Comments by j_carrillo_vii

Fergus,

I sent a test email to the Mailing List and it responded well (you should
have got the test email as well).

My test message is now the first email showing in the 2016 message history
for the Mailing list.

Perhaps you have an emailing issue with Chess Courier in the routines that
do the invite portion.

Is the email address you use to send emails from Chess Courier to the Yahoo
Mailing List a member of the mailing list?

I don't have that box checked.

I'm starting from scratch from the chess preset:

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?submit=Edit

I used a different computer and Internet Explorer (IE11), and I was able to
see them. Thanks.

Thanks Fergus.

I'll try again.

Jose

Thanks Fergus.

OK. Thanks Fergus for confirming that Darren ran out of time, and that's why the game ended.

In this case then, shouldn't I receive an email saying that my opponent has run out of time?

Thanks.

Fergus,

Below is a sample email from Game Courier when a player resigns.

One cannot tell who resigned (difficult to tell, when one is playing many games of the same type), see the comments of one's opponent when he/she resigned, nor there is a link to the game just finished so that one can review it.

Is this an oversight?

Thanks.

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From: "play@chessvariants.com" <play@chessvariants.com>
To: xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 8:30 AM
Subject: Turkish Checkers: 22... resign

Hi Fergus,

In my Petteia XXI game with erik below, there has been two captures (one for each side):

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game=Petteia+XXI&log=j_carrillo_vii-erik-2016-178-557

However in the Game Couries box of Captured Pieces it is only showing one piece captured.

Can you please review the logic for captured pieces? Thanks.

Thanks Fergus for fixing the captured pieces logic.

Fergus, another opportunity for improvement.

When one of my opponents accepts an open invitation and chooses to be black, the I receive an email only with a subject but without any text or link to the game.

The subject alone doesn't even tell me that I'm white or that is my turn to play.

To play my first move, I have to go to my games to then find the game in question.

I forwarded you a sample email.

Hi Fergus.

I just started this game with Carlos Cetina:

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game=Modern+Capablanca+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-cvgameroom-2016-201-107

He chose to be black, but on the email that I received there was no text or a link to the game to indicate that he had chosen black and that it was my turn to play.

I went to my CV games and found the link to the game there, showing that it was my turn.

When I tried to play my first move: P e2-e4 I got the error below:

lastmovenum = ; movenum = 0

WARNING: As a safety precaution, you cannot move and take back a move at the same time.

If you mean to take back a move, do that before you move. This will let you see the board accurately when you do move.

If you did not mean to take back a move, set the drop-down box with the history of your moves to the last move made.

Can you please check the code, it appears to have a couple of bugs?

Thanks.

Jose

Thanks Fergus.

Yes, I was able to play my first move. Thanks.

How about the email that we receive when a challenge is accepted? Can it include the link to the game?

Thanks Fergus.

Cheers!

Fergus,

I use yahoo mail.

I can see that there is a text attachment to the emailcalled: TEXT.txt, but I can't open it or download it.

Cheers,

Jose

Fergus,

Update. I forwarded you the mail I received, and copied my gmail account.

I was able to open the attachment in the forwarded message (but not the original). Below are the contents of the attached text file:

I don't understand why am I getting the text as an attachement intead of just plain text.

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