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I don't know if it is really useful to draw attention on that game, given my really poor playing and my terrible errors... but the playing level was OK in the beginning.

Greg:

I have been testing your preset and find it 100% OK, everything is working nice, but I would like to ask you a special favor: change its appearance by cloning the preset that I'm currently using whose URL is

 https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Symmetric+Chess&settings=default 

and its appearance is

You  know, it's something very simple: copy the code from your preset and paste it on the mine; then edit the clone with your userID and the settings name you like.

Note that in the Pre-Game box there is a line of code saying:

remind Watch Symmetric Chess games at www.youtube.com/channel/UCGEF6o8z5oW-OZlaat-Lqkg;

I use it to advertise my Youtube channel as a mean of attracting players.

The underlying reason to change the appearance is that blue pieces stand out better on an orange background than on a brown one; the same applies to the lines used to highlight the squares of origin and destination of the moves.

This is evident by comparing a whole sequence of movements.

Video with cream/brown background. 

Video with cream/orange background.  

Thank you very much for your support! 

I have just updated this page by adding a link to the preset programmed by Greg Strong. So, from now on I start using it.

Thanks Greg!

I'm reporting that the following log is broken:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Symmetric+Chess&log=sissa-cvgameroom-2020-188-665

When trying to access it, one gets this message: 

A King may not castle after it moves. Use your browser's BACK button to go back to the previous page, then reload if necessary.

If this is your settings file, you may edit it at https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Symmetric+Chess&settings=rules&submit=Edit

@Fergus: Could you, please, take a look at it to try to figure out the cause? I know from email alerts that the last move was from my opponent (wdtr2) 10.Nb1-c3. The settings file was edited by Greg but I don't think he made any changes to the code that might have affected the log.

When I changed subroutines to use my variables instead of local variables for arguments, that broke the code in this game. I switched it back, and now it works again.

OK, thanks!

@ Greg (and Carlos):

Just a couple of fairly minor points about the preset as it stands right now (in case any desire to improve preset): in the following game log on my second last turn I had to manually type in promotion (to queen - preset did not ask, instead some sort of a loop was entered). Then on my last turn I reduced the position to bare kings - the preset did not declare the game was a draw at that point:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Symmetric+Chess&log=alienum-cvgameroom-2022-179-249