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Thomas McElmurry wrote on Mon, Feb 20, 2006 03:49 AM UTC:
But the strange thing is that it's only a few games (Chess, Balanced Marseillais Chess, possibly others) that behave this way. With most games, the piece set (and other display settings) can be changed in the URL. For example, the Xiangqi preset defaults to pieces with simplified characters, but it's possible to change to traditional characters.

My reason for using the URL to tweak settings is that I make copious use of bookmarks, so that I can get to any game with just a few keystrokes. And if I want to use the positions from my games as desktop backgrounds, this is most easily done if I can construct a URL that produces an image using my preferred piece set and the appropriate orientation. I've done this happily for many of the games I've played via Game Courier, but I can't do it for a game of chess. I can look at the board from Black's side, or I can use the Alfaerie pieces, but for some reason I can't do both.