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Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 04:53 PM UTC:

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]).


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 04:19 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 12:44 AM:

Plus, DZ's comment appeared after a negative amount of seconds.

How did you determine that? What should I be looking for?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 04:18 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 12:40 AM:

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.


Gus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 03:06 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:25 AM:

The OS is Rocky Linux 8.6.


Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 06:11 AM UTC:

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?


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 05:25 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sat Oct 1 04:26 PM:

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.


Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 12:44 AM UTC:

Plus, DZ's comment appeared after a negative amount of seconds.


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 12:40 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sat Oct 1 04:26 PM:

I can't create new game invitations. The full invitation page isn't showing up, only the top part with the game board.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2022 04:26 PM UTC:

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.


fergus wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2022 04:24 PM UTC:

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.


Switching servers[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2022 04:22 PM UTC:

Testing


Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2022 02:40 AM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from Fri Sep 30 04:07 PM:

Is it just subject threads or also comments I can't post?


Switching servers[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2022 02:57 AM UTC:

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.


Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2022 04:07 PM UTC:

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.


Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2022 03:47 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Thu Sep 29 11:31 PM:

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.


A Western Xiangqi Board. Proposal to play Xiangqi on a `westernized' board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Yevgeniy Sova wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2022 12:27 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Added Westernized board and pieces for Xiangqi to the Wikipedia article.


Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2022 11:31 PM UTC:

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?


💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2022 03:52 PM UTC:

Suzumu Shogi is ready


MSsuzumu-shogi[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Wed, Sep 28, 2022 02:45 AM UTC:

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.


Tridimensional Chess (Star Trek). Three-dimensional chess from Star Trek. (7x(), Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jim Tinsmith wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2022 02:23 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

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
Tri dimensional chess kings side castling
Tri dimensional chess king's side castling
Queen's side castling
Tri dimensional chess queen's side castling
Tri dimensional chess queen's side castling


Courier-Spiel. 19th century variant of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 07:48 PM UTC:

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.


Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 07:26 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:30 PM:

Indeed, M for caMel. Another mnemotechnic is M with 2 humps like the camel.


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 06:34 PM UTC in reply to Máté Csarmasz from Fri May 13 08:21 PM:

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.


Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 06:30 PM UTC:

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.


Setup graphics, piece sets[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Sep 26, 2022 06:21 PM UTC:

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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