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I have added two new editors, Zied Haddad and Ola Sassersson. I have also removed two editors, Jeremy Gabriel Good and Tony Quintanilla, because neither one has logged on in years. Despite accepting my request to be editors when I took over this site, neither one has logged on since before I took over in late 2015. So, I don't think either one is interested in continuing to be an editor. Those who are already editors should have the passwords for the database, SSH, SCP, and SFTP. The new editors have not been given these yet, because they are still new, but they have gained editor privileges while signed into the website.

Welcome, Zied and Ola!

Why, thank you.

Welcome to our two new editors. It's great to see some new blood. 

Next step : see some new blood in terms of contributors, not just editors, too. I'll try to find time to design a new variant or two myself, if I can get some letup from my 70-hours a week job, but I'd also love to see a lot more game designers get on board.

Hello, i tried to add my variant and it has not been approved yet. Can one of your admins check on this for me? Thank you

https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/castle-chess-by-starcaptaindread

Is this website no longer being updated? I see that Andrew Kuess' variant page linked in the previous comment is still "currently hidden pending approval by the Chess Variant Pages editorial staff."

If there's still an admin actively approving new variants, let me know and I'll add the best variants I've invented to this site.

Is this website no longer being updated?

Yes it is! The best places to see what's going on (IMO, and omitting Game Courier) are the What's New page and the listing of all comments

You can also see the listing of submitted-but-unpublished pages here; viewing the pages listed there requires being logged in.

I see that Andrew Kuess' variant page linked in the previous comment is still "currently hidden pending approval by the Chess Variant Pages editorial staff."

Hm, yes, we should've at least commented on that one. I saw it and passed on review at the time, and promptly forgot all about it. I'll go and make some comments now. On that note,

If there's still an admin actively approving new variants, let me know and I'll add the best variants I've invented to this site.

We have three editors currently active in approving submissions (two recent ones were brought on, see a few posts earlier in this thread, but I haven't seen much of them), but it's all volunteered time, so sometimes we get bogged down. Please do submit your game(s)! I'd suggest starting with just one, so that if we have generic feedback on it that would apply to your other submissions, you can incorporate it while writing.

I added H. G. Muller as an editor and made a note about our inactive editors.

I added H. G. Muller as an editor and made a note about our inactive editors.

Dear H.G. Muller, can you be congratulated for joining the editorial circle? You have my congratulations.

May I ask if you want to continue to be rated as 'private' in an email contact? You are the only editor who has listed his email address as 'private' ( This member's email address is private).

It is certainly important for some users to be able to contact you directly. What do you mean?

I see little reason for users to discuss privately with a specific editor. If there is an issue it would be better if all editors are aware of it, and can give their opinion. I read here just as often as I read my e-mail.

Is there a place where editors report their acivities, so that the other current and future editors knows what is being done?

I have strated moving Interactive Diagrams from comments into the article's page as main diagram. The first six of the list of playable Diagrams are already done. In this process I sometimes need to upload dedicated graphics for the page (for the static image in <noscript> tags). Not all pages seem to have a directory for that, probably because some did not have any graphics at all. In this case I create a directory for those in the /membergraphics/ directory, with a name starting with MS or ML (the latter for link files), plus the name of the variant (spaces squaeezed out).

I also made a few new alfaerie SVG pieces (thief, general, airplane, quickpawn), and added those to the alfaerieSVG page. I rendered those as 50x50 and 35x35 to put them on the respective alfaeriePNG pages, where I also added knightgeneral and camelrook renderings (which already existed as SVG, but not as PNG).

Is there a place where editors report their acivities, so that the other current and future editors knows what is being done?

I usually report my activities on relevant pages. There is no centralized place for this. If you want to, you could post what you're doing to your profile, since posting comments to profiles is now doable.

How do I request/add myself information to be added to https://www.chessvariants.com/problems.dir/bosmasol.html ?

I've uploaded the relevant Probleemblad issues, of Bosma's announcement and the tourney, to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bosma-chess

I believe it would be informational to input that link.

The numerous Bosma Problems, as well as general triple check problems, can also be found here: https://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp?expression=k%3D%27bosma%27

Let me pass this on to H.G., since he is from the Netherlands and knows Dutch.

Well, that helps me to understand the Dutch. But what am I supposed to do with this? Should I add it as an off-site link in a link section on the CVP page. And also a ling to Die Schwalbe? Or should the Dutch text be uploaded to the CVP site, to avoid off-site linking? Would this violate any copyrights? (I suppose not, as the text at the bottom says 'Please reprint'.)

Linking to Die Schwalbe would help, thanks. It might be possible to copy the basic information and the problems, if neither offsite linking nor reuploading is comfortable for you.