Comments by ChessShogi

Interactive Diagram successfully inserted. However, Water Buffalos that promote to Fire Demon immediately burn surrounding enemies, which should not happen. Is there a way I can fix this without needing to modify the source code itself?

Alright then. I will revise this page and the GC preset to reflect this.

This is fixed now.

So I now use ^ for forced Shogi promotion instead (which did not have a meaning yet in the morph parameter).

Thanks. Both work perfectly.

You like the 'purple method' better? I did copy the code, but also left in the old code in an if-then-else construct. For now it always uses the purple method, but it would be easy to make this subject to a new parameter.

I think the 'purple method' is much more user-friendly, as you immediately see the availability for promotion on the board once the piece is eligible, rather than having a link show up at the top and then be confused as to why the piece won't move to the square  you clicked on.

I encountered another bug with the optional Shogi promotion morph parameter. This time, its a visual glitch where the prompt works correctly but the images are reversed, so that clicking one yields the opposite result. I prepared everything in advance this time. All you need to do is move one of the advanced Pawns and click on one of the choices.

I at first though this was a simple wires-crossed case, but since there is only one place where the prompt is defined in betzaNew, this is less open-and-shut than I thought.

It turned out that the order in which the various promotions were generated determined how clicks were mapped onto piece types, and this was different for promotions resulting from morph and from promoZone. Now it simply uses the type displayed in the square that was clicked.

Thanks.

I made some paper cutouts of Chu Shogi using the Mnemonic pieces and a checkered board for learnability purposes, complete with the rules.

The pieces are designed so that if you only use paper, folding them as instructed will make the pictures face the opponent, like real Shogi pieces.

The Fire Demon was always depicted with diagonal slides, which your graph lacks.

Also, it seems you missed the graph for the Free Eagle. The preset on CVP uses the same move described in this page.

The Fire Demon graph looks good. It doesn't match the move described on this page, but this is acceptable due to the lacunae in the historical documents.

For the Free Eagle graph, it seems you just copied the Lion Hawk's diagram and removed some Lion move arrows. To clarify, the Free Eagle's "diagonal moves of the Lion" means it can move as a Ferz (one square diagonally) up to twice per turn, but otherwise has all the Lion move options that this implies. Oh, and don't forget the orthogonal and diagonal slides, which are always present for the Free Eagle.

If you need an easy reference for this move you can click on the Free Eagle in the Interactive Diagram.

rule to document the set view of tenjiku in jocly

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The Free Eagle graph, at least for the move described on this page, which you use in your Rules document, should look like this:

4+A1gk2f1/6s2+P1l/1+H1n4r1e1/5N3mp1/5xpO4/11+L/9Q2/12/3+v8/12/12/12 w - 0 1

Thanks. Once I find the correct line to in order to reach get the mate in 8, I can compile this problem and delete the MD series (which is embarrassingly simplistic by B23's standards).

At that time the MSM was my only source for these problems, and it is a copyrighted source (which also contains the FENs).

I did make sure to cite my sources for the tsumeshogis (which you can find in the  "0 - Chu Shogi Tsumeshogi Sources" PDF File in the Applet's tsumeshogi folder.) However, since there is a legal precedent that a Chess position cannot be copyrighted, I did not bother asking for permission from anyone before compiling the tsumeshogis, since the ruling, which presumably extends to Chess variants, would effectively consider the positions to be in the public domain.

I also fixed certain problems that needed it.