Comments by Wyatt Van Dyke

So a while back I picked a fight with someone here, I think.

Sorry about that, I was young and dumb and looking for fights. I don't know if I'll do anything here other than lurk, but I still thought it was worth apologizing.

Jeffery T. Kubach said this in another subject that started to go off-topic:

"I do think they should have a "decathlon" tournament with rapid and blitz chess, then 8 of the most popular/worthwhile variants.  A round robin would be cool, but it'd take a while to cover all the variants."

It got me thinking: what if we had a CV tournament/event/whatever dedicated to promoting lesser-known Chess variants? Obviously, we'd need to include variants like Bughouse to reel in people who only know about the more popular ones. I think a lot of people who enjoy Chess would love to know more about Chess variants and play the more obscure ones.

What do you guys think?

Jeffery, I think you're on to something really, really cool which could potentially inject some life into the CV community. However, I think we're going off-topic, so I'm going to create a new subject.

I didn't know Game Courier was still being updated. My mistake. Though I am sort of tempted to blame it on it's obscurity relative to Tabletop Simulator...

I already know you're not a fan of TTS. I'm just wondering if anybody else on this site is a fan of TTS and is willing to make CVs or TTS versions of existing CVs in it.

That one suffered from both ineffective execution (making pieces intended for only one variant, and not the idea you were thinking of) and ineffective marketing (allcaps tends to make you sound like a crazy person). I'm sure it might have succeeded if the creator improved their writing (or maybe just hired a marketing guy) and thought of more than just promoting their own variant.

There's a comment that was submitted negative seconds ago. Since we know time travelers don't exist, what caused this bug?

I couldn't find a word for "pass between hills," but "mountain pass" is ÀikÇ’u (隘口). Xiang Aikou has a nice ring to it.

What happened to Supremo? I've read a few things a few years back about how it was in development, and I'm worried it might be the Half-Life 3 of chess variants.

It's appeared in Naruto, too. I don't know too much about it's involvement beyond Shikamaru Nara being really good at it.

Thanks for the thorough response, Dr. Duniho. For the record, I already knew about Game Courier and its features, and I think it's cool too.

I understand if you don't get Tabletop Simulator's unconventional approach to simulating tabletop games. It's less of a game simulator and more of a game set simulator. In chess and its variants, for example, if you're playing with a physical set, captured pieces are set to the side, and everybody is fine with that. The same goes here. Like in most game sets, the rules are left to the players instead of the code. Because of this, modest variants and house rules aren't as difficult to implement as in most software for traditional games. The one disadvantage of Tabletop Simulator in my eyes is that only live play is possible and correspondence play is out of the question. Still, if you like the rules being enforced by the game itself and having captured pieces disappear, I won't judge you. I like that too.

Thanks for the fix!