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Synochess. Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Apr 28 08:28 PM UTC:You must not write anything on the row behind the =. Probably /..$= would already do. On encountering the = filling of the matrix skips to the friendly captures/hops, and at the same time copies what you already have defined in the row (so ..$ here) to the corresponding friendly interactions. What you continue after that will start to overwrite the copied friendly interactions.
Idk how to prohibit hops with captureMatrix. I thought captureMatrix=/..$=.........//////////// would work.
Edit: Fixed. Thx!
Is there a way editor(s) can let me know my 10 submissions to be reviewed have not been forgotten? I put out a comment for each of the 10 about two months ago that each was ready for review.
Astrohex. Members-Only Star-alike variant on irregular hexagons. (Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Ambitious Amphibies. Members-Only Another abnormal side for Chess with Different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Trojan chess. the rules for the knight piece have been changed. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Lynx Chess. Members-Only Razorbill. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
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]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
VaoQi. Members-Only XiangQi with Vaos. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the command to filter chess game would be :
gulp --no-default-games --modules src/games/chessbase build --prod
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Apr 28 10:20 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 06:48 AM:We could also ask the more general question of not keeping anything other than chess variants. Something to think about.
Indeed, that occurred to me too. We could easily delete all lines in the jocly-allgames.js file that do not refer to chess variants.
OTOH, the preferred access to the variants on this website appears to be through the Jocly overview page, not through the 'other Jocly games' link that the applet always shows. It is a bit silly when you first have to select a variant you don't want to play, and then switch. And the switch works in the applet, but not for the rule description page we embedded the applet in.
But the overview page also needs refactoring; listing the available variants by date is not helpful at all to the unwary visitor of this website. I am not sure what the best presentation is, though. I suppose alphabetically, even though this competes with what you could do (with some more knowledge and effort) in the site's alphabetical index.
I am also thinking of 'modernizing' the install here. By replacing jocly.game.js the Jocly core is already fully compatible with the recent source code. The only variant in the CVP install that has not been back-ported to source yet is Tenjiku Shogi. Since all game-specific model and view files include a version of the chessbase model and view, there is no harm in different variants needing different versions of these.
So we could replace all model and view files in the chessbase folder by those from the most-recent compile, and the images and supporting info file these use in the chessbase/res sub-tree as well. I think Tenjiku Shogi exclusively uses sprites, mesh files and diffusemaps from the shogi2 subdirectory, which does not exist in the source tree. Only jocly-allgames.js must be made to always have the extra line defining Tenjiku Shogi, compared to the version created by building Jocly from source.
Ambitious Amphibies. Members-Only Another abnormal side for Chess with Different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
12 Miles for Glory. Members-Only Pawn promotes to common pieces, but returns to turn into stronger ones. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I suggest you update jocly with HGM's version of capablanca and my timurid's version: they now have a prelude allowing you to select a sub-variant.
this will remove the need
- carrera, janus, gothic
- babur, wild mirza,wild babur, wild timurid
You could also add Fantastic XIII and bigorra.
We could also ask the more general question of not keeping anything other than chess variants. Something to think about.
Tic Tac Toe
Cannono. Pieces move by bifurcation, but capture normally. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I can't see the image for the Black to move & mate in one problem.
I do have my issue at Thingiverse reported, and the staff moderator has been able to duplicate my problem; so while I'm waiting for the dev staff to fix it, I might as well post a bit of a something to keep the PotD slots filled.
284-289. The Orthodox Pieces (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Pawn). While they're not really fairy chess pieces on their own, they do appear in a majority of chess variants, and I do have models of them in a single set. I don't think I need to identify any of them or discuss their moves.
Now, however long the team at Thingiverse takes, at least I won't (necessarily) have to worry about it before Friday. :)
Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Apr 27 09:26 PM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 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. I don't think we need to worry about that unless you think it is absolutely necessary.
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It's important to maintain backwards compatibility, and anyone who doesn't like the name of Aanca is free to use a different name with an alias.
Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]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.
Schoolbook. 
8x10 chess with the rook + knight and bishop + knight pieces added. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Anglojewish Chess. Hexagonal Chess with pieces following curved paths. (Cells: 91) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Apr 27 06:27 PM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 06:18 PM:I also updated the seireigi-sprites file one more time so that the promoted Kanjis are all facing the right way (you'll need to rename it to seireigi-shogi-sprites for it to have any effect on the biscandine site).
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/jocly/dist/browser/games/chessbase/res/shogi/seireigi-sprites.png
P. S. GIMP is awesome.
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