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ANNOUNCING THE 2006 WORLD CHESS VARIANT CHAMPIONSHIPS SPONSORED BY TAURUS GAMES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS WILL BE PLAYED IN THE FOLLOWING GAMES 4-WAY CHESS MODERATE PROGRESSIVE CHESS DELUXE CHESS You may play in any one game or as many as you want. The winner of each section will receive a chess crown, photo will be supplied soon. Any person who plays in at least one section may add one game to the list. Players always have the option to only play in the sections they want to play in. The first player to win 10 games in round robin format win's the championship for that game.
I have now replaced links to the Waiting Room, this page here, with links to the Logs page with the status filter set to open invitations. The Logs page provides a more versatile way to view invitations, displays them more compactly, and defaults to listing them in reverse chronological order.
I also was having difficulty offering invitations.
Two different players are waiting for contendors in Avalanche Chess. I think the game can start, if one player accepts the invitation of the other one.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, May 27, 2005 02:45 PM UTC:Game Courier invitations still don't work. When issuing an invitation, I
get:
<p>Warning:
fopen(/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/opulent_chess/mageofmaple-cvgameroom-2005-146-654.php):
failed to open stream: Permission denied in
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/create_log.php on line 21
<p>Failed to write to the file
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/opulent_chess/mageofmaple-cvgameroom-2005-146-654.php.
<p>Also, I can no longer save changes to my presets, I get similar permission
errors. Sorry to be the bearar of bad news...
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, May 25, 2005 05:14 AM UTC:There seems to be a problem with invitations. When I issued an open invitation, I got errors about not being able to write. The What's New page then showed the newest game courier invitation 5 seconds ago, but the game logs page didn't list it, so I don't think it was actually created.
Yes, if two clicks would only fill up an edit field this would be already very good. On SchemingMind.com they use JavaScript, so that the move can be entered without connection to server. I think the same would be nice here. It 's fine not to have any check for valid moves or highlight the move. Text entry is certainly very flexible, but it takes more time, especially when playing on unusual boards (like circular) or with non-standard pieces.
That wouldn't be compatible with all browsers, and it could never be flexible enough for all variants, particularly variants with cards. The most I might do is allow clicking on spaces as an alternate method of filling in the moves field, but I'm reluctant to do that, because it may end up confusing users who would expect it to be more fully functional than it would be. For example, it would not be able to highlight squares or to identify legal moves ahead of time. Other online systems can do such things by custom-designing the interface for specific games. But Game Courier is designed for flexibility and generality, and so it requires a general and open-ended input format, and a text field is the most general and open-ended input format available. Anyway, point-and-click is not an essential feature, it is not so much more difficult to type your moves, and it does a player good to think about the actual coordinates he is moving his pieces from and to. So I don't expect to be adding anything like this anytime soon.
Would be nice to have possibilty to move by clicking with mouse on starting postion in diagramm and then on the destination position. This is how most of other game sites work.
David Paulowich never made a page for Unicorn Great Chess, but it is a different game than his Unicorn Chess.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:24 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★<p>I love this Game Courier. It really is fantastic!</p>
<p>A <i>very tiny</i> bug report though, and I don't know if this is actually a problem with the GC or not, but when viewing the list of games in progress, and you click on 'Unicorn Great Chess' you get the description of <a href='/historic.dir/indiangr1.html'>Turkish Great Chess</a> and not <a href='/large.dir/unicorn.html'>Unicorn Chess</a>. In fact, I'm not sure the 'Great' belongs at all.</p>
<p>Thanks again! I'm so glad that I can play these games online! Now I just need to get around to reading the Developer's Manual ...</p>
Rhengin, Your requests are too vague for me to know what you want, and your tone is too hostile for me to care. Learn to make polite, specific requests, or learn to go without what you want. I know nothing of this Chinese gambling game that is supposedly the same as Nuclear Chess, and I am highly skeptical of your claims that they are the same. Nuclear Chess is based on Western Chess, and it is not a gambling game. And if Chi Zode is so popular, why did I get zero hits when I typed it into Google?
Rhengin wrote on Wed, May 5, 2004 06:22 AM UTC:Poor ★Your navigation in poor! I want to log in and invite my friends to play a popular Chinese gambling game called 'Chi Zode'! The 'Chess Variant' game 'Nuclear Chess' is the same thing! Could you please fix this and have better navigation and less self-referential links? Thank you, Rhengin Xi Lao Tsangi
You can't change the time controls of an invitation. What you can do is delete one invitation and issue a new one with different time controls.
How do I change the time controls once an invitation has been set up? Thanks for help :)
'If you move within the bonus period of zero seconds, you will gain a bonus of 1 day.' Is this a bonus per move?. I think it is not. The period for being bennefited with the bonus is of zero seconds, i.e., if you don´t play immediately, you can´t gain any bonus. Please revise it
What did I do wrong with setting game time? Is 5 moves per week with a bonus time of 2 days per move in any way strenuous? Please enlighten a newbie, thanks.
To the people that want to play: Please define reasonable time controls. Some potential contendors may be discouraged to play if the time controls are too exigent ('Gwidon Naskrent': May you reconsider the rithm of play, bonus time, etc?)
ok, i figured it out. but it's hardly easy to find. this page could definitely use some additional links and explanation.
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