Comments by Kevin Pacey
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@ H.G.:
Yes, I originally would have thought when an Advancer made a move that threatened a King, an enforcing preset would automatically announce check.
However, maybe the Advancer, being an Ultima-like piece, does not actually make a check in an Ultima-like game (which Butterfly Chess is not)? So I now ask, is that the usual assumption that Applet generated preset code makes for every CV put through the generating process? If so, maybe an option can be added to the Applet to ask if Ultima-like pieces should announce check.
A problem for Butterfly Chess, anyway, is that if check is not announced for Advancers, what happens if the opponent's next move leaves his king vulnerable to capture by the Advancer. Does the preset announce the opponent made an illegal move (my much preferred choice, implicit in Butterfly Chess rules), or can the king be captured (if so, is a win announced, or does a player type in 'won' after his K-capturing Advancer move is manually entered, or does he tell his opponent to make a legal move instead)?
@ H.G. Muller:
Have you seen my comment to you that I am replying to? Not too much of a rush, if you're busy or stumped.
Bureau-Spiel. Members-Only Chess on a 24x8 board with an assortment of pieces, many powerful. (24x8, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Warmachinewazir-Spiel. Members-Only Alternative version of Courier-Spiel, using Warmachinewazirs. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Warmachinewazir Chess. Members-Only Chess on a 10x8 board with Warmachinewazirs added. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Constabulary Chess. Members-Only Chess on an 8x10 board with compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@ H.G.:
In the following link to a Butterfly Chess log, I tried to move my White Advancer from e1 to j6. The (Applet generated) preset allows the move, but does not announce check. Is there a bug here?
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I still have no idea whether all 10 of my submissions awaiting review stink, or whether I'm super-buried in the queue, or...?
Is there a way editor(s) can let me know my 10 submissions to be reviewed have not been forgotten? I put out a comment for each of the 10 about two months ago that each was ready for review.
Wide Chess. Members-Only Chess with extra width. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
For an eighth weapon, have you considered a blowgun?
Note: the membership for fairly new LinkedIn public group 'Croatian chess' (chess variant-oriented) has doubled to 14 members since my last post here in mid-Feb; there are now over a dozen group posts. One is a link to CVP site, by myself.
I've been messaging LinkedIn members (some who I know) about the group's existence to help promote it, unknown to the group's owner (a CV-oriented company's CEO, who allows for the general discussion of CVs within the group, by members who post).
There is also a private Chinese Chess group on LinkedIn that is currently larger, and a private Alice Chess group that currently has just two members. Private groups' posts are only visible to their own members.
P.S.: There is also a company Page for a CV company, 5Head Chess, on LinkedIn, besides one for Chess Boxing Global (if that is seen as a legit CV).
@ Fergus (and others):
There was a death in my family this evening, so I may be a bit slow moving in our games or responding to any requests by editorial staff re: my pending submissions from March, at least for a while. I am not too upset at the moment, but my sister-in-law and others may need assistance.
Regards, Kevin Pacey
Centaur. Moves as Knight or Man. Also known as Centaur.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hi J-L
I may have been too critical, based on seeing the picture, like an earlier post of yours alluded to. If you're holding it up close and it looks fine to you, by all means stick with it.
K
@ Jean-Louis
If I looked at the right pictures in one of your earlier links (title of it including 'recent', I think), I didn't like the second Centaur option pictured because I thought it reminded me rather more of a bishop, at least without looking too carefully.
Perhaps that can be 'solved' if it's possible to include a lot more of the base of a knight, maybe even up to horse neck level, including much thicker 'carved lines' at the spine (maybe certain Staunton sets are that way?), and having the bend of the figurine somehow eliminated could be good.
I'm not sure a reverse centaur isn't considered a type of centaur by at least some people, but yes, it isn't the archetype. Still, the guard symbol on top of the knight figurine is what was decided on for Alfaerie 2D figurines, at least, as Daniel is alluding to.
Calling a Centaur piece type a Judge was something I did when somehow I thought I saw no entry for NWF in wikipedia the first time I looked at a fairy pieces wiki (maybe edited since, or I missed it), before I applied to and looked at CVP site. A 3D figurine for a judge-person may be easier to imagine and create, who knows. On the bright side, there are nothing but real people (or rook) represented among Sac Chess pieces, i.e. nothing mythical used for CV warfare in my CV's case.
Either that, or use a spikey style hairdo on the knight, like a punk-look. :)
Life, the Universe and Everything. 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]He more or less said so, though he said he wanted to pick a 'smallish number' as he was having his whim:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-number-42/
Note that Adams had his only child at age 42, and Bobby Fischer died at age 64. Carl Jung said to pay attention to coincidences. Question is, what do they mean?
Maybe the age he wanted to have a child was his (inside) joke. It seems his wife and the Lord may have gone along with it quite happily - the latter is thought to have a good sense of humour.
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