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The Prince Consort in Fergus Duniho's Caissa Britannia also moves as a marching Queen, capturing King.
Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Gigachess. On 14 by 14 board with 20 different pieces. (14x14, Cells: 196) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would like to play Alice Chess Anti-King Chess II Avalanche Chess Berolina Chess Cannons of Chesstonia Catapults of Troy Pocket Mutation Chess Shako Glinkski's Hexagonal Chess Falcon Chess I would prefer to avoid Janus Chess Modern Shatranj Shatranj of Troy
Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Chess according to Zillions: Q=7.6 R=4.6 B=3.2 N=2.7 P=1 Shako according to Zillions: Q=8.9 R=5.6 B=3.6 N=3.0 P=1 C=5.5 E=2.9 Xiang Qi according to Zillions: R=5.4 C=5.35 Chess : Q=9 R=5 B=3.3 N=3 P=1 XiangQi : R=12 C=6 H=5 E=3 F=2 P= 1 or 2 (before or after crossing the River) -- so Zillions is very wrong about R=C. Cylindrical Chess: R=B (two eight-square files) -- colourboundness doesn't matter. Zillions should be right about N=E (eight squares) for Shako. I would add something for the Cannon and substract something for the Queen because a Cannon is as dangerous as a Knight to a Queen (and an Elephant isn't, by the way). So, Q=10 R=5.5 C=4 B=4 N=3 E=2.8 P=1 in the opening. Q=10 R=6 B=4 C=3 N=3 E=2.8 P=1 in the midgame. Q=10 R=6.5 B=4 N=2.5 E=2.5 C=2 P=1 in the endgame (if the Pawn isn't particularly strong, of course).
Les Règles des Échecs. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Vous avez tout à fait raison. Si le seul moyen d'éviter le mat est de prendre la pièce faisant échec (ou une autre), la prise est obligatoire.
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]No, the picture has also been corrected. The old PNG still appears in your browser and mine because of a cache problem, but if you look with another browser, the two black bishops now stand on squares of different colors.
Doppleganger Chess. Pieces and their doppelgangers are connected for capture and promotion! (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have simply erased the pre-game, pre-move, post-move and post-game fields.
Chess/Xianqi/Shogi Tournament #1. Enter the First Chess/Xiangqi/Shogi Game Courier Tournament![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would prefer more than three players for the Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi phase. How about a Shogi event starting in January, then a Chess event starting in March, then a Xiangqi event starting in May (because Shogi tends to take more time than Chess, which tends to take more time than Xiangqi)?. Each event would have the players moving twice as White and twice as Black. If say three players tie for first, the BS/SB method ranks them for tie-breaks, with player 2 moving first against player 3, and the winner moving second against player 1, so that there are seldom more than six games for an individual event (and only four if you don't tie for first). Then you give 1 point to the winner, 0.5 point to the runner up, 0.333 to the third ranked player, and so on... in each game, and you qualify the seven better players for the second round (thus, the winners for a single event always get qualified). These seven players move each once as White and once as Black at each game, with a higher BS/SB ranking in a tie-break situation giving the higher-ranked player the right either to move first (and the lower-ranked player choosing at which game) or to choose between Chess, Xiangqi or Shogi (and the lower-ranked player moving first).
I would suggest to hold a second Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi Tournament at the beginning of next year, but not before the bulk of GCT#3 is over. However, it might be worth discussing the Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi formula right now. Should it still be a three-phase Tournament or should it be completely revamped? In my opinion, a two-phase Tournament would be simpler, with nine games in the first phase (each player moving first twice at Chess and once at Xiangqi or vice versa, since moving first as Shogi doesn't matter a lot), and the players with two wins and a draw, or either two wins or a win and two draws and enough points, advancing to the individual tournaments, with the higher-ranked player always moving first, or enjoying a bye in some situations. (This way, a single loss in the first phase wouldn't completely bar a player from entering the Tournament for that variant.) Of course, a one-phase Tournament would be even simpler, but then there would be no Chess Champion, Xiangqi Champion or Shogi Champion, which might turn off competitors who are mostly interested into one game, but would be willing to enter a CXS Tournament because they might do well at their favourite game in the second phase. The formula should mostly depend of how many games the future participants are willing to play.
The Frog was devised by Tucker Kao for his game Presiding Chess. You can view a list of Alfaerie or Alfaerie-like pieces for the alfaerie-many piece file at this preset.
(I misread Tucker Kao as Tucker Rao, hence the TR_ prefix.)
(I misread Tucker Kao as Tucker Rao, hence the TR_ prefix.)
Chess/Xianqi/Shogi Tournament #1. Enter the First Chess/Xiangqi/Shogi Game Courier Tournament![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Because of the server shutdown, one of the players has lost seven days in each game. I don't know exactly how to add more time to that player only, but at the very least it shouldn't be too difficult to add manually a week's time to both players, which I intend to do for the games whose player who has been deprived of time prefers it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Aw! I have noticed that ties are decided by Buchholz-Sokoloff before Sonneborg-Berger just after having sent emails to the seven remaining players telling them that the games should be assigned Saturday. Mercifully it doesn't seem to change the ranking.
Since I am presently unable to access the control panel, I'll write the results hereafter. The last game of Chess between Nicola Caridi and Thomas McElmurry ended in a draw. FD 4 points, SB=10, qualified at Xiangqi JG 1 point, SB=0 TT 3 points, SB=5, qualified at Chess SH 4 points, SB=8, qualified at Xiangqi PP 0 point, SB=0 NC 4.5 points, SB=10.75, qualified at Chess and Shogi TM 2.5 points, SB=3.75 NF 1.5 points, SB=1.25 AF 5 points, SB=15.5, qualified at Chess and Xiangqi DP 2.5 points, SB=4.25, qualified at Shogi GG 5 points, SB=12, qualified at Chess and Shogi The overall ranking is AF GG NC FD SH TT DP TM NF JG PP. Hence the second-round games will be: Chess AF vs. GG, AF vs. NC, AF vs. TT, GG vs. NC, GG vs. TT, NC vs. TT Xiangqi AF vs. FD, AF vs. SH, FD vs. SH Shogi, GG vs. NC, GG vs. DP, NC vs. DP, with the player named first moving first. To qualify for the second-round play-offs, a player will have to tie for first or to be just half a point behind (excepted for Nicola Caridi who qualified at Chess with a win and a draw). So, if a player wins all his games in a variant, he will be declared Champion for that variant. I am also directly qualified for the third round with the Chess Champion, the Xiangqi Champion and the Shogi Champion, with Gary Gifford, Nicola Caridi and Fergus Duniho as possible substitutes in case of overlap.
This Tournament is less important than the yearly Game Courier Tournament, and it is CXS#1 which has to adapt its schedule to GCT#3. Since the poll for GCT#3 hasn't started yet, I propose to start to assign the games next week, since there are players who may be willing to play in both tournaments and would prefer to avoid too much overlap. However, the players who prefer to play their second-round games this summer or this fall may ask for a delay. So, please state whether you prefer to play your second-round games now or later (in which case it may be even later, if your opponent so wishes). I also intend to use looser time limits (28 days and 20 hours). The third round will probably have to be played at the start of next year.
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. Various decimal chess variants with extra pawns and conventional pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would guess that these comments were in fact spam links for casinos or other commercial sites (to raise their google ranking), and were erased manually by an(other) Editor.
Yes, since you'll have to enter all the captures yourself anyway (either with an @ preceding the position of the captured piece or a minus sign following the position of the captured piece, say W b2-b4; b1-; W b4-c4; a4- or L b2-b7; @-b3; @-b5. But if your rules differ too much from Ultima as it is usually played here, perhaps you should modify the above preset yourself with the Edit command and enter a slightly different name for the game, such as Ultima with augmented Withdrawers, so that it gets listed separately.
This preset doesn't check for anything and should let you enter any move. But it would take too much time to write a move-verifying preset for uncommon subvariants.
I modified a line on your logfile. It now refers to the previous preset ($settings='Galacticnocheck' instead of $settings='Galactic'). But even that preset won't allow a King to stay behind a non-adjacent fellow piece when both are threatened by a (Long-) Leaper.
Shanghai Palace Chess. A blend of Chinese, Japanese, and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It looks like there were errors in both the preset and the shanghai2 set.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]25 comments displayed
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