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quantumplation wrote on Tue, May 4, 2004 06:55 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Just a suggestion. Could you add a 'Regional Variants' category to your sortings? This would include Chess variants that originated in specific regions of the world. Xiang Qi, Shatar, Shogi, Etc, would be in this section. Things like mexican chess wouldn't count, which are named as though they are a regional variant, but are infact not related to the region much at all. Anyway, just an idea =) keep up the good work, everyone!
Alexander E. Stevens wrote on Tue, May 11, 2004 01:14 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Oh wait, I suppose that's pretty much covered by historic variants. Just wasn't the first place i thought of looking for specifically international variants. sorry =)
Historical Variants covers regional variants only partially. Oriental Variants should cover the rest.
I've been visiting this site for quite a while and I find the random page feature particularly nice. However, would it be possible to add a feature where can call up say, 10 random pages? It's just that this would be quicker if the random page is something I've already seen, at the moment I have to cycle between 'What's New' and 'What's New (All Languages).
Great site. Almost everything that I need to know. Thanks ken
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David Howe, our chief editor who manages the overall workings of this site, has added a nice new feature. This is a link to all the Game Courier logs for a particular game on its game page. This link (if any logs exist) can be found at the bottom of each game's description page. Take a look! Thanks, David!
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2004 04:10 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Yes! This feature is very nice! Is there any maximum age of those which will saved, or will you keep them so long as disk space permits?
Actually, this was the joint work of David Howe and Fergus Duniho. I wrote most of the code and gave David some blanks to fill in. It is a link to the Logs page for showing every publicly viewable log that has been played for a specific game. As you can tell by looking at the Age field when you go to the logs page, there is no age limit on the logs shown.
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2004 10:19 PM UTC:<p>Fergus Duniho says:
<blockquote>As you can tell by looking at the Age field when you go to the logs page, there is no age limit on the logs shown. </blockquote></p>
<p>Just because the age field has an option labled 'anytime' doesn't mean that you intend to save them forever. It was a perfectly reasonable question.</p>
I misunderstood your question. I don't know about forever, but I may save them until the end of the world, which some say is about eight years. I don't delete logs on the basis of age, but I do leave the option for the players of a game to delete its log, and I also retain the ability to delete any log, though I avoid making much use of it. Generally, my intention is to keep the logs for the sake of building up a huge library of games people have played of different Chess variants. I don't think the logs will make much of a dent in our diskspace, and by the time they do grow very large, webspace will probably be sold in the terabytes.
I inadvertently left out Fergus' Game Courier programming in my original comment about the new game logs feature. Thanks, Fergus.
Being able to view logs of all past and ongoing matches of particular games via the new links is a nice touch. Good going, David and Fergus, it's a very desirable feature.
This new feature did not involve any programming of Game Courier. I added a new feature to the logs page, and I wrote some PHP code that David translated into Perl. I have since used the PHP code to add the same feature to preset pages.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2004 06:06 PM UTC:Sweet! Thanks again; this is very useful for when I add new games to ChessV to be able to see logs of actual games for purposes of testing and creating opening books. Hopefully as the popularity of chess variants, this site, and the Game Courier grows, the number of game logs for the popular games will grow into the hundreds!
Congratulations to CVP upon completing ten yrs. Carrying on Sam Trenholme's tradition, CVP's first post was Jetan probably 15.1.95, this week. CVP's first 5 yrs. tilted towards serious alterations of standard western Chess: Fischer Random, review of ancestral mainstays Chaturanga and Shatranj etc. However, countervailing trend, oblivious to the idea of perfectibility, was already apparent. For close-to-FIDE forms, 8x10 became the favourite board size. Piece mixes were often unchanged from 400-yr-old Carrera's, yet never was there discussion of Marshall's(Chancellor's) being inherently flawed piece, detracting from both R&N. Another missed opportunity was when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, but to this day orthodox world is also house divided about implications of computer dominance. The second 5 yrs. saw Ralph Betza defying the usual bell-shaped design trajectory in vanishing right upon completion of his 2-3 most prolific yrs. Since 2000 CVP games more often add bizarre rules hardly intended to be played, and blend Shogi-derived and Xiangqi-based pieces with western types, and thankfully(!?) no end in sight. So far nothing by Sam Loyd and very little T.R.Dawson or Martin Gardner, probably because David Pritchard in ECV overlooks them too. Almost all CVP-recognized games predate 1995, as do thousands of other curiosities not within its scope. Excluding those, the best form devised within CVP's domain during the ten yrs. 1995-2004? I vote Switching Chess and Rococo, appropriately one from each of the two schools, standard heterodox and free-form.
For those of you that look at 'What's New' in English you may have missed that Antoine Fourrière has been creating very nice pages in French. If you would like to see 'What's New' in all languages, look at this URL: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/whatsnewalllang.php
A newcomer would know nothing about the existence of Game Courier and find no listing at all on this main index page. So, shouldn't it be updated to include it?
you have to click on 'play' at the top of the page, but i agree, it doesn't stand out at all
Hi,
I just want to comment on such an informative Chess site....I have already referred several club players here.
Keep up the good work. Would like to see more active postings too!
Roger
www.secretsofchess.com
Bad Link: The 'Subject Index' link for 'Pieces' actually leads to the one for 'Puzzles'
Why is it taking so long to approve the member-submitted items?
A very nice webpage there! Best wishes, International Master Jovan Petronic FIDE Senior Trainer Chairman, FIDE Computer & Internet Chess Committee ASEAN Chess Academy Consultant FIDE Trainers' Committee member Kavala Chess Club Technical Advisor Federal Trainer, Greece Chess Federation Web: http://www.jovanpetronic.com Chess Software Reviews: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/chessreviews.htm
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