Ratings & Comments

I have done it but not sure it is a good idea because if you use "view as player B". It won’t be correctly oriented.

Well, that problem was kind of already baked in to begin with, unless you used a separate piece style like you do with the Shogi Motif pieces on the biscandine site. I don't think we need to worry about that unless you think it is absolutely necessary.

Fergus,

I am trying to access the CVP Editorial Staff email account, so I can keep tabs on the email side of things. You should receive a code at your email, which you can send to my email.

P.S. It seems a bit cumbersome to have to ask you to do this every time...I hope there is a stay signed in function or something similar.

It's important to maintain backwards compatibility, and anyone who doesn't like the name of Aanca is free to use a different name with an alias.

I have done it but not sure it is a good idea because if you use "view as player B". It won’t be correctly oriented.

The editor Fergus Duniho has revised this page.

The editor Fergus Duniho has revised this page.

I also updated the seireigi-sprites file one more time so that the promoted Kanjis are all facing the right way (you'll need to rename it to seireigi-shogi-sprites for it to have any effect on the biscandine site).

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/jocly/dist/browser/games/chessbase/res/shogi/seireigi-sprites.png

P. S. GIMP is awesome.

The author, Fergus Duniho, has updated this page.

The editor Fergus Duniho has revised this page.

Indeed, it is in fairychess file. So, this is really sticking. Why can't we be disciplined just a little. On this community we all once agreed that Betza once made a mistake, he overread, when calling Aanca the wrong piece. We had a long discussion on that. So why there is still aanca for the wrong piece in this file which is rather recent? And then, it is contageous. I know that not everyone likes history and languages as I do. But once a fact is known, why keeping ignoring it? Ignorance is always stronger than culture. This is really discouraging.

Here is my updated version of your spritesheet. (For best results, clear browser cache before downloading)

I also took the opportunity to clean up stray pixels in your other shogi spritesheets.

www.chessvariants.com/membergraphics/MSchuseireigi/jocly-shogi-sprites.zip?nocache=true

The editor Fergus Duniho has revised this page.

:)

I'll send you an updated pictogram spritesheet that you can use. Currently, the pictogram images still have the Kanji for the Kings since they are pulling from those locations.

I'm thinking that this is because there is not a lot of experience in games with jokers.

At least in my case that's very much the reason; in principle the dicussion is very interesting (especially since a game I've been thinking about would involve a closely‐related, if potentially even more powerful (though less apparently‐random) piece)

My impression is that jokers are a bit like Querquisites and Smess/Ivory‐Tower pieces, in that they depart substantially enough from normal Chess dynamics that they'd take a good bit of learning to handle. And in their particular case, the art of dealing with them is in part (principally?) the fact that they reduce the value of strong pieces, especially if well placed: you can't freely move the queen if there's a joker ready to copy its move while still being worth (on average, presumed — though of course this ‘chilling’ effect increases its value correspondingly to the powerful pieces on the board) less.

I'd be interested to see how Jokers handle in games with (a small number of) really powerful pieces. I'd almost predict that capturing the jokers to free the power pieces (with maybe some judicious moves by the latter in between either while the J is still hidden in the setup position, or to give check) would be an important middle‐game theme.

But in any case for now you're probably one of the people here with most experience with the J :‌)

It not clear to me, when there's an apostrophe, it's the general of jade that corresponds to the blacks, right?

In kanji sets, the player that moves first always has the King with the extra stroke. And it is true that the player who moves first is called Black (or Sente) in Shogi. It's just that in Jocly and the Mnemonic sets by H. G. Muller, the player that moves first has the white piece images by convention to make it easier for chess players.