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Unnecessarily Complicated Chess. Members-Only Why do things the easy way, when doing them the hard way is so much more fun? (19x23, Cells: 423) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Mon, Apr 29 09:27 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from Sat Apr 27 07:09 PM:

I have done it but not sure it is a good idea because if you use "view as player B". It won’t be correctly oriented.

Well, that problem was kind of already baked in to begin with, unless you used a separate piece style like you do with the Shogi Motif pieces on the biscandine site.

The point is to make sure all the 2D Kanji are oriented correctly on the biscandine site. Anyone who has played Shogi long enough would immediately notice something was wrong with the second player's promoted minor pieces if they used the 2D Classic set for Seireigi.


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HaruN Y wrote on Mon, Apr 29 12:36 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

Ishskwaday III by Stuart Spence, AKA Zulban

files=5 ranks=9 promoZone=1 promoChoice=N graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaerieSVG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=svg royal=K borders=0 firstRank=1 rimColor=#ff0000 darkShade=#ff8d00 holeColor=#ffb400 lightShade=#ffce00 coordColor=#ffe700 hole::::a4,b4,a5,b5,a6,b6 pawn:P:ifmnDfmWfceF:pawn:c1,d1,e1,c2,d2,e2,c3,d3,e3,,c7,d7,e7,c8,d8,e8,c9,d9,e9 knight:N:N:knight:b1,a2,b2,a3,b3,,a7,b7,a8,b8,b9 morph=////....Z amazon:Z:QN:amazon: king:K:K:king:a1,,a9

Masonic Chess. (Updated!) Game played on a Masonic tile board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🔔Notification on Mon, Apr 29 01:51 PM UTC:

The author, Ben Reiniger, has updated this page.


Unnecessarily Complicated Chess. Members-Only Why do things the easy way, when doing them the hard way is so much more fun? (19x23, Cells: 423) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Hannibal Chess with Manticore and Falcon. Expansion for hannibal chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Mon, Apr 29 03:59 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sat Jan 6 10:21 PM:

@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?


Waffle Chess with Gryphon and Falcon. Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Mon, Apr 29 03:59 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Sat Jan 6 10:33 PM:

@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?


Waffle Chess with Manticore and Falcon. (Updated!) Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Mon, Apr 29 03:59 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Fri Dec 22 2023 06:45 PM:

@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?


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Waffle Chess with Gryphon and Falcon. Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 29 06:45 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 03:59 PM:

There was a typo in implementing a new property I had added. I added the displayPieces property, which when set above zero will display the piece table when the page loads. This much worked as it should, but when it was not set, it omitted the closing > in the tag, which caused what followed it to not be displayed.


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Mon, Apr 29 09:52 PM UTC:

When I go to any person information page and try to view unpublished submissions, it just shows my own submissions.


Lynx Chess. Members-Only Razorbill. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Pocket knight. Each player has a knight that he can drop during the game. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Apr 30 12:11 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Thu Nov 16 2023 03:39 AM:

Since when did the AI ​​stop using Pocket Knight in such a stupid way? I noticed that now the AI ​​doesn't drop it as quickly as possible.


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 30 01:58 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Mon Apr 29 09:52 PM:

When I go to any person information page and try to view unpublished submissions, it just shows my own submissions.

Okay, I corrected that.


Hannibal Chess with Manticore and Falcon. Expansion for hannibal chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Apr 30 06:11 AM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from Mon Apr 29 03:59 PM:

@Fergus

I could not figure out what closing tag you were mentioning. This ID still does not work properly!


Platonic Chess. Platonic solids in a complete 10x10 chessboard.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Apr 30 07:21 AM UTC:
files=10 ranks=10 promoZone=0 promoChoice=FDBPR graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=png royal=K extinction=0 firstRank=1 darkShade=#99ffb4 rimColor=#7de374 lightShade=#9ffa35 coordColor=#eefa35 pawn:P:ifmnDfmWfceFfmpafmpafmpafmpafoabmpafmpafmpafmpafa(b)cWfmpafmpafmpafoabfmpafmpafmpafavsbcWfmpafmpafmpafoabfmpafmpafabcWfmpafmpafoabmpafmpafavs(af)1cWfmpafoabmpafampaf(s)1cWfoaba(af)3cWfoabafsmpafcW:warmachine:a3,b3,c3,d3,e3,f3,g3,h3,i3,j3,,a8,b8,c8,d8,e8,f8,g8,h8,i8,j8 Icosahedron:F:AW4:ferz:a1,j1,,a10,j10 Octahedron:B:F2:bishopinv:c1,h1,,c10,h10 Dodecahedron:P:DN:pawninv:b1,i1,,b10,i10 Cube:R:fW2F:rookinv:d1,g1,,d10,g10 Tetrahedron:K:WisO2:elephant:e1,f1,,e10,f10

BTW, why did your name appear in my English test? And why did you disagree with students coming to school with smartphones?


Pocket knight. Each player has a knight that he can drop during the game. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 30 10:34 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 12:11 AM:

I suppose I implemented the idea I described earlier in this thread, to give U moves a penalty in the positional range. I don't remember when I did that. (Or in fact that I did it at all.)

BTW: K-side castling is done with the pocketed Knight, instead of the Rook! Better move the pocket squares to 2nd rank.


Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Tue, Apr 30 01:46 PM UTC:

@François Houdebert,

I've noticed for a while that for the 2D Classic Jocly sprites for Seireigi, all the promoted (red) kanjis being mirrored rather than being rotated 180 degrees like they should be, which looks a bit ugly and may confuse certain players, especially those who are used to single-kanji graphics.

Attached is a spritesheet that fixes this, which I would like uploaded to the biscandine site.

www.chessvariants.com/play/jocly/dist/browser/games/chessbase/res/shogi/seireigi-shogi-sprites.png


Lynx Chess. Members-Only Razorbill. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Apr 30 03:41 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from Sun Apr 28 07:51 PM:

I still have no idea whether all 10 of my submissions awaiting review stink, or whether I'm super-buried in the queue, or...?


Hannibal Chess with Manticore and Falcon. Expansion for hannibal chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 30 03:43 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 06:11 AM:

I could not figure out what closing tag you were mentioning.

I already fixed that bug, and it was in my code, not yours.

This ID still does not work properly!

I tested it in Safari, Edge, and Firefox this morning, and it was working in all of them, though I did have to reload the page in Firefox before the board would display.


💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Apr 30 04:16 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:43 PM:

That is odd. For me in edge it does not work. Or at least 3 diagrams. But it does work in Firefox.


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Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Apr 30 04:19 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 03:41 PM:

I suspect the last; I have two rules pages (Monster Mash and Xodohtro Chess), two GC presets (Hundred Acre Chess and Food Fight), and a Piececlopedia article (Okapi) waiting to be published.


Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Apr 30 04:39 PM UTC:

Is there a possibility of creating the preset with gating, especially when players gate their pieces in different places?


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