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Thank you

I caught a video on your World of Chess book last night, and at the end, Rick Knowlton mentioned that it was available as an ebook on Google Play Books. When I checked out the sample on my Likebook Mars, though, the text was too small to comfortably read, and when I resized it, the text would not reflow like it does in a normal ebook. So, the only way to get larger text was to make the whole page larger than my screen. Do you have any plans for making your book available as a regular ebook with reflowable text?

Another photograph of the Metamachy set, 3D printed from custom designs.

These pieces are freely available in .stl format, as well as 23 other types (presented in the page for Bigorra), on Thingiverse.

Very Cool!

Geat designs. Fit very well with Staunton.

These do indeed look fantastic.

I've got your icon collection right here -- at least, until they're posted in place of your old ones. :)

Thank you Bob, that's nice from you. However, that makes them available mainly for me, who have them already of course, as they are mine.

I would like an editor to put these graphics in the folder which bears my name!

I have been asking this regularly from times to times, I hope one day someone will care.

Thanks again anyway.

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I unzipped the file JLCChess.zip to /graphics.dir/cazaux/, and you will find your images in

https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/cazaux/JLCChess/

However, there are two issues. First, your file names do not match the names of the files we already have of your images. Game Courier mainly uses pieces in the cazaux/shako directory, which have mixed case names, and all your new files have lowercase names. So, your new images cannot be used as a drop-in replacement for the ones we already have. Second, these are all .bmp images, which is fine for Zillions-of-Games, but on the web, we normally use .gif. .png, or .svg images.

Thank you Fergus for this, I'm glad of this replacement.

I didn't expect those problems, I'm sorry. Is there a way to find all pages or GC that use the "old Cazaux"?

For example, the Shako GC is available with 2 other graphics options, so it won't be a problem if the 3rd one with "old Cazaux" is simply removed.

Concerning the format, indeed I can do a batch conversion from .bmp to .gif or .png and send or upload another zip. If I do that, shall I remove the green background? Just let me know.

Last question, I could prepare another page to present/show all graphics like this old one:

https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/cazaux/catalog.html

which is accessible from:

https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/index.html

Would it be useful?

If I do that, shall I remove the green background?

No, leave it green, but also make it the transparent color.

Yes, a page presenting your graphics would be useful.

My design of ungulate pieces. Compared with size.

My design of Kirin and Phoenix

The cockscomb makes the Phoenix look a lot like a chicken. A Phoenix is not supposed to have that, is it? All images I googled for do show a lot of fluffy feathers at the back of the neck, and you did that very well. As for the beak: most images I found have the beak of a bird of prey.

The Kirin looks a bit too messy for my taste. I suppose the wild protrusions represent flames. But it is very hard to create the impression of flames in a static object. If I were to make a Kirin I would use a dragon's head (up-curving snout) with antlers.

Were you able to transfer these from STL to Jocly??? They look great!

@HG: On the Phoenix you missed an important point. You know that this piece is taken from chu shogi. There what has been translated "Phoenix" is more the Fenghuang (Hoo). And this one is like that, more rooster than eagle. Anyway, I'm thinking to modify it a little bit.

For both this piece and the Kirin (Qilin), I have taken models from Chinese-style works.

All my 3D designs in one screenshot, with Blenders.

Some pieces are unpublished yet, the cerberus for example. Is it for personnal use?

The Cerberus with 3 dog's heads was a temptative to represent the Reaper, i.e. the "triple barrel" Rook+Gryphon.

I was thinking of it for giant CVs. As well as some other compound monsters, an Hydra (3 snake's heads for the Harvester Bishop+Rhinoceros), a Simurgh (Bishop+Gryphon), an Indrik (Rook+Rhinoceros), a Godzilla (or T-Rex, Gryphon+Rhinoceros).

For the moment, I put them aside. They are really very powerful, a bit too much.

May someone tell me where a QAD is used (apart from my own Patchanka and recent Kevin's Compound chess)?

I know that someone commented about it recently (was it HG?), but I can't find that information again. I need it. Many thanks

Doing a bit of a search, I did find it as the Queen in Big Battle (thanks to Who is Who on Eight by Eight, which calls it OverQueen). I don't know if it's what you're thinking of, though.

H.G. had mentioned Superchess