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Crouching Stepper, Hidden Rider. Xiang Qi pieces' moves lengthen and shorten with location. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

George Duke wrote on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 06:03 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

12.February.2011 the 43rd day generates cv#43, C.S.H.R, never commented, never looked at. Generally, ignore Gilman's intro at first and go to piece-types. But on the way, notice here there are four colours not two, and 10x9 is xiangqi-size. All the pieces are ''capturable'' except the General. Pieces start off as Xiangqi pieces, and their move changes when they change to the second type of ''block.'' There are only two kinds of blocks. Each block is just a natural enough 2x3 of six squares. 90 divided by 6 is 15, and there happen to be 8 yellow-green 6-squares and 7 violet-purple 6-squares. To stress the concept cv, simply a piece is either in a yellow-green command area or else a violet-purple command area, which may or may not change after each time it moves. For example, the Rook in the corner is full-strength where he starts; whenever he should be moving later from violet-purple, he is only a Wazir. Thus Rook might go back and forth to Wazir, or instead might stay Rook so long as still within a yellow-green subset of squares. There are comparable switches or flips back and forth for each starting piece-type according to whether inside a violet-purple or yellow-green. (Later Baseball chess nonants, each 3x3 on 9x9 board, are a similar concept.)

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2022 11:42 AM UTC:

This seems a very drawish variant. Mainly because Pawns are almost completely useless; they cannot attack the cental file in the General's block, so a General can safely stay there even in an end-game against 5 Pawns. And to make it worse, stalemate is not even a win. So most pieces are not able to defeat a bare King. That the Palace is 4 ranks deep also doesn't help; it means that a piece that only can threaten one square on the central file cannot bring the General in zugzwang to force it away from that file.

I would recommend giving the Pawns always a full Wazir move inside the General's block, or at least for capturing. And of course score stalemate as a win.

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2022 12:01 PM UTC:

That should be fixed now. When I switched member submissions and revisions to using Format, I neglected to modify database-funcs.php to recognize Format as a column in the MemberSubmissions and Revisions tables. I have now corrected this omission. So, what was going on was a database security precaution that hadn't been updated with new information about changes to the database.

Well, it is NOT. In this article the last paragraph of the Introduction and Rules sections disappeared when I saved it after editing the Setup section. Fortunately the edit form with the original text could still be recalled through the browser back button, and I have appended </p> tags to those sections now, and saved again, to repair the damage.

Only heaven knows how much damage was done to the few dozen articles that I have been editing this way, the past two weeks. I only tested my edits by ascertaining the setup section displayed properly with JavaScript on and off; I never payed any attention to other sections. I only noticed it in the Centaur Chess article because there was so little text there that the entire article except my modification disappeared, section headers and all.

Of course older articles that are not stored in the database, which I edited through WinSCP would not have suffered any damage. But I estimate that this was only about half of my edits.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2022 05:44 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 12:01 PM:

Well, it is NOT.

I just ran some tests with a test page, and my updates were saved whether I updated it as the author or as an editor. So, please run some tests and let me know the specifics if anything isn't working right.

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2022 06:12 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 05:44 PM:

I log on, open the page of the article to which this is a comment, and click the link 'edit contents' at the bottom. The last sentence in the Rules section is "As in Xiang Qi ...". It is followed by a line with </p> (which I added for repairs). Delete that </p>, and press the 'send' button. Click the link 'View Submission' on the page that appears. The article now no longer contains the sentence "As in Xiang Qi ...". Click again 'edit contents'. The sentence is no longer in the Rules text area of the submisison form.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Dec 4, 2022 02:31 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Dec 3 06:12 PM:

I was able to replicate what you described. It's an unusual bug, and I will look into it tomorrow. In the meantime, I added the ability to reinstate a previous revision.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Dec 4, 2022 05:36 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Dec 3 06:12 PM:

The bug was in the trim_lines() function. I corrected it and another bug to make sure it doesn't make any changes except the removal of whitespace at the beginnings of lines.

Lev Grigoriev wrote on Wed, Feb 21, 2024 11:46 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Like Half-Kyoto Chess. Remarkable.

Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Feb 21, 2024 03:14 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 11:46 AM:

If nothing else, the title is priceless. :)

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