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About Game Courier. Web-based system for playing many different variants by email or in real-time.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 03:53 PM UTC:
We have a draw in /play/pbm/play.php?game=Weak+Army%3AI&log=pallab-cvgameroom-2008-323-079. But it is still showing my move. How to correct it?

Game Courier User's Guide. How to play games with the CV Play-by-Mail system.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Tue, Dec 9, 2008 10:12 AM UTC:

It seems that I can not take back moves in my games.


Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 12:24 AM UTC:
Stockman,
This is not a right place to ask, but what is the link of your video?

Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 12:56 AM UTC:
How to use the self destruction of Swapper in game courier? I am playing a game and my opponent is unable to use this feature.

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pallab basu wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 03:24 AM UTC:
Sam,
Creating a new chess variants is 'trivial'. Yea it is as trivial as
writing a poetry. Anybody can write down some matching words in five minutes
but a good poetry is something non-trivial. Same goes here!

Weak Combo Chess and Strong Combo Chess. Combining either the weakest or strongest elements of FIDE Chess, Shogi, and Xiang Qi. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Sat, Dec 20, 2008 10:59 PM UTC:
'Not all of my games are jokes, you know.' 
Question is that whether this particular variant is a joke or not, it is not about your other variants.

Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 03:18 PM UTC:
One can not move into check although the rules states that the goal of the game is to capture the opponent king, not to checkmate it.

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pallab basu wrote on Sat, Dec 27, 2008 12:21 AM UTC:
Many thanks !

Wild Kingdom Chess. Missing description (8x11, Cells: 88) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 11:29 PM UTC:
Nicholas, it is good to see that you are already authoring interesting variants :)

Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 09:47 PM UTC:
CWDA is one of the best chess variant there is. The best point about it the main concept is simple yet deep and brilliant. It is certainly the most chess like variant. In Betza's language 'Heavy duty chess'. Another variant which may come close to this realization of 'brilliant yet simple idea', is the Kamikaze Shogi variant by Fergus.

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pallab basu wrote on Mon, Feb 27, 2012 03:55 PM UTC:
There was one Chess with different armies tournament 2001. As far as I know
none has been arranged after that. I was wondering if people are interested
in another one. Let me know and we can continue this discussion.

Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Feb 27, 2012 04:30 PM UTC:
H.G. Muller, 


Many many thanks for the end games table bases. I also thought it would be similar that in QKFFK game , Q wins. Please let us know more. 

Indeed a very interesting research.

pallab basu wrote on Mon, Feb 27, 2012 04:33 PM UTC:
What happens with a KRKW endgame, I guess it is a draw just like KRKN endgame.

Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Mar 5, 2012 11:10 PM UTC:
Anybody like to play this army? Although I do not really like the nightrider piece I can still play with it. Nightrider is always a problem and it is difficult to calculate with it :). Another queen variant which is short range is NBD or NAFD.

Ideal Values and Practical Values (part 6). A study of the value of the Furlrurlbakking piece.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Tue, Mar 6, 2012 02:42 PM UTC:
Nice to see you back. When you were not around I found this cite and become a fan of CWDA.

Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Wed, Mar 7, 2012 08:11 PM UTC:Average ★★★
Joe joyce,

Hope we will play this games sometimes.

best,
Pallab

Fairy Pieces Part 1. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Fri, Mar 9, 2012 02:57 PM UTC:
I use Linux and run ZOG very successfully through wine. It is almost 100% perfect with no glitches and problems.

Fairy-Max: an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Mar 9, 2015 09:03 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Is there a ready made setup for chess with different armies ? Thanks for answering,

ChessVA computer program
. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 06:34 PM UTC:

I am testing with a modified preset

/play/pbm/play.php?game%3DAssymetric+army%26settings%3DFIDE-Assym1

But whenever I tried to actually play a RR vs FF preset appears, not my modified army. I would appreciate any help.


pallab basu wrote on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 07:01 PM UTC:

I am wondering why that is so? I don't clearly see anything in the code that precludes mixed pieces.


Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
pallab basu wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2020 11:09 PM UTC:

Just like to point out.

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Chess+with+Different+Armies&log=pallab-cvgameroom-2006-64-786

In this game, I was white and I won the game. However the game courier shows that my opponenet won the game.


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