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@ Fergus

On my Settings Files page, my enforced version of my 'Officer Chess' (enforced preset made by my modifying 'Very Heavy Chess' rules enforcing preset by Greg Strong, made for Jean-Louis) is currently showing as 'enforced [0]' instead of 'enforced [5]'.

Maybe it's not important, but I'm wondering why that would be. The 'enforced' version of Officer Chess seems to work so far, based on my tests in 'Move Mode' for the preset, at least.

@Fergus: I cannot edit any of the Game Courier Setting File I have written. I get no error message. The page I get is blank. Could you please check what's wrong? Thank you

I cannot access the Edit script for the Taishin Shogi preset to fix a problem that has popped up.The error that shows is the following:

Syntax Error on line 1157

The case includes whitespace in it. Are you missing a colon after the case label?

There is a double space in between +fy and rd on that line. It should be a single space, but I cannot access the preset editor to fix the error. Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: The same error pops up in the Hook Shogi preset, albeit on a different line.

I would like to have the abstract preset for Dragon Chess deleted.

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

Okay, those are deleted.

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.

Okay, I deleted them and the database entries for them too.

The Game Courier presets named Dai Shosu Shogi are still there. They can be deleted as they are basically clones of the Futashikana Shogi presets.

Thanks,Fergus!

This is now fixed. In one line of the rays operator, I was using !empty() instead of isset(), and that's what introduced the bug that affected the operation of rays from some spaces.

Thanks for reporting this. Although I'm doing most of the development over on the other server, I do copy over changes toward the end of the day after they seem to be working, and then it's Europeans who are the first to encounter any bugs I may have introduced into the code, because they start the day earlier than I do.

The bug here is preventing the Rook's legal moves from being displayed, but it does not seem to be preventing you from manually typing in the move and making it. I will now look into this and try to fix it.

In this game I cannot move my rooks : https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Chinese+Chess&log=catugo-cvgameroom-2021-269-200&userid=catugo

After thinking about it, I decided to cancel the renaming of Futashikana Shogi. Please delete both presets for Dai Shosu Shogi.

It looks like someone has taken care of this.

After thinking about it, I decided to cancel the renaming of Futashikana Shogi. Please delete both presets for Dai Shosu Shogi.

I decided to rename Futashikana Shogi to Dai Shosu Shogi.

While it has apparently been done, or is in the process of being done, I would like to advise against renaming in general. When you release a game, it takes on a life of its own that may extend outside of this site. While I was working on the taginfo.php script today, I was testing it with the Ai Ai tag, and one line on the page was displaying as empty. When I tracked down what was causing this, it was the ItemID for Futashikana Shogi. Apparently, someone has programmed Futashikana Shogi for Ai Ai, where it remains known by that name and not by the name Dai Shosu Shogi.

Additionally, the name has been changed without updating the RelocatedPages table. This table should have a row added to it for each page whose URL and ItemID both change. It may be done by editing the table in PHPMyAdmin, which the main editors have the URL, userid and password for.

When the page gets rewritten, it should mention the original name and why the name was changed.

I'm open to feedback on how best to manage this sort of thing. One possibility is to create a new Item with the new name, we can move over the references in the database I've mentioned, and leave the old page with just a link forwarding to the new page (possibly even an automatic redirect, though I'm not sure if that'd work in a member submission view script).

The database has a RelocatedPages table. Just add an entry that includes its old URL and its new ItemID, and the 404 script will take care of the details.

I finished the new pages. All I need to do now is move the files in the old Rules page over to the new one and update the image links for the pages that use them.

@Adam, we normally don't like to rename Items that have been around for a while (your rules page being from 2019); while we can automatically update comments, favorites, index entries, tags, and possibly groups (am I missing anything?), anybody else who has linked to your page would find their link broken.

I'm open to feedback on how best to manage this sort of thing. One possibility is to create a new Item with the new name, we can move over the references in the database I've mentioned, and leave the old page with just a link forwarding to the new page (possibly even an automatic redirect, though I'm not sure if that'd work in a member submission view script).

I decided to rename Futashikana Shogi to Dai Shosu Shogi. I would like the game's corresponding pages, https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/futashikana-shogi and https://www.chessvariants.com/play/futashikana-shogi changed to https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/dai-shosu-shogi and https://www.chessvariants.com/play/dai-shosu-shogi, respectively. I would also like to have the Game Courier presets for Futashikana shogi deleted. I have already transferred their code to presets for Dai Shosu Shogi.

Thank you Fergus

Nothing has been set up to let you delete settings files. So, I did it for you.

It was this:

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2020-12-30 CET I would like to delete Zanzibar-S-prov as well

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2020-12-30 CET How to delete a Game Courier Setting file on our own page? I would like to delete "Zanzibar-S1" that I've made and I don't know how. Thanks

Same question that I re-asked few days ago.

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2021-05-23 CEST I would like to delete several entries on my page of Game Courier Setting File:

Zanzibar-S1

Zanzibar-S-prov

Jetan-of-Barsoom

Chess

How can I do that? Thank you

If I'm doing something wrong, please tell me. Thank you.

No answer to my question, that I had already asked 5 months ago.

It looks like the only comment you left on this page 5 months ago was not a question. What question went unanswered?

No answer to my question, that I had already asked 5 months ago. There is no possibility? Too bad, I just wanted to clean that page. Thanks.

I would like to delete several entries on my page of Game Courier Setting File:

Zanzibar-S1

Zanzibar-S-prov

Jetan-of-Barsoom

Chess

How can I do that? Thank you

I've detected a small error in the preset of Terachess II that I wrote. I corrected it but when I save, it fails: Failed to write to the file /home/chessvariants/public_html/play/pbmsettings/terachess_ii/Default-Alternate.php. Could you help me?

I suppose that if the original author has lost interest, there is nothing that forbid you to re-invent them, maybe altering them to your taste.

Adam DeWitt wrote on 2020-11-02 GMT I would like the presets listed below deleted. All of them are mine, so you >do not need someone else's permission to delete them.

The default preset for Hanten Shogi

The default preset for Gyaku-sama Shogi

In case you are wondering why I want them deleted, I have decided to delete >their related articles from the Chess Variant Pages, as I have lost interest >in them.

It's quite unfortunate that you deleted those articles. Just because you lost interest, doesn't mean everyone else has as well. I was intrigued when I found those variants, because very few large variants have Micro-Shogi-style promotion/demotion on capture, and I was planning to spend some time with them at some point.

I would like to delete Zanzibar-S-prov as well

How to delete a Game Courier Setting file on our own page? I would like to delete "Zanzibar-S1" that I've made and I don't know how. Thanks

I would like the presets listed below deleted.

Okay, they're deleted.

I would like the presets listed below deleted. All of them are mine, so you do not need someone else's permission to delete them.

The default preset for Hanten Shogi

The default preset for Gyaku-sama Shogi

In case you are wondering why I want them deleted, I have decided to delete their related articles from the Chess Variant Pages, as I have lost interest in them.

I deleted most of them, because there were no games using them. But some were used for existing games, and deleting them would break those games. So, I didn't delete them.

• My alfaerie preset for Hectochess

This one has one or more games played with it.

The alfaerie, blackabstract, blackalfaerie, whiteabstract, and whitealfaerie presets for Yangsi

The three abstract settings files were used for games. I deleted the three alfaerie ones.

I wonder if there is a way to delete old presets? If so, I would like the presets listed below deleted (TLDR - All of the presets listed here that redirect to something). All of them are mine, so you do not need someone else's permission to delete them.

• All of my presets for Chess on a 10x10 Board
• All of my presets for Decimal Chess
• My alfaerie preset for Dragon Chess
• My preset for Futaskikana Shogi
• My alfaerie preset for Hectochess
• My alfaerie preset for Ryugi
• My preset for Single-Capture Suzumu Shogi
• My promotest preset for Suzumu Shogi
• The alfaerie, blackabstract, blackalfaerie, whiteabstract, and whitealfaerie presets for Yangsi
• All of my presets for Yangsi (Black)
• All of my presets for Yangsi (White)

Thank you, Fergus. I've edited 3D Chess War:default and it is now showing up on my personal GC Settings Files page, besides the public GC Settings Files page.

I changed the condition with isset($author) to !empty($author), which should now allow you to write to a pre-existing settings file whose author has been set to the empty string. Since the login() function can still return a true value when an empty string is passed to it as the userid, I added some lines of code to set $userid to the value of this function if it was previously empty. That should prevent anyone from saving a settings file with an empty $author string.

Maybe for some reason it mattered if I didn't bother to retype my ID ('panther') at the end of the editing session, before I hit 'Save'? (cannot recall if that's what I did that day)

3d_chess_war/default.php has its author recorded as the empty string. That isn't supposed to happen.

I've just successfully saved a settings file called 'Waffle Chess:default'. It's saved both under my own personal GC Settings Files page, and under the public GC Settings Files page. That's in spite of not ever being presented with a password field, if that's supposed to still happen within an editing session, as per the GC user documentation.

Most of the difficulties I've had must have been caused when I simply kept trying to save a settings file to called 3D Chess War:default, when unknown/unsure to me a file (of mine) of that name had already been saved under the public GC Settings Files page (that page only, for some reason, as I alluded to in my previous post). I kept being told I was not the author, and assumed it was because there was no password field ever presented for me to use. It seems that instead that I was being told this because a settings file of that name already existed, regardless of who was the author (unbeknowst to me). It thus seems it could have been helpful if GC could somehow have told me that such a settings file of that name already existed, at least (whether or not I was editing the original file of that name, perhaps).

Something's a bit strange, unless there's some work in progress by our webmaster... I can find my '3D Chess War: default' settings file listed on the (linked) public CVP php page 'Game Courier Settings Files', after having finally thought to try looking there out of some hope (yet 3D Chess War's not currently listed on my own personal Game Courier Settings Files page, and it as yet never was, afaik). I don't know how it got saved to that extent, even. Good to see it though.

Game Courier does not check contributor status.

I've discovered I cannot even edit my own settings files, if in an editing session I merely alter the name of the original preset without any further editing  (e.g. change, in an edit, 4*Chess to read 3D Chess War). I can edit just 4*Chess itself successfully if I don't change its name, however.

Note that I still am never provided a password field to enter my password, during an editing session. I'm wondering if it's something affecting just me that may depend on my current contributor status.

I've just tried to edit a number of presets that were not authored by me. Nowadays (at least) it seems I'm never provided with a field to enter my own password when attempting such an editing task, and that may explain why in each case when I attempted (again) to save something called '3D Chess War', I was told that I was not the author of the preset.

Has something been changed?

I see that other people have recently successfully produced editor-approved presets, but it's not apparent that the settings file for such was made recently.

I'm not acquainted with how to make a settings file from absolute scratch, if that's even possible.

I'm not sure if this works now. I thought I just successfully saved a (experimental/test) settings file called "3D Chess War", but it's not showing up as a settings file of mine.

Yup, fixed now.  Thanks!  Now I can find all my lost presets, containing all my questionable ideas ...

It was working before I added it to the database. After that, there was a conflict with a variable name set in the header. I have now fixed that by changing the name of the variable used by this script to $programmer.

Does this work?  I can't get anything to come up no matter what I enter.