Comments by ChessShogi

Thanks. I also saw that the fairyshogi Dragon_Horse-Desc function/variable was missing.

To be honest, I didn't expect to see Hectochess featured this soon, but it is nice to see my efforts recognized, at least in a small way, so thank you. When I made my case for the game, I thought of it as less of a nomination and more of a a comment pointing out that Hectochess met the requirements (sans being seconded) for being featured. I expected it to be swept under the rug.

That being said, it seems that the featured variants system is garnering some serious debate among the more senior members. Especially Jean-Louis Cazaux is frustrated by this process of featuring variants. Perhaps during the holiday months we could step back and make some improvements to this system rather than feature a variant through the current system.

No voting system is flawless, but given what some are saying about the voting system, improving the voting system for featured variants, even in a small way, would be a good idea.

That being said. I might make a case for Seireigi in the future, once it gets a few more years under its belt.

Chu Seireigi's GC preset page is ready.

It seems that Game Courier is having trouble displaying legal moves for pieces in certain situations. Take for example this game from Seireigi:

1. p 3g-3f 
1... P 7c-7d 
2. n 2i-3g 
2... N 8a-7c 
3. n 3g-2e 
3... N 7c-8e 
4. n 2e-1c; +n-dest 
4... N 8e-9g; +N-dest // If you click on Black's Heavenly Horse on 1c, it shows only legal mvoes to 1a, 3a, 2b, and 2d. GC should also show legal moves on 2e and 1b, but it doesn't. However, rule-enforcement-wise, there are no problems when the Heavenly Horse moves to the latter two squares.

If you ever get around to a rule-enforcing Game Courier preset for this, send me an invite.

I just finished making a rule-enforcing preset for Chu Seireigi, which is pretty similar.

It might be a little while before I finish a Dai Seireigi preset due to needing to program the hook movers (Hook Mover, Capricorn, Square Mover, and Great Dragon) and promotable stinging pieces (Poisonous Snake and Cat Sword) and their corresponding rule enforcement.

Edit: I figured out how to code the hook-moving pieces with logride. The rest is actually rather simple.

However, in the meantime, I'll send you an invite for Chu Seireigi. Look for it in your GC logs (<User> -> Your Games on Game Courier)

You'll probably take me down within 15 moves (actually, 10 wouldn't surprise me), but I really like the looks of this game.

Your probably right that I will win, but it'll take a lot more than 15 moves. The range-jumpers only jump once, and the hook movers cannot jump at all. Furthermore, there's plenty of chances for mistakes to be made, allowing you at least a small chance of victory. This is also the case for Chu Seireigi, which doesn't have range-jumpers or hook movers at all.

Thanks for fixing that.

logrude seems to not be repeating the last direction indefinitely. In fact, it has some really weird behavior going on right now.

I second Metamachy. It is a solid game with some interesting and rather unique twists on the normal Chess rules.

I also second Tenjiku Shogi. This game is a perfect example of the craziness that particularly imaginative authors can come up with, while still being fun to play.

It seems you forgot to copy the new Griffon logic over to the Griffon-Range function.

The Griffon-Range function currently looks like this:

def Griffon-Range lograys #0 (nw n) (nw w) (ne n) (ne e) (sw s) (sw w) (se s) (se e);

The Griffon-Range function should look like this:

def Griffon-Range lograys #0 (nw (n)) (nw (w)) (ne (n)) (ne (e)) (sw (s)) (sw (w)) (se (s)) (se (e));

- - - - - - - - - - CRITICAL BUG NOTICE - - - - - - - - - -

Game Courier is having serious server-side issues when loading presets with fairychess.txt-like code.

When I went to move in my Dai Seireigi game with Bob Greenwade, It gave the following error, despite the fact that I haven't changed anything in the code (which was working properly before).

The piece p is undefined.

Since this is not a preview, something may have gone wrong with the code. For diagnostic purposes, the last move played was

1. p 8k-8j

For general reference, here is the complete list of moves:

// Test of new rule-enforcing Dai Seireigi preset
1. p 8k-8j 
1... P 8e-8f 
2. i 9l-9j 
2... I 7d-7f 
3. p 13k-13j

Furthermore, some presets that use fairychess.txt or fairyshogi,txt are struggling to even show up on-screen, despite the fact that they were not changed in any way before the bug occured. For example:

• Chess
• Shogi
• Seireigi

That's because I used Google Translate to look up hexadecimal in Japanese and went with the pronunciation that it gave me.

I edited the Japanese name to make the pronunciation match up (it conveniently also gives a somewhat accurate description when compared to Tenjiku Shogi). However, truth be told, most non-Japanese people probably won't care what the Japanese name is, as long as it is consistent.

Dai Seireigi's GC Preset is ready.

I have finalized Chu Seireigi and Dai Seireigi, as well as their GC preset pages.

Games with a rank label of 0 don't display correctly, as can be seen in Apothecary Chess Modern. It looks right if the rank label 0 is replaced with something else

Another game with this problem is Rococo

Now that Daniel brought this problem up, I should also note that presets with a Max Columns value of 0 don't display, only showing the following text.

When cols is zero, you don't have a board. Exiting before it tries to divide by zero.

An example is my old Hook Shogi preset and other old presets, for which I did because I was younger and less experienced.

Thankfully, this is very easy to fix. Throw in a clause in the script that forces the Max Columns value to be 1 if the field is evaluated to be 0.

Pseudocode, assumes val("Max Columns") has been pre-validated to let only integers through.

if (val("Max Columns") == 0) { cols = 1; } // Set Max Columns to 1 to prevent dividing by 0 or a negative number

else cols = Math.abs(val("Max Columns")); // Valid value (take absolute value to ensure proper division)

I am getting a weird warning/error from my Personal Page comments section when editing my own comment on it...

The ItemID @ChessShogi no longer matches any item in the Item table.

This Jocly file apparently does not recognize a win from a King capture, even though no rule exists against moving into check.

I have added Bob Greenwade's Seireigi piece images to the options for available graphics for the Interactive Diagrams.

Edit: I am also doing this for the other games in the Seireigi family.

Oops.

Edit: This is now fixed.