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Plus, DZ's comment appeared after a negative amount of seconds.
How did you determine that? What should I be looking for?
I can't create new game invitations. The full invitation page isn't showing up, only the top part with the game board.
I have fixed that.
The OS is Rocky Linux 8.6.
I was looking for the GC page for Tiger Chess. It is not visible in the Alphabetical Index. To find it I had to go in the database of the logs. Maybe someone can add this GC page for Tiger Chess in the Alphabetical Index?
The site has moved to a new server running a more up-to-date OS with more recent versions of PHP and MariaDB.
What OS exactly is that? If I know that, I could install it on a VM, and try if I can get the piece server to compile.
Plus, DZ's comment appeared after a negative amount of seconds.
I can't create new game invitations. The full invitation page isn't showing up, only the top part with the game board.
The site has moved to a new server running a more up-to-date OS with more recent versions of PHP and MariaDB. In case this breaks anything, please report any issues you're having with the site here.
The site has moved to a new server running a more up-to-date OS and database. In case this breaks anything, please report any issues you're having with the site here.
Is it just subject threads or also comments I can't post?
Since the Hostslayer website remains down, I do not know whether the HostSlayer account will continue after today. It might auto-renew and automatically charge me like it did last year, or it might not. Since I have a backup server with RackNerd, I will backup everything there and switch the DNS for chessvariants.com to point to the same place as chessvariants.org. It may take a while before this fully propagates.
I have been trying to get email to work there without success. I can send and receive internal email, but I have been having lots of trouble with external email. Once we start using the new server, I may need to fix some things.
Fergus, you might want to update your hyperlinks, especially the link to the GC preset page for this game. Right now, it is not working because the page was moved.
After all the ups and downs over 3+ years and a much needed break, I can finally say with certainty that Suzumu Shogi is done, except for maybe the rules for prevemting Fire Demon trading. The main changes are as follows:
- The initial setup is different compared to the version you played (you can delete that game if you want).
- The Heavenly Tetrarch now has the Fire Demon's burning ability in addition to its original move.
- The Fire Demon and Heavenly Tetrarch cannot be burned.
The GC preset is up to date. I am planning on removing the old GC piece sets and set groups and uploading new ones once I manage to make contact with Greg Strong and Ben Reiniger.
Added Westernized board and pieces for Xiangqi to the Wikipedia article.
I'm interested in this game. I never got very familiar with the previous version so I'm wondering, what exactly is different here, and why? Also, is the game courier preset up-to-date?
So...yeah. This game has had its ups and downs - so much so that I decided to take a break and invent some billiards variants (my favorite of these is Snookerpool). I think the headaches were due to wanting to make the game layout identical to Tenjiku Shogi's. Now that I have gotten over that. I've decided to revive this game with a slightly different setup compared to Tenjiku, and go from there.
The premise for tri dimensional chess set's presence on federation star ships was to teach three dimensional combat tactics, which is something the Bartmess and Meder rules patently fail to do, by blocking circumventing moves.
The rules presented here, on chess variants, are not complete and lack rules for castling but also advocate inverted attack boards, which, if nothing else, are highly impractical.
Not only were the World Tri Dimensional Chess Federation rules written by a fighter pilot, to teach three dimensional aerial combat, which is more in keeping with the original theme, they also start the king and queen in the centre files and provide the most reasonable method for castling, as the attached images demonstrate.
King's side castling
Queen's side castling
It is a little detail, but I recently observed that the initials of this 19th German author, Albers, is not H.G. but H.C. It is H.C. Albers. The mistake comes from the title page of his book, Unterricht im Schachspiele which is written (as well as the full book) with Gothic script. There is no doubt, the C of H.C. is the same than the C. of Courierspiele.
I don't know who was the first to make that mistake, then it crawled in many places including my own books. Fortunately we can also find some sources which are correct now, like Georgi Markov's papers.
Indeed, M for caMel. Another mnemotechnic is M with 2 humps like the camel.
I never saw an answer for this question: what OS exactly is the CVP server running on? If I would know that I could try to migrate the piece-image server to this website, in order to repair the scalable diagram editor.
M because of caMel, like we have N because of kNight. In his upcoming book Jean-Louis indeed uses M and G for Camel and Eagle, in all his variants.
In variants as large as Terachess or Chu Shogi having 1-letter piece ID becomes a real challenge. For Tenjiku Shogi it becomes impossible. WinBoard uses 'dressed letters', like P' or P". Unlike 2-letter IDs this can also be used in FEN.
I hate everything about the Abstract set. It is by far the ugliest piece set I have ever seen. The coloring scheme is obnoxious. But there is no accounting for taste, of course. It is an interesting discussion wheter it is desirable to use piece images that fully imply how the piece moves. In Chess that is far more difficult than in Shogi (which has virtually no oblique leaps).
@Greg: what do you see as a disadvantage for using Interactive Diagrams as the main diagram? I never saw the point in having two diagrams of the same position on the same page. It just seems to waste space.
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Look on the 'What's New' Page, for 'Comments or Ratings'. A negative number of seconds is still showing for the latest comment (mine actually), in blue.
P.S. Also, I'm getting a blank page now when I click on 'Games Finished' on the What's New Page (also for 'Your Games on Game Courier', Open Invitations, and Game Courier move [made]).