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Thank you. So it's a mystery.

@Ben, thanks. It works now. I've posted a new chess variant already.

I try this applet but it doesn't work for me, probably I'm doing wrong.

I use the white grid, in "Move definition aid". I tick some squares, they become orange. Then if I tick any of the 3 right-side buttons, for example "both", then the orange disappear, all squares on the diagram are white again and I see nothing where a Betza notation is supposed to appear.

I've tried on a Mac with Safari and Firefox.

Am I doing wrong ?

Thanks

@HG The problem is that the piece pictures are not properly displayed. But I cannot see any bug as the end of the pregame section is the same to my two other presets that work fine. This is what I meant

@Daniel Do you see the same problem ?

What is the difference between the play-test applet and the diagram?

@HG, I don't see the problem.

I don't understand what problem you don't see. You wouldn't be posting this here if you did not see some problem.

Is there a way to have different promotion options for different pieces, as in shogi?

Not in the Play-Test-Applet. The Diagram itself of course supports it, and the Design Wizard as well. But it does require a more complex interface than the Play-Test Applet has to specify that. Because it requires the pieces to be listed in the Diagram in some specific order to associate the correct promoted form to a base piece. And the Play-Test Applet uses the order of the table from which you select the pieces. It is already a bit inconvenient to have promotion to pieces that are not initially on the board; in order to generate a Diagram or GAME code that would include those pieces you wuld have to drag those somewher on the board after having pressed the Initial Position button, but before generating the HTML or GAME code.

I am not sure how a Shogi-type promotion could be defined. Perhaps it could be done by, after defining the initial position by pressing the button, replacing all pieces in it by their promoted versions, and then hit some 'Promotion Assignment' button.

@HG, I don't see the problem. To me it seems that this preset should work like the other 2!

Is there a way to have different promotion options for different pieces, as in shogi?

I clarified the ambiguity associated with the interpretation of the double-step rule and also emphasized the identity of the pieces' movement to other hexagonal variants. I will also add extra information, related to this variant in the near future.

The settings files themselves seem to be cleared, but the links to them are still showing.

It does not seem to be that as in play mode it works ok, HG. Also trouble begins with ply 2 which is quite weird!

Is there no one interested in this?

It works well now!

Okay, those are deleted.

It looks like you are not retrieving the value of the constant properly. The line

setsystem space startshuffle;

should be either

setsystem space const startshuffle;

or

setsystem space @startshuffle;

I would like the following presets deleted:

betzatest (Yangsi) - This preset was accidentally saved during a test of H. G. Muller Game Code Generator for his interactive diagrams, and is no longer needed.

default2, promotest (Suzumu Shogi) - The promotest preset was made in an attempt to resolve the server-side multi-move promotion bug, and is no longer needed. The default2 preset was made during the final phase of experimentation trying to find a good starting position for Suzumu Shogi, and is no longer needed now that the starting position is finalized.

There shouldn't be any game logs using these presets, as they redirect to the correct presets, so they should be pretty easy to delete.