Comments by CBagleyJones

looks terrific, interesting pieces, i like the way you have the 'grand
chess' set up, and great to see 10 pieces only in total on a 10x10
board.
some people go crazy with the amount of pieces they use :))
lol

hi everyone, if anyone wants to submit any graphics for this expansion set,
please send to me but don't be too long, David plans to update this next
week.
Joe, the rest of your 'grey' graphics will all be up next update.

i update you :)
he he, ok i updated this game, well i gave it it's 2nd variant, i
replaced the knight with the 'butterfly elephant' to make a 'pure'
shatranj elephants game (it's what the elephants wanted)

i think 7 mirrors is pretty good, as you say, it can be tricky/complicated
to see everything going on, but of course a larger variant with more
mirrors would be great. Still, i feel 7 mirrors most likely best.
Just concerned about how complicated and difficult more mirrors would make
the game. Congratulations Gary, great game, as usual :)

people resign games, most games are won that way.
someone will see that they are going to get checkmated in a few moves, so
they resign, or if they are positionally or materially lost they will
resign.

yes this is a great game, David and i had a game on game courier, it is
nice playing with the general (dragonhorse) and cannon, combined with rook
knight and elephant/fers (which i like to call 'ferfil').
Opening pawn set up is very interesting too. All these things makes for
open and exciting play. Cool game. (David, i was trying to email you, but
there is a prob)

i have updated this with a new zrf called 'MirChess32', it is David
Paulowich's Mir Chess. David has also made a game called 'Flying Mir
Chess' for this zrf, check them out they play very nice.
i have also made a couple of games based on these games.

i tried to update this in the 'what's new' but got this message ..

Error performing query: Duplicate entry 'MZflyingarmies2' for key 1

(i just wanted to say 'added 'mirchess32' zrf)

maybe you can't update a game that is already just updated :)

added 'Bases3 -sliders sang' variant to 9x9 board*, and the last 2
variants on the 8x8, all 'slider' variants. 
i think it is pretty funny playing with the sang (Korean elephant) and
camelslider on the 9x9 and 10x10, these long sliders, in a game with
drops.
* pretty sure that was it

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Well i think this looks great, it has my fav pieces. With promotion zone
last 3 ranks and game played with drops, play should be fast paced. It has
a nice shatranj feel to it.
Even though i most likely prefer promoted pieces reverting back to pawns,
i think it is interesting and fun the way it plays in this game. For sure,
when promoting, you would have to consider things differently.
Gary, i was going to say, defence will be important, because pro zone is 3
ranks, pawn drops will be deadly, and wazir and fers could often be hard
pressed to defend, and just before i looked at your game going at the
moment on game courier :)

wow, this looks very interesting, i wish i knew what it all meant though, 
what does 'activating' a piece mean, is it a move to activate, do you
see movement when you activate, i activate you, did you or i move?
If a chief activates a piece, can another chief then activate that same
piece, and then does that piece go really fast? :)
i will have to watch the game being played on game courier, there is a
game yes? (edit- yes your playing Gary, i just looked)