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Sky

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Link to play Sky with Game Courier: Sky

Thanks to Joe Joyce for making this preset, and allowing the world to play Sky :))

Piece Descriptions: Tripper: (3-3) leaper - Commuter: (4-4) leaper - Threeleaper : (0-3) leaper - Fourleaper: (0-4) leaper - gam Flamingo: (6-1) leaper - Antelope: (4-3) leaper - Lancer: (4-2) leaper - Root-fifty leaper: (7-1), (5-5) leaper - Fiveleaper: (0-5), (4-3) leaper - Rook: standard rook - King: standard king -

There are 2 promotional lines leading to Rook.

1. Tripper -> Threeleaper -> Flamingo -> Lancer -> Fiveleaper -> Rook

2. Commuter -> Fourleaper -> Antelope -> Root-fifty leaper -> Fiveleaper -> Rook

Logs of Sky

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Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and Joe Joyce. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
Web page created: 2006-05-06. Web page last updated: 2012-11-10

Game Courier Logs

Game Courier Logs for Games of Sky

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Credits

Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and Joe Joyce. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.

Comments

Sky. Brilliant original game by Christine Bagley-Jones. Pieces promote through a succession of odd leapers eventually to a rooks.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 01:19 PM EST in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Fri Feb 17 05:57 PM:

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.

That should be fixed now. In the code for assigning coordinate labels, there was the code

if (empty($ry))
    $ry = "null";

The variable $ry was for the rank label for the rank with the raw number of $y, and it was turning 0 into null. Removing it fixed the problem.

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 05:31 AM EST in reply to Greg Strong from Fri Feb 17 07:17 PM:

satellite=sky files=10 ranks=10 promoZone=3 maxPromote=10 promoOffset=2 promoteInside=1 graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=png?nocache=true lightShade=#ffffd5 darkShade=#008a2f rimColor=#3377dd coordColor=#eeee58 borders=0 firstRank=1 midX=2 midY=3 useMarkers=1 newClick=1 tripper::G:edgehog:c2-h2,g1 commuter::AY:monkey:a1,b1,i1,j1 threeleaper::H:butterfly:c1,h1 fourleaper::WX:crab:d1,f1 flamingo::CX:bird2: antelope::NY:unicorn: lancer::DY:mage: root-50 leaper::FXXGY:bird: fiveleaper::DXNY:flyingkingfisher: fiveleaper::DXNY:flyingkingfisher: rook:::: rook:::: king::K::e1

Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 07:17 PM EST in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 05:57 PM:

@Fergus, please look at this. I know there are a lot of demands for your time but this is a big issue.

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.

It seems any GC preset or diagram designer diagram that has a rank "0" no longer works.

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 05:57 PM EST in reply to Kevin Pacey from 05:03 PM:

The preset for this game is broken because every game is that has a rank labelled 0.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 05:53 PM EST in reply to Kevin Pacey from 05:03 PM:

For some reason this game is not showing up in the main Alphabetical index unless I look under "S" - in fact there is no "Sk" symbol for the index currently showing at all(!).

I have added a link for Sk.

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First Created: Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Last Modified: Saturday, November 10th, 2012
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