Ratings & Comments

As far as I can tell, it seems to conform to your existing English page, but alas knowledge of Russian among the Editors is extremely limited. If one of our other Russian‐speaking friends (@Вадря?) can confirm that the text matches I'm happy to publish.

Bþw, I think you could get away with translating the text on the piece‐set buttons too; whether you want to transliterate Bob's surname is a matter of taste (I suppose Bob would get a say too), but ‘Galactic’ and ‘Joyful’ are, after all, just words… The same would in principle apply to the explanatory text on the Interactive Diagram, but (having not checked the details of its operation) I assume that's not directly under your control (@H.G.: any plans for i18n support?)

how to enlarge the list of non-English pages which are MS rather than games’ pages?

Not sure what you mean here; this page lists what seems to be all non‐english pages in the database, in case that's what you're looking for; otherwise please be more specific

Cf.

And Haru's question regarding null moves in that game applies equally here (I'd imagine probably illegal as is the usual default, but worth clarifying anyway)

I'd be interested to see how the balance fares here; presumably it's biased towards Black, but by how much?

Thank you!

Jester Chess v.2

I have adjusted my pending variants. It would be nice if this could be given some attention again.

I have approved this page, as it does its job well enough to be eligible. Sure, some improvements could be made, but for now it is good enough.

I'll fix it later ! Thanks !

Not sure what you mean here; this page lists what seems to be all non‐english pages in the database, in case that's what you're looking for; otherwise please be more specific

The last five pages (in Chinese) in that list are exactly what I mean — member submitted items rather than game pages .

I can confirm that the Russian text fully corresponds to the English version.

But what did you mean by ‘enlarge’? You mean you want to add more of those?

In any case, I've now published this and correctly set the language as Russian; you can now find it near the bottom of the aforementioned page (just above the Chinese pages)

EDIT: I've now also added it to a Group with the English page, but it seems to only have had half the desired effect: the English page is now accessible from the Russian one via the Related menu on the menu bar, but the reverse is not the case; could one of the more experienced editors who knows how the Groups subsystem works (@Fergus?) give a quick explanation? EDIT 2: Seems it had to do with this page getting unpublished due to my browser caching metadata‐editor form values; the Related menu has liks both ways now

Question: What happens if the outcome of all possible moves for a player whose turn it is leaves the opposing player with no possible moves?

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The author, Lev Grigoriev, has updated this page.

Thank you for your kind words, and glad you're enjoying it as much as I do. Your comment pretty much sums up this chess variant perfectly. I especially enjoy the way that control of the available squares, and freeing up more squares through sacrifice, plays more of a role in this variant than in traditional chess.

It seems adding it to the group had reverted both the publishing and the Language‐label change. I've set it to Public/Russian again, and it's also now showing up on the Related menu for the English page

@Fergus: The Metadata‐editing page seems to default to Members‐only/English even now; other recently‐published pages (Mischia, f.ex.) seem to lack this issue. Any particular reason this might be? EDIT: Seems that Firefox caches the default values fsr; refreshing the cache solves the problem

I'm trying to figure out the solution to this Chu Tsumeshogi (MSM B45) so I can include it in my Chu Shogi Applet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

FEN: 12/5+P6/1m5g3r/3+v+B1s1t+M2/1N4k5/m2etP3p2/7p+T3/2Px8/+p+A1+o7+M/1T2P+i2+p1n1/4+r7/12 w - 0 1

I am assuming that the grey Pawn is there.

There is a solution on the MSM Errata B page, but it leaves out the first 10 moves per player:

11... K-9k (11... K-8j 12. +BT-8h K-7k 13. Lnx9i K-6l 14. +SM-11l K-5k 15. Ln-7i K-4k 16. Ln-5i mate) 12. Lnx9i K-8l 13. Ln-10j K-7l 14. +BTx7j +Rx7j 15. Ln-9l K-6k 16. +SM-10k K-6j 17. Ln-8l K-6i 18. +SMx12i K-6h 19. Lnx7j K-6g 20. +SM-8i K-6f 21. Ln-6h K-7e 22. Lnx5g-5f K-8d 23. Ln-6f K-8c 24. +SM-5f K-9c 25. Ln-7d K-10d 26. +SMx8f K-11e 27. Lnx9d K-12f 28. Ln-10d K-12g 29. +SM-7g DE-9g 30. Ln-10e K-12h 31. +SM-10j K-11h 32. Ln-9g K-12i 33. Ln-10i mate

[Edit] I managed to find one that got the Gote King to 9k in 9 moves: 1. +Bg7 Kxg7 2. +Mxd4 Xxd4= 3. +Tih7 Kxf7 4. +Tg6 Ke6 5. +Tf5 Kd5 6. +Ab7 Mxb7 7. Tc4 Kxc4 8. Na6 Kd3 9. Nb5 Kd2