Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

The Piececlopedia is for well-established pieces, usually appearing in more than one person's games/problems.  We have separate Piece Articles for newer, more experimental, more niche pieces, but this means the Piececlopedia is not often updated.

First, my comment was generic, meant only as a response to your most recent comment; it would be up to Fergus (in charge of the Piececlopedia) to decide whether the Huygens merits inclusion there.

If not: you can submit your description as a Game, and before publishing I (or another editor) will change the page type to Piece.  Presumably you will just use the Introduction, Pieces, and Notes sections of the form.

[Actually, we could also change the type to Piececlopedia if Fergus would decide it acceptable.  But it looks like all but one Piececlopedia pages are hard html; Querquisite is the only one I noticed that was a database/MS page.]

There are 85 Piece articles and 144 in the Piececlopedia (counting repeats).  Most of the Piece articles discuss more than one piece; many analyze pieces rather than introducing new ones.  In searching for this information, I found something:

Fergus, the Link texts are misbehaving again (including the Primary-only search).  Is this connected to your "game-centered" move?

Fergus, Ben, Greg, what's the normal amount of time for CVP to decide if material (such as below, which I also submited at "Post your own Games") can be added to the Piececlopedia or as a side-article?

I know you guys are working on the CKEditor. But the material I posted is pre-formatted, displays correctly, and is ready to go.

The only question is if Fergus is OK with the huygens having his "pyramid" artwork to be used as a piece shape. (If not, then the scientific design can be the primary piece shape).

The article I wrote is complete, but I would also be completelly fine with anyone adding to it, and then it being posted with two authors.

It's time for CVP to have a new piece added to Piececlopedia. It's been awhile since the last one!

Are people not getting my emails? I already told you by email that for now it suffices to have this piece described on the page for the game it appears in. Someone else unhid this page, but I hid it back.

Hi Fergus, I'm sorry - I did recieve your e-mail this morning but didn't realize you had sent it. To answer your questions about infinite chess, there are currently a few games in progress and some of them are on public game forums. (One game is a team competition between two groups, with one move being declared about every two days). Infinite chess is also being discussed on math forums, because of how it affects the ability of chess to be analyzed by game theory, and chess-playing software.

I did delete your graphic from my submission, because I will of course respect your artwork if you don't want it used for the huygens.

I also added a mention of Hans Bodlaender, and a link to a page where he discussed infinite chess in 2001. (As you know Hans was very innovative, and it's good to see the current team of editors for CVP continue to carry on his tradition).

I understand that the Piececlopedia is for pieces with a long tradition, so I understand you may not want it included there. But I hope you will make the article about the huygens visible to the public, so that these pages continue to be useful to people who might want to learn more about Infinite Chess, and the pieces that are used with it.

As always, I really appreciate your support.

To answer your questions about infinite chess, there are currently a few games in progress and some of them are on public game forums. (One game is a team competition between two groups, with one move being declared about every two days). Infinite chess is also being discussed on math forums, because of how it affects the ability of chess to be analyzed by game theory, and chess-playing software.

But is it your variant of Infinite Chess that they are playing or just an infinite version of regular Chess, as was described in the PBS video that was not about your Chess variant? That's relevant to whether the Huygens piece has any history of usage.

At one chess-playing forum, there are at least two games of my version "Chess on an Infinite Plane" being played. One of them is a team competition (3 players vs. 3 players). Another game in-progress is called "Chess on an Infinite Plane with Huygens Option" which is the same as Trappist-1 (a game described here at CVP).

Also, the huygens has received attention among the math community. An example is at the StackExchange Talk Forum, and also at the Talk Page of Joel Hamkins "A position in infinite chess with game value ω^4".

Please let me know if you'd like me to show any specific links.

Thanks as always Fergus,

Yes, please include links.

Hi Fergus, here are links to the four examples:

Chess on an Infinite Plane with Huygens Option

Chess on an Infinite Plane - Team Competition

Question at Stack Exchange about the Huygens

A position in infinite chess with game value omega to the ω^4 (huygens mentioned in discussion)

Thanks as always for your support,

Hi Fergus, have you had time to review and release this yet? I'm starting a new article for CVP now but would like to get this piece article released before submitting my next article.  My next article will be a short article about variant chess pieces in general. I hope to have it done in 2 or 3 days.