Comments by wdtr2

I hope I am not being a pain/nag, but the moves by mouse click is not working again for me. Sunday 8/22 13:22 EDT. Thank you for correcting this issue in the past. :)

This should show up on any game. I am playing shako right now. (me vs. panther) when I noticed the following" Click a piece and legal moves show up. (Fantastic!) I then move the piece (via click) and the button "confirm" comes up. (also good). In the past, if I clicked on an opponent piece at this time, I could see the legal moves that he/she could do on his/her turn. This showing of opponent moves occurs before you hit the confirm button. They would appear as dark blue squares. This ability seems to have disappeared for me. It is a nice thing to have, but in reality it is not a mandatory thing. If it is not too much trouble, do you think you can add it back?

I often click the opponent piece to review what moves it can do. This is quite useful in chess with different armies, or the zebra, because the zebra moves are different from game to game.

In my current game (active) "Catapults of Troy". It seems to be my turn. I click the game and the board shows up showing my opponent's last move. There is a Gray button saying "userid to move". So far so good, normal behavior. I click that button. A new screen appears the banner on that page says "Make and Preview Your Move" It shows the board but it seems to be missing a whole section/div. There is no textbox or any buttons where I can enter moves. I am sort-of stuck in pre-to-middle move with no ability to make a move. My other games that have "show legal moves" are working fine. I think this game has no programming code in it, and might not be interacting with the php modules that lets you make moves properly.

I am hoping someone can test this. When I attempt to run/play Hex Shogi 91 and I hit the play button. (Two people playing on the same computer). It is the first move. I mouse click the black rook. The gray border comes up (good), I have 3 possible legal moves. They are 3 dark blue squares. I click a dark blue square, and the move does not work. I am using firefox ESR 78.4 Can other people make moves via mouseclick when playing two people on same computer? Note: You can enter the move via the manual/keyboard mode and that works.

When I click to go to the omega chess player. I see an error message like: SYNTAX ERROR IN USER INPUT: on turn 0: compose_move: w1 is not a valid coordinate. Go back and try again.

do you want me to delete the invitation?

On Omega Chess startup I am getting an error message.

SYNTAX ERROR IN USER INPUT: on turn 0:
compose_move: w1 is not a valid coordinate.
Go back and try again.

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game%3DOmega%20Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie

I think you can draw Allfarie pieces, with something like mspaint. Once drawn I think you need to work with the admins at this site to get the graphics installed into a particular web directory. Fergus has written a How-to on this. (I think). Your icons above look like Knight, Camel, Zebra, rook, bishop, ???, Gryphon. They are well done, but have a look/feel that is not as satisfying as an Allfarie piece. What got me interested in chess as a child was the pieces them selves, and the wood carvings. For your game, I love the introduction of the joker. It is a very interesting piece. If your game is showing legal moves I personally feel the arrow design is not needed. If you are making a commercial board game that is not a computer program, I admit your arrow piece set would be very useful.

This is just my opinion, and your piece set is well designed.

I think I may have found an issue in Grand Cavalier Chess. In Self-play mode - 2 people on same PC. The Cavalier (Knight Pawn) is not able to get to the last rank for capture or promotion.

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Question: according to the rules If you do not have any captured pieces the Cavalier can not promote. Can it go to the last rank for a capture and not promote if you have no captured pieces? ===

Can you check this?

Thank you.

Jim

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/frogsandprincess

I think this is ready to be published.

Based on some comments in the past. I think there is a playtest applet, that can make something (code?) to show/generate legal moves. Does that exist? If yes, I have a blank board that I would like to add code so that it will show legal moves, and would like the playtest applet to make the legal moves/code.

A few months ago (perhaps a year or more), the code for shogi was modified. We now seem to have special variables like pawn-range etc.

The code I copied and modified many years ago does not seem to be working. Below is an error message below that I got using my old code where b is a black bishop, when I attempt to do a drop I seem to get the error message The move MOVE: b*9h ain't well-formed.

Any suggestions on how I should correct this?

Array ( [0] => MOVE: [1] => b [2] => * [3] => 9h )

ILLEGAL: b*9h on turn 8:

The move MOVE: b9h ain't well-formed. b is a coordinate. So should be a hyphen.

Go back with your browser's BACK button, reload the page, and try again.

For diagnostic purposes, here is the full movelist:

1. p 8g-8f 1... P 8c-8d
2. n 9i-8g 2... N 9a-8c
3. n 8g-7e 3... N 8c-9e
4. n 7e-8c; +n-dest 4... N 9e-8g; +N-dest
5. +n 8c-9b 5... +N 8g-9h // - bCapture- -
6. s 8i-9h 6... B*8g // - Check! -
7. s 9h-8g 7... P 4c-4d
8. b*9h

Using Self play against the game https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Pocket+Shogi+Copper&settings=default

Now move the black bishop to the center of the board without a capture (when that move is legal). (3rd or 4th move)

I think This move will produce a "move" parse error IMO.

There has been no coding changes to that game for many years.

I'm not sure if this is a bug. I just attempted to play Kamikaze Mortal Shogi with 2 people on the same computer.
It appears to me that the screens came up properly, but the game did not show legal moves. (FYI). This was in the 1st move and not on drop moves. (I did not test that). Shogi seems to have had something simmilar, but you fixed that. Thank you. :)

It's Tuesday 1/24/2023 18:07 EDT. About 1.5 hours ago I was playing pocket shogi copper, and I made my move. My opponent made his move, and now when I go into the gameroom wdtr2-cvgameroom-2023-20-548 the game blow up. It seems to be dumping the piece array. Worse than that if I click on the game not the game room the object blows up also. It seems almost like the instruction file (program) was wiped/modified/or became corrupt. It was working about 2 hours ago. Note: I did make a modification to this game about 2 or 3 days ago, so if you had to do a restore from a few days back this would explain the unusual behavior. Thanks, Jim aka wdtr2.