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A. M. DeWitt wrote on Tue, Nov 14, 2023 06:58 PM UTC:

- - - - - - - - - - CRITICAL BUG NOTICE - - - - - - - - - -

Game Courier is having serious server-side issues when loading presets with fairychess.txt-like code.

When I went to move in my Dai Seireigi game with Bob Greenwade, It gave the following error, despite the fact that I haven't changed anything in the code (which was working properly before).

The piece p is undefined.

Since this is not a preview, something may have gone wrong with the code. For diagnostic purposes, the last move played was

1. p 8k-8j

For general reference, here is the complete list of moves:

// Test of new rule-enforcing Dai Seireigi preset
1. p 8k-8j 
1... P 8e-8f 
2. i 9l-9j 
2... I 7d-7f 
3. p 13k-13j

Furthermore, some presets that use fairychess.txt or fairyshogi,txt are struggling to even show up on-screen, despite the fact that they were not changed in any way before the bug occured. For example: