Comments by j_carrillo_vii

Not true.

For instance, in Chess3 if the Rook is located on 1A1 it can move to: 1A2, 1A3, 1A4, 1A5, 1A6, 1A7, 1A8, 1B1, 1C1, 1D1, 1E1, 1F1, 1G1, 1H1, 2A1, 3A1. 

In Millenium 3D Chess, a Rook at 1A1 can additionally move to 2A2, 3A3, 2B1 and 3C1.

The Millenium 3D Queen also has the same additional mobility accross levels as the Millenium 3D Rook.

In Chess3 a Pawn on 1B2 can move to: 1B3, 1B4, 2B2 or 3B2 on his first move.

In Millenium 3D Chess, a Pawn at 1B2 can additionally move to 2B3 or 3B4.

Promotion rules in Chess3 are not clear.

Chess3 doesn't make any mention about Castling or En Passant in the rules, Millenium 3D does.

Full rules for Millenium 3D Chess are at:
http://webspace.webring.com/people/pm/millennium3dchess/millennium_3d_chess.pdf

Can one of the admins update the link on this page to:

http://webspace.webring.com/people/pm/millennium3dchess/

The geocities link is broken.

Fergus,

When reviewing completed games, after pressing the View button, the next move is no longer automatically filled in in the text box, so that if one pressed the View button repeatedly the game would progress a move at a time.

Now we have to locate the next move within the drop down each time which makes reviewing games very painful.

Agree with H.G.

Castling makes both positions different, and no symmetrical.

For instance, g-castling (O-O):

In 'B B R K R N N Q' g-castling is accomplished by the King jumping 3 squares, and the Rook moving once.

In 'Q N N R K R B B' g-castling is accomplished by just having the King jump over the f-rook, while the rook stays on the same spot.

Also, b-castling in one of the positions is not equivalent to g-castling on the other.

There is no symmetry because of castling.

Just got in the mail today a set of Dragon Chess I purchased on ebay.

Not too impressed with the 3-squares movement of the Dragon...

But a nice looking set to have for playing variants (I'll most likely redefine the movement of the Dragon).

My 9 year old son loved the look of the set, specially the Dragons.

I saw these Renaissance pieces years ago (never owned this type of set) when I was in university.

What I paid for the Dragon Chess set was money well spent, and it is in brand new condition.

Thanks for the questions Nick.

I updated the page to address all your concerns.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Link with instructions to Hiashatar.

http://history.chess.free.fr/mongeng.htm

The Guard's on Korean Chess don't move like Wazirs. They can also move diagonally on the diagonals in the palace.

The King in Xiangi does move like a Wazir, and Chinese Chess is another historical old variant.

Here is a preset for Schachdame that doesn't enforce any rules, but allows the game to be played.

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DSchachdame%26settings%3Ddefault

This is an interesting twisting rule that can be applied to any variant.

Well done Tony!

Cool!

Now we also have the Ajax Xiangqi King (or General) (an Ajax Wazir) to add to the royal repertoire! ;-)

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSajaxxiangqi

Thanks Antoine.

Cheers,
Jose

3 little queens!

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Makruk+%28Thai+chess%29&log=j_carrillo_vii-cvgameroom-2009-263-098

Charles,

Not sure I followed you there.

The game we are playing is with all pieces gaining their Ajax moves.

The King, Guard and Elephant definitely have specific improvements over their Chinese Chess counterparts related to the Palace and River.

But the other pieces: Rook, Cannon and Knight (Horse) all also get Ajax moves.

Rooks and Cannons have a 1-step non-capturing diagonal move.

The Knight (like the Elephant) get a 1-step non-capturing move in every direction (orthogonal or diagonal).

Maybe I misunderstood your comment...

I agree about the confusion regarding the pawns. Probably a copy and paste of rules from the Modern Shatranj page, as not even the pieces in the diagram match the ones in the game in the tournament.

But in the first paragraph it does say that the game uses modern pawn rules (= 2 squares initial move + en passant).

Regarding the Elephant, I wouldn't call it a 'Bishop' like piece that can jump. It's actually an Alfil (that jumps) that can also play like a Ferz.

>> the sniper named fusilier (moves Wazir, captures Ferz)

Cool!

Moves like an Ajax Ferz...

Fusilier! Like the sound of that.

Thanks Antoine.

Can you also add the Guard (Man or Commoner) to the Alfaerie for Ajax piece set?

'G' => 'alfaerie/wguard.gif', 'g' => 'alfaerie/bguard.gif',

- - -

Below is the full new Ajax Piece Set definition:


http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/;

$pieces = array(
'K' => 'alfaerie/wking.gif', 'k' => 'alfaerie/bking.gif',
'Q' => 'alfaerie/wqueen.gif', 'q' => 'alfaerie/bqueen.gif',
'B' => 'alfaerie/wpromotedbishop.gif', 'b' => 'alfaerie/bpromotedbishop.gif',
'M' => 'alfaeriemisc/lavallee/wsissa2.gif', 'm' =>
'alfaeriemisc/lavallee/bsissa2.gif',
'N' => 'alfaeriemisc/bagleyjones/wknightzzstar.gif', 'n' =>
'alfaeriemisc/bagleyjones/bknightzzstar.gif',
'P' => 'alfaerie/wpawn.gif', 'p' => 'alfaerie/bpawn.gif',
'R' => 'alfaerie/wpromotedrook.gif', 'r' => 'alfaerie/bpromotedrook.gif',
'F' => 'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/wajaxfalcon.gif', 'f' =>
'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/bajaxfalcon.gif',
'A' => 'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/wajax-archbishop2.gif', 'a' =>
'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/bajax-archbishop2.gif',
'C' => 'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/wajax-chancellor2.gif', 'c' =>
'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/bajax-chancellor2.gif',
'G' => 'alfaerie/wguard.gif', 'g' => 'alfaerie/bguard.gif',
'E' => 'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/wajaxelephant.gif', 'e' =>
'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/bajaxelephant.gif',
'S' => 'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/wajaxsilverelephant.gif', 's' =>
'alfaeriemisc/carrillo/bajaxsilverelephant.gif'
);

?>

Thanks Fergus.

Everything is back to normal.

Thanks Carlos!

I'm honored to see my Ajax Chessmen migrating into other inventors variants.

Sure I accept your challenge for Ajax Bigamous Chess. Send me an invite.

My preference would be with Ministers, but Ajax Bigamous Chess is your variant, so I will play it according to your rules.

You can easily make a Game Courier preset for Ajax Bigamous Chess that enforces game rules using the code from my Ajax Orthodox Chess preset.

Let me know if you need any help building the Game Courier preset.

Fergus,

Perhaps you can put links on the list of games for the tournament to the individual games' rules pages.

Happy new year Nick!

10 hours to go here in Ajax (Canada).

Jose

Fergus,

When is the start of the tournament?

Feliz Navidad! to everyone...

How about 5 drop rounds altogether?

1st round drops: Player's 5th rank
2nd round drops: Player's 4th rank
3rd round drops: Player's 3th rank
4th round drops: Player's 2nd rank
5th round drops: Player's 1st rank

In each round a player is allowed to drop up to 10 pieces.

The preset for Ajax Orthodox Chess is complete and enforces all the rules:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DAjax+Orthodox+Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie1

Oops! Sorry Nick!

I was experimenting with the rules in the other preset, the one we are currently playing with. I fixed it back.

The Ajax Orthodox Chess Game Courier preset now enforces all the rules:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DAjax+Orthodox+Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie1

This preset for Ajax Orthodox Chess is almost complete:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DAjax+Orthodox+Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie1

It enforces all the Ajax movement rules, allows the dropping of Ajax Ministers, castling, en passant, etc.

The only thing that it can't do is tell that the King is in check when attacked by the Ajax Minister.

Fergus (or anyone else), can you please help me fix this final issue?

Thanks.

Fergus,

I sent you an email with the include file for Ajax Orthodox Chess. Can you please upload it so that I can start testing the preset?

Thanks.

Fergus,

Run it! Call it something else if you want!

I share your same values on adding novelty and variety to Chess.

How many variants did you have so far for Next Chess?

Just 3? Lets have a firendly Trio tournament. 

3 players, 3 variants, 2 games per variant.

Don't throw away the idea and excitement away just because one person
wanted to make something different out of your tourney.

Fergus,

Did you have a chance to look at what's wrong with this game?

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-josesanfer-2004-151-422

Can you change the status of this game to finished?

Thanks.

I retract my initial comment regarding the lack of usefullness of the river in this game.

I've played a few games on Zillions and now see the tactical need of preventing pawns to capture sideways before crossing the river.

I'm still not fully convinced though of the Pawns' diagonal capturing ability after crossing the river.

Thanks David.

Both pieces surely meet the same principle of 'non-capturing adopted steps' in Ajax Chess.

I really like the new Mandarin in this game!

Kudos to Zheng Lei for this Mandarin invention!

What's the use of the river then?

Just to define the point where the pawns get their aditional moves?

If this is the case, this game could have been even better without the River altogether, allowing the Pawns their full range of moves from the start.

I downloaded the Zillions file.

So pawns here (once they cross the river) can also move diagonally forward (in addition to sideways).

You should add this fact (pawn's diagonal forward move) to the exceptions list in the rules page.

I just fixed the log to add the constant.

The initial position is: RKRNBBQN

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-josesanfer-2004-151-422

Inside of the game itself it recognizes the checkmate and that white won.

But this game is still showing in my list of games as an active game, and I can't delete it, as I get the error that I'm not allowed to delete the log.

Thanks.

Can the Elephants cross the River?

Alternately Fergus, can you change the status of this game to Finished?

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-josesanfer-2004-151-422

Sounds like an interesting game...

I don't speak chinese, so the only characters that I recognize are the ones from chinese chess.

Can you identify by name the other new (for me) characters on the rules?

I'm interested in this new (for me) Bomb piece.

You said that when a Bomb captures pieces except other Bomb, Bomb is removed from the board. Does this mean that a Bomb can not attack another Bomb? or that only the captured Bomb is removed from the board?

Fergus,

Can you delete this one too?
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-josesanfer-2004-151-422

I checkmated my opponent a few years ago, yet the game never changed status to completed, and still shows in my active game list.

I get the same error that Jeremy got below about not having permission to delete it

Thanks.

Jose

Thanks Fergus!!!

The change of current constant worked perfectly!

Good thing... because I had placed one of the pieces in the wrong place, so my initial constant was wrong anyway. :-)

Modern Random Chess log fixed:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Modern+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-sissa-2008-125-050

Mine went away too.

I change the board pieces and the board type, and suddenly it started working.

Weird...

Thanks Fergus.

Are you going to change the program so that it can actually update the constants even if they already exist?

There are many logs to go and we (humans) are bound to make mistakes here and there... :-)

What is the value of the constant right now?

The value I want it to have is: RKBNNQBRA

which is the position for White. The Pre-code logic is set to copy and revert the order of the Black pieces based on the White position.

Or is it actually working backwards? And what I actually set was the Black position and the logic reverted the position for White?

Can you delete the constant?

paper Shogi set:
http://www.hollandnumerics.demon.co.uk/pdf/SHOGI_SET.PDF

Fergus,

I'm playing my first ever Shogi game.

When it's my turn, the pieces are displayed off the center of the squares, shifted half way up, on the middle of the lines above their squares.

When I look at the link for the game to see it (not when it's my turn) the pieces are perfectly in the middle.

My opponent says that he is seeing everything fine.

Any ideas what is wrong?

Jose

Fergus,

Can you help me fix the Modern Random Chess preset?

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DModern+Random+Chess%26settings%3DMRC

I did the changes (I think) as per your FRC sample, but it's still not working.

I'm going to adopt the algebraic notation below for your Bunker Leap in my variants:

Kx>>yy

Where x is the departure square for the King and yy the destination square of the Bunker Leap (b1, g1, b8, g8)

Kd>>g1 = King leaps from d(1) square to g1.

[Update]

Fergus,

I fixed the Pre-game in the Modern Random Chess preset as per your FRC sample, and I'm using this URL:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Modern+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-sissa-2008-125-050&constants_firstrank=RKBNNQBRA&settings=MRC&userid=j_carrillo_vii&password=????????&submit=Fix

Even though it tells me it's fixed, I try the link to the game, and it still doesn't work.

= = =

ILLEGAL: M h1-g3 on turn 14:There was no M on h1. The piece on h1 is a R.Go back and try again.

Nice! The Bunker Leap is simple, yet efficient!

I like it!

Do you have any special notation to denote this leap?

i.e. Kd>>g1 or something like that?

I will adapt this rule to my Contemporary Random Chess game, which already features symmetrical castling with the King ending on the b & g squares.

Well done Charles!

Carlos,

Just played out the moves on a blank board (only with pawns), so trial an error, and got the right board positions.

I love random positions, so I was the one player punished the most...

No big deal... At least I'm going to get the links restored! ;-)

Great Fergus!

Not sure I understand how to use them to store initial random positions.

Can you please give us an example?

Thanks Fergus.

Here we go:

Fischer Random Chess:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=carlos-j_carrillo_vii-2004-130-156
BNQRNBKR - bnqrnbkr

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=fergus-j_carrillo_vii-2004-138-730
RQNBBNKR - rqnbbnkr

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-fergus-2004-138-495
RQNKNRBB - rqnknrbb

Contemporary Random Chess:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Contemporary+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-deep_thinker-2008-146-176
NRNQBKRB - brkbqnrn

Modern Random Chess:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Modern+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-sissa-2008-125-050
RKBNNQBRA // arbqnnbkr

Thanks Antoine.

Sorry, you made the Black Ajax Falcon invisible, but not the White one.

The White Ajax Falcon shows a gray background when used:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DAjax+Wars+Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie

Can you fix it? Thanks.

That makes sense.

I take it the initial position setup was not originally saved as part of the log, nor was the seed.

Is this the case still? or just for the older logs?

Is there any way to recover these old logs?

If you email me the log moves, I can attemp to reverse recover the initial positions.