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Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2016 12:37 PM UTC:

Greg Strong wrote:

"...You can open one of the Chess presets, click Edit to modify it, and just erase all the code in the seven boxes at the bottom to stop it from enforcing any rules.  Then, in the first box, change the name from Chess to Asymmetric Chess, enter your user id and password, and click Save.  It will give you a link that you can then use to send out invitations to play..."

 

As an experiment I tried doing this procedure for making a preset with a simple chess variant of mine called "Throne Chess" instead (same rules as chess, except playing K to K8 is an extra victory condition, "Thronemate"). I had some success, but I saw nowhere that a little PBM green box icon symbol for a Throne Chess preset had been created, with myself credited as the author. There was created a default file for Throne Chess, stored under my user ID, in Game Courier's programmer's file log system. Throne Chess was not showing as having, say, 0 games played for it so far under "All Games" in the Game Courier Menu though. I edited the 'settings name' from default to be called Throne Chess, later, along with redirecting the default file version to it, too, but still no little PBM green box preset icon showing anywhere upon searching the website. I'm wondering if I have to do something rather complicated, or beyond me, instead of my doing what was recommended to Dmitry, to get a little PBM green box preset icon to come into existence (without having to play anyone a game online first).


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