rfNX rfCX rfFXX rfNXX ...