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Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
The Jocly names are not very difficult to guess, even though a bit strange at times. It turned out that Jocly was not able to recognize the *-model.js and *-view.js files in the chessbase directory if the name of the variant did not end in '-chess'. Normally that is automatically what you get when replacing all the spaces in the commonly used names by hyphens. E.g. team-mate-chess, wild-tamerlane-chess. When the name contains 'chess' as a suffix (like Gigachess), you still need the hyphen (giga-chess); the rules file and thumbnail then usually don't carry the hyphen (giga-chess-model.js, but gigachess-thumb.png).
When the common name doesn't contain the word 'chess', it is usually added (shako-chess, kaisergame-chess). When it is a Shogi variant (which were all implemented by me, as the standard Jocly chessbase module did not support piece drops), I either appended the -chess suffix (so regular shogi became shogi-chess), or replaced the word 'shogi' by 'chess' (chu-chess, tenjiku-chess). I did not do this entirely consistently, though (Tori Shogi is tori-shogi-chess). But it is not too late to change that. (Just a matter of renaming the files, and put the new name in jocly-allgames.js.)