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Citadel. Simple chess variant from early 20th century on 45 degrees turned board. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jan 11 04:47 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:54 AM:

If you would specify an empty string (graphicsType= ) then it would not append anything (and even omit the dot that normally separates the filename from the extension).

I didn't know that. I commented out my code, and got no piece images when I reloaded this page. I then updated this page to use graphicsType=, and I saw the pieces again when I reloaded.

But I am wondering if fen2.php can be used with file names that include file extensions. When I tried omitting t and assigning p to an URL, whether full or relative, it didn't show an image.


H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jan 11 07:54 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Wed Jan 10 09:28 PM:

I added CSS to rotate the Interactive Diagram -45 degrees to match the original diagram.

Cool! I did not know that CSS could do that.

I don't quite understand your remark about the p extension, and why this would have to be coupled to the use of a theme. If the Diagram appends an extension, it is because you asked it to do so with graphicsType=gif. That makes it add .gif to the image URL. If you would specify an empty string (graphicsType= ) then it would not append anything (and even omit the dot that normally separates the filename from the extension). If you would leave out the graphicsType line altogether it would use a default, which I don't remember, but will certainly not be an empty string.


Bn Em wrote on Thu, Jan 11 01:00 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Wed Jan 10 09:28 PM:

That's… oddly disconcerting, at least at first. But very cool


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Jan 10 09:28 PM UTC:

I added CSS to rotate the Interactive Diagram -45 degrees to match the original diagram. I then modified /cgi-bin/fen2.php to remove the extension of p (for piece) when t (for theme) has a non-empty value so that it can more easily be used with Interactive Diagrams, and I used this to rotate each piece 45 degrees. This counters the -45 degree rotation of the board, making them all appear upright.


Jeff Rients wrote on Sat, Dec 11, 2010 12:04 PM UTC:
Boardgamegeek.com has a page with photographs: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10252/citadel

Karen Robinson wrote on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 01:51 PM UTC:
There is a photocopy of the original rules here:

http://www.smorgasboardofgames.com/db_Parker_Brothers/PDF_Rules/db_Citadel_Rules.pdf

John Savard wrote on Fri, May 16, 2008 07:15 PM UTC:
This game was manufactured and sold by Parker Brothers. One web site has a photograph of a set, but the site owner did not know the rules to the game. A PDF version of the rules booklet, however, is available on the Hasbro web site.

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