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House of Mirrors Chess. Mirrors and reflective pieces add interesting twists to strategy by making pieces appear in 2 or 3 places at the same time. (8x8, Cells: 87) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 04:33 PM UTC:

hey, gary.  no, i think i understand the movement ok (probably manage to
prove myself wrong soon).  

it's more the concept of them being mirrors that i don't get.  if the
mirrors are simply floors, it doesn't make any sense to me.  the pieces
would just reflect back up onto themselves.  logically then, the mirrors
face each other?  that's ok, although it makes me think there's a weird
backing like a wall behind each mirror.  

but that idea doesn't work so well when there are three mirrors in a
line.

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 01:37 AM UTC:

ok, thanks. i just wondered if i was missing something.

Crazyhouse. A two-player version of Bughouse. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Aug 6, 2006 10:25 PM UTC:

bug?
my game with je ju seems to have recorded the wrong winner for some
reason.
Crazyhouse&log=carlos-jejujeju-2006-214-320

Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 02:35 PM UTC:

anyone know/care to estimate piece values for this game?

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 11:44 PM UTC:

thanks, antoine! that's interesting stuff.

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 08:01 AM UTC:

bug in the preset?
i can't castle... thanks in advance.

ChessV

. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 09:01 AM UTC:

hey greg, help me out. i downloaded the whole zip thing. then i click on the exe. file and choose a game... the board comes up. there are no pieces! i tried a few different games...

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 12:50 PM UTC:

There should be a subdirectory called 'images' and then subdirectories
under that for the different piece sets.

Ok, I checked that and that's right. the images are in subds under
images, they're not out in the main directory.

maybe i still don't get it.  is there something else that i can try and
fix?

carlos carlos wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 03:33 PM UTC:

ok! the first suggestion was right after all... it looks cool. i'm gonna try a few games out.

Poll number Preference Poll for Third Game Courier Tournament. Sign up for the 3rd Game Courier tournament by voting in this poll.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Wed, Sep 6, 2006 10:21 AM UTC:

wow, i'm surprised pocket mutation chess missed out.

carlos carlos wrote on Wed, Sep 6, 2006 04:32 PM UTC:

huh? that list has changed!

Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Sat, Sep 9, 2006 04:52 PM UTC:

for me:

glinskis hexagonal chess
omega chess
templar chess
time travel chess
capablanca random chess
modern shatranj

carlos carlos wrote on Sat, Mar 10, 2007 04:34 AM UTC:

just checked in. i'm still keen to play, and i'm sure je ju and juan rodriguez are too (i work with them). have the games been assigned? i can't find logs anywhere.

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Apr 1, 2007 09:06 AM UTC:

avalanche chess = balanced avalanche chess, right?

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Apr 1, 2007 09:15 AM UTC:

when it comes to this tournament i mean.

carlos carlos wrote on Thu, May 17, 2007 10:06 AM UTC:

fergus or antoine,

if you want to show me or tell me how to set up the games and send them out to people, i'll do it.

carlos carlos wrote on Thu, May 17, 2007 02:38 PM UTC:

yeah, four games at a time was fine. the time controls are pretty generous.

English Random Chess. Standard chessmen on a 10x10 board, with randomized piece setup. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, May 18, 2007 01:58 PM UTC:

which row is promotion on?

Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Mon, Jul 30, 2007 11:06 AM UTC:

jeremy, what happened with that?

if the tournament is indefinitely on hold, is anyone interested in an alternative, less formal tournament in the meantime?  maybe based on one inventor's games?  someone with a bunch of games to choose from - gifford/duniho/lavieri for example.

2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 03:20 AM UTC:

i vote for either a conceptual theme or the varying squares idea.

Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 7, 2007 11:24 PM UTC:Poor ★

As a user noted, and is stated in many BEGINNER chess books: Castling is a special move undertaken by both the rook and king, the sole purpose of being able to meet the following: Tuck the king away in a corner (either kingside or queenside) so that it is AWAY from the center and (in most cases) safe from hostile activity. Centralize the rooks so that they can be brought to action along the center files d1 (d8) and f1 (f8).

Fischer's castling rules satisfy the above requirements, while the proposed suggestion is completely illogical and should be discarded.

Many people seem to have a problem with Castling and stalemate rules. Think of castling as moving the king to a special bunker to hide from attack and think of stalemate as the king committing suicide so that your opponent cannot claim to have killed it (which is the objective of the game - to kill the king).

Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 14, 2007 05:05 AM UTC:

let's do it.

i only just realized you can do it all from the preset page.  i just trialed setting up a new tournament round and then assigning a game between jejujeju-carlos.  seemed to work.  simple. 

what's the word from fergus?  is antoine around?

what are we going to do then?

1/ continue with tournament 3, anyone who doesn't move simply loses on time and that's that.  withdrawals from the tournament also means you lose all your remaining games (only option, isn't it?).  are most people still around?

2/ start a new tournament (established games).

3/ joe's BYO idea.  

i'm willing to assign games.

i vote 1 or 2.  i don't have any games to bring!

carlos carlos wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2007 10:49 PM UTC:

how about this?

i'll get two games going for everyone (except sam and fergus) after work today.  i'll use the same time controls we used for round 1, and the games will be rated.

is that cool?

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2007 05:23 AM UTC:

sorry, wasn't following the discussion about ratings properly.

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2007 05:41 AM UTC:

i just assigned the game between adrian and sam as a test to see if it would come up under the right filters when you search on the logs page and the ratings page.  this seemed to work.  i know that sam is not playing anymore.  if adrian moves, sam will presumably time out and it will be logged as a victory for adrian.  sorry, sam, for the automatic loss.  i'm sure you don't mind too much.

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