Comments by JaredMcComb

Whoops, I didn't think that I shouldn't nominate it because I made the
page.  I thought that I could do so because I didn't invent the game.

As for its popularity, it was made into a Super Famicom (Japanese SNES)
game (not many CVs are besides Chess and Shogi), although the rest of your
argument sort of makes this a moot point.

No offense, but I'd prefer that the ZRF for this game reflect the rules
correctly.  Not being very adept at programming myself, would you mind
doing this 'hacking' and updating the file accordingly?

Also, does this require Zillions 2.0 to work properly?  I haven't got
that so I won't be able to play this myself if it does.

'Gary, I believe that Manabu Terao and Manabu Terao are two different
people as much as I believe that Gus Duniho and Fergus Duniho are two
different people.'

No offense, but you could have saved some time and just said that in the
first place.  ;)

It's too expensive for me too -- although my brother and I
would love to get into it.  I guess we'll have to wait for a video game
release.  ;)

If I may clarify Larry Smith's clarification: When one piece captures 
another, the capturing piece gets all the captured piece's moves, except 
for those it already had, which it loses instead.  It's a bit of 
a 'toggle' if you will.

I tried to say that almost immediately after this game was posted but for 
some reason the comment system decided it hated me.

So why do weeks end on Wednesdays around here?

Extremely awkward.  The Tripper, Commuter, Threeleaper, and Fourleaper (and
Lancer, to a lesser extent) are all bound to a small subset of squares on
any size board, and the remaining pieces can be difficult to utilize well
due to their large and inflexible movement patterns.

This is my opinion, of course.

I have to wonder whether I should be honored for being included in this,
or insulted for having something I created be the basis for a section.

(Note: this comment is in jest.  Kinda.)

The only thing related to 'reclaiming a queen' in Chess is the promotion
of a pawn to a queen.  For this to happen, the pawn must reach the final
row of the board, from its owner's perspective - in other words, get your
pawn all the way to the other side of the board, and you can promote it to
a queen.

(Additionally, the term 'reclaiming' is a bit inaccurate here, because
it is possible to get more than one queen by doing this multiple times.)

Probably not too similarly, but it's certainly a good idea.

This reminds me, I've been meaning to make a SSBM-styled variant.

I have one as well, but have used it so much that the low-quality included
cardboard board is starting to fall apart.  Not that I'm selling it, of
course -- just be wary you may have to find someplace that will make
custom gameboards to replace yours, if you find one used.  (The pieces, on
the other hand, are lovely.  Quite heavy, plastic, and felt-bottomed.
Very sturdy.)  

What's all this about selling the property rights?  Hopefully someone
interested in selling high-quality sets will purchase it -- in my opinion,
Omega Chess is one of the best variants in existence!

The links to Taratibu and veSQuj seem to be missing.

Furthermore, the link to Shatranj Kamil 64 should point to
http://www.chessvariants.org/contests/10/shatranjkamil64.html
instead of where it does now.

When attempting to use one of the voting pages, I get a screenfull of the
following:

Warning: main(/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26

Warning: main(/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26

Warning: main(): Failed opening
'/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php' for
inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26

Perhaps this should be fixed.

Roberto, I'd like to point out that as of right now, when one 
Googles 'chessvariants,' the first related page that comes up under the 
main listing is this Xiang-Qi page.  If that isn't a good indicator of 
this game's popularity variant-wise, if not game-wise in general, I don't 
know what is.

(Incidentally, a search for 'xiangqi' gives this page second in the list, 
and a search for 'xiang-qi' or 'chinese chess' gives it first.)

Not to be nitpicky, but the plural of Pokémon is Pokémon.  'Pokémons'
sounds rather odd, to me anyways.

*has a brother who used to watch the cartoon all the time*

Promoter promotion is prohibited?  Perfect.

I personally prefer the prohibition of prehension of pieces by Promoters,
as it places the promoters in a pacifistic position where their perilous
promoting power is best placed in proximity to pieces of your own.  Why
pick off pieces when your position is productive for the other player?

Thanks for the offer!  I'll email you ASAP.

No, I don't have the Yonin page up -- in honesty, I haven't even started
it yet.  I may upload a quickie version using the new form, but don't
expect it to be all that great.  (It'll be an English resource, though,
which is what matters, and besides, I can edit it later!)

Hey Greg, you lost your bet.  ;)  I'm 19.  Sorry to be so late, computer
troubles.

Wow, y'all are geezers.  :P

I believe that what Mr. Nalls is getting at is that it almost seems that
someone is trying to get SPC to do well in the contest by giving it lots
of Excellents under different names.  Admittedly, I had been wondering
myself.

I'm not pointing any fingers right now, but whoever it is seems to be
getting a little silly.  Dead men, after all, do not have internet access.

Oops.

Yes, the board is 10 by 10, although the document itself does not reflect
that.

I think that whatever system we choose to use in the near future, we'll
just need more editors to run it.  Also, I think the wiki idea wouldn't be
that great.  If you want a CV Wiki, enter some pages into the Wikipedia.

I'd volunteer to be an editor, myself, if I knew enough HTML to be useful.

It seems to me that no comments from the 10 Contest page are showing up in
the main listing.  There are quite a few confused people there waiting for
things to happen.  On that note, perhaps a priority ought to be made to
update the contest, especially since the deadline is not very far away.

Or you could use rooks to represent knights, and knights to represent
rooks, and turn one rook upside-down.  Or one knight could be tipped on
its side.  The possibilities are vaguely endless.

In all seriousness, this game does sound interesting, if minimal in
overall variantage.  Whatever happened to the modest variants listing? 
There have been quite a few variants posted lately that could probably go
there.  Maybe it's time for an overhaul of said listing.

I am going to offer my interpretation/variant of the rules here.  This is
assuming each player has their own distinct set of quantae, which is how
it looks the game is played from the opening setup on this page.

A piece is not defined until it is moved, regardless of whether it can be
deduced as something or not.  In other words, the cycle is not complete
until every quantum on the board has moved and been defined.  When you
move a piece as a rook or bishop, you may choose to define it as a queen,
but you must define it as such immediately after moving it.  Once a piece
of yours has been captured, it's captured, and you can no longer define a
quantum to be that particular piece (of course, if you had two of them, and
one was captured, you can still use the other one).  If a quantum is
captured, we don't know what it was going to be, so after every piece of
yours has been defined, all the other ones that are still left are
considered captured and given to your opponent.  Of course, immediately
after the last quantum has moved, the cycle ends and each quantum suddenly
has the moving power of all the pieces you have left.

In other words, I'm for Full Actual resets, but I don't understand fully
the difference between Field and Player, so I can't say which I have just
stated I prefer.

The reason I like this method of play is that it more closely resembles
FIDE chess because once a piece is captured, it's removed from play, so
for example you can't redefine another quantum to be your Queen if
you've already lost your Queen.

Just my 2 cents.

The rating is for the new layout of the page.

One thing I find annoying about it, though, is the way the page instantly
jumps to a certain spot whenever you click on anything.  In my opinion, it
would be easier to navigate if it just sat where it was.

I do find it enjoyable, myself.  Of course, having played two games with
its inventor may have helped...

I didn't say your interpretation was wrong.  I was trying to imply that
the n in funny notation does not really make sense when we apply it to
hippogonal pieces (such as the knight, camel, zebra, etc.) since it does
not intrinsically imply the unblocked path a piece must take.

By 'move' in my previous comment, I meant 'the device by which a single
piece may end the turn on a square different from the one it started on.'

I have a copy of Gollon's book.  I can check this out later today.

EDIT: Checked it.  The book I'm using is Gollon's Chess Variants Ancient,
Regional, and Modern, first edition.  According to this book, the starting
position and stalemate rules are correct.

However, the promotion rule listed here is inaccurate.  First of all,
pawns do not promote to the piece which started on the promotion space,
but to the 'master piece' of that file.  In other words, the piece of
yours that started in that file is the one that determines promotion, not
the one of the opposing army.  This only has ramifications in the central
two files.

Gollon's rules also require the actual piece that started in the file to
which the pawn will be moving to have been lost, not just a piece of the
type.  (The example given is that a pawn cannot promote in the C file
until his elephant which started in the C file has been lost.)
Additionally, according to Gollon, a pawn may not even move to the last
rank unless it is able to promote, which is not stated here.

Fergus, I won't claim to be an artist, and in truth I haven't even looked
at the pieces you're talking about up close, but it sounds to me like
those white edges would be due to antialiasing against a white background
that they were created on.  Couldn't you edit them out pixel by pixel? 
Admittedly that would be time consuming, but it would look much nicer.

Just my two cents.

Thanks for your comment and rating.

I have noticed a large error in the paragraph by the first wizmate
example.  The wizard on the left can only execute wizmate by moving
southeast.  The wizard on the right can only execute wizmate by moving
directly west or southwest.  Therefore, there are only three
possibilities, not eight as I had assumed before taking the king's
black-line route into account.

Congratulations!

How did you choose the name, Paloma?  And what does it mean?

Since the name 'Life, the Universe and Everything' contains a comma, the
script cannot recognize it.

Just a heads-up.

Roberto: I actually got it from my mother, who ordered a board and a set of
wooden pieces from www.yutopian.com.  It's not too bad of a set, although
it's obviously not professional quality.

To stay on topic: Do we have a resource that lists the original Japanese
names (and English translations) of the pieces?  This page doesn't.

All the same, it would be nice to see who did.  If you don't wish to
disclose the information, though, why not just come out and say so?

I would assume BWII wasn't disqualified and was in fact not voted for
well, due to a bad case of rehash disease.  I honestly don't know what
came over me.

What happened to Dai-Ryu Shogi?  I submitted it several weeks ago...