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@Fergus: my friend Léopold de Labrousse, author of Devingt Chess, is trying to join you by e-mail but he is getting no answer. Actually, I had advised him to contact you for his problem, which is blocking him for more than 1 year (!) and I am not able to help him.

When he tried to connect he's getting this: "Cannot continue, because no row in the Person table could be identified".

Apparently there is a problem with his name ID.

As he was (1 year ago) facing a problem forbidding the connection, he tried to erase his account "Léopold De Labrousse", create another "Léopold Devingt", well, a very confusing situation and at the end, nothing works.

Maybe a source of error is the "é", e with accute accent, in his first name, Léopold. Or his last name which has a blank separation "De Labrousse".

I don't know.

Now, it is impossible to delete his account, despite his page shows the invite to do it, probably because he once played a game on Game Courrier.

Are you able to find a solution? His mail is leopold212@hotmail.fr

Thank you for him, he is eager to join us for our activities.

I have a code to create Piece in Piececlopedia. I’ve taken your template and written my text.

Thanks for pointing that out. Apparently, no one checked the email for the past year, and Yahoo erased the inbox and made the account inactive. Using one of my verified email accounts, I got back into the account and changed the password. Editors who will make a commitment to checking this email account can ask me for the new password by email.

The Yahoo address doesn't work; anything sent to it bounces.

Super.  Fergus, thank you so much for adding the copper pieces to your symbolic set.  :)  Now I have to make the time to do the coding.  I'm looking forward to using the new copper pieces.

To keep with the theme already established for my Symbolic Shogi pieces, I added some Copper General pieces using the alchemical symbol for copper. I don't think it is necessary to use color to distinguish Shogi pieces on opposite sides, and with this set, it could confuse things, because it already uses color to distinguish promoted pieces from unpromoted pieces.

I didn't get the email. Try using the address found here: who/Editors.

I made a few changes to the symbolic set of shogi.  I added a copper general, and tweaked the "flip" so the base color is pink.  I feel it might be easier to a new player of shogi to identify enemy vs friends (pieces).  I made a zip file and sent it via email to webmaster at chessvariants.com (I think).  Is this the correct way to get a new chess set added to chess variants?

Have you received my email submission for a variant? I use a Yahoo address, so I was thinking that it may have ended up in your spam folder.

I really need the rules to strato chess.  Please Help!

George, you can still edit and comment on your submissions before they are "unhidden" by an editor.  (From the menu under your name you can find a link to your unreviewed submissions, and anyone with the url can get to it.)  I haven't cleared that submission yet because (as I said in a comment there) it seems too much like your other Wizard of Oz variants, and I think it would be better suited as a comment on one of those games.

(I think you receive an email when someone comments on your game, correct?  Does that still go through if the game is still hidden?)

when it gets posted. That is, to show it as unique CV, there is paragraph describing specific position having

about ten possible moves off the Road (feature of the game) by one Knight.

Hi Zied,

I have given your account Contributor status, so you should now be able to submit your game through the site's forms.

(We normally require that a person's first submission be sent through the general email contact; I've found your game through your Person Information page and so have foregone this requirement.)

Hi
I'm unable to add my own chess variant (Musketeer Chess)

How can i proceed?

Best regards
Zied

musketeerchess@gmail.com

Thanks for your help Fergus.

Johnny, I have deleted both of your accounts so that there will be no conflict when you try to register with your OpenID. For security purposes, there are now safeguards in place to prevent new members from using email addresses already used by other members. When you sign up with an OpenID, it will use the verified email address associated with your OpenID. That is why you cannot edit your email address when signing up with your Facebook account.

If you are no longer using the email address you used to sign up for Facebook, I would recommend first going to Facebook and changing the email address you use with Facebook. Go to Account Setting/Email on Facebook, then add another email address to your Facebook account. Facebook will send you an email to verify that the new email address is yours. Once the new email address shows up in your Facebook account, change it to your Primary Email. Then delete your old address. Once you have changed your address on Facebook, come back here and use your Facebook account to sign up here.

Also tried using my Facebook OpenID to get an account like you suggested. In the data on the right side of the right side of the registration screen, the email entry is fixed (a, different, older, email I used to register my facebook). However when I attempt to register I get the error message "The email address xxxx@xxxx.xxx is already connected to another account." It is indeed connected to another account, the OpenID account its meant to be letting me register with!

Fergus,

Password is indeed in lower case. When I enter the temp password (the more recent johnnyluken account) I always receive the error message; "The temporary password you entered does not match the one you were emailed. Please go back and try again."

Its the same whether I paste or enter it in manually...

If you're having a problem entering the temp password, I would recommend copying and pasting it. It should be in lowercase already. So the problem I described earlier would not be the problem for you. But if you enter it by hand, you might enter an O where a 0 should be or an l where a 1 should be. Note that the temp password is a lowercase hexadecimal number consisting only of digits and the letters a through f.

There was a bug in the code for email registration. We used to use case insensitive passwords, but I changed the code to use case sensitive passwords. For the email registration script, the conversion was incomplete. It was still converting passwords to lowercase, which it should no longer do. So here is what might have happened. You chose a mixed case or upper case password, and when you entered it, it didn't accept it, because it had been converted into a lowercase password, and passwords are now case-sensitive.

If you check the email it sent you, you should find your password all in lowercase. Enter this as your password instead of what you originally gave as your password, and you should be able to log in. Checking the database, I see you already have two accounts with us: johnnyluken and jhildluke.

In case this does not work, there is also a script for changing your password.

First, you failed the CAPTCHA on David's address. What you took to be a hyphen is an underscore. Second, you should contact me, not him, about this. Third, this is the same day you posted your message here, and I have still not had breakfast yet. FYI, all the active editors for this site are on Eastern Standard Time and were probably all asleep when you posted.

If something is not working for you, contact me with full details on what you are doing to sign up. I need to know which form on which page you are using to sign up with. Since you can sign in with your Facebook account, I recommend using the form on the right side of the login/login.php page while you are already signed into this site through Facebook.

Have had a lot of difficulty with this site; tried to register as Johnny Luken, but my temp password was rejected as I was told the password was incorrectly entered, which on multiple occasions it wasn't.

Have emailed chessvariants.org but to no response. On the tech support link, you're given an email to enter, which is meant to take you to a new link. Why don't you just give me a an actual address to contact like any normal website?! It appears to be david-cvp@yahoo.com, yet entering this does nothing, and when my email is bounced back to me when I attempt this address. Is this yet another glitch on your website?

I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed by how difficult you seem to make it for new people to register, or even contact people on this site, let alone submitting new content and contributing to it.


Seems to you are either being deliberately obscure to discourage new membership and input, and maintain a core "clique", or maybe you just don't know how to make a accessible user friendly website...

I have emailed a screenshot for you now.
Thanks, wOl.

Can you provide a screenshot and more details? Since I have Windows XP, I cannot use IE9 and so cannot check this out for myself.

Hey,
Using IE9 I constantly get an extremely annoying hovering menu bar that sits in the top left of each page on the site and does not appear to be removable or minimisable. I believe that it is supposed to activate only when I hover over the CVP logo in the top left, but on many pages it is jsut permanent. This is fine on most pages, though irritating, but on this page it prevents me being able to read or select the top few menu items.
Thanks, wOl.

Are you the boy's father? Your name matches his father's name.

Great contribution to chess:By a disabled  kid suffering from fatal disease:Awesome kid , who is pride of India , motivates world...World chess fraternity should appreciate his efforts

Youngest disabled in the world to get patent despite suffering from fatal disease by his invention of circular chess for 2,3,6 players
Covered by National/International media 
Imagine a kid of 9.5 years on wheel chair and suffering from deadly disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy ad he becomes the youngest patent holder in India and youngest disabled patent holder of world. He inspires and motivates everyone and gives a great message of motivation to achieve despite hardship. Indian media print / visual covered him at national level. To know more about him is very simple. Just type Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati on google search and 1800 articles/news/blogs/photos will be in front of you. His story should be known to every one as it motivates every one. He is a mile stone in the disabled world after Stephen hawkins and Wilma rudoph. Media of India quoted him as Wonder kid , Genius , Mini stephen hawkins. It all happened as he invented circular chess for 2,3,4,6 players and got patent in India. He has given a great message that even if disease can not be cured it can be defeated. His ideal person is stephen hawkins for two reasons. Firstly he says ":Great stephen hawkins has given rare achievement to world , despite hardship and secondly he aspire to become scientist. Salute the great kid and true wonderkid and mini stephen hawkins in true sense. Covering him in right spirit will be a great motivation and inspiration through out the world. You can also find his news/videos on my wall on facebook. My wall name: Sarower Singh Bhati . To contact me. Mobile number 9314509341/India. or landline is 0091/141/4030236. My address: Director Kings education Flat number 302, D-238 ,Shri gopalam apartment, bihari marg ,behind collectorate ,banipark Jaipur Rajasthan India

Dear Editor,

I found an image of a Chinese chess variant
(http://www.hudong.com/versionview/idl,pAUWBxBWVKVEd2U,kVZZA) that I don't
recognize and wonder if you know what one it is.  I have searched on your
website but have found nothing similar.

From what I can see, the board has been lengthened by two ranks on each
side of the river, the extended range of the elephant inscribed on the
board, and the governor used for both sides as the royal piece in the
fortress; the generals (two per side) are positioned for a new function, it
seems, outside the fortress.

Thanks in advance for your help.

He can capture one of your pieces only if that remove check.

I found your comments very, uh -- interesting and sobering, and yet in my heart I believe I have a great idea; unfortunately no funding. I wont say much more but only ask that you look at what I have invented and patented, your most critical opinion would be most appriciated.

ken@3dchesstower.com  email
www.3dchesstower.com  web site

i hate it

Thanks Joe. I am just starting to get involved with people who invent games. Its a tough business from what I've seen and it doesn't seem that rewarding [ money wise ]. The biggest plus in my opinion is the inventors. Your quality and spark are a lighthouse in the fog. 
I am still interested in talking to Jeff and Mark from Zillions. Would you know how to contact them. I tried contacting them at the site but my email came back as failed.
You mentioned that there are some matters that would not be appropriate on this forum. My email is tonyo@ludusline.com. Please feel free to contact me at that address. Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks again for your help.

Hi, Tony:

Being involved in trying to get a small board game company off the ground myself, and just beginning to learn my way around the very bottom of the NY metro area game industry, I have to tell you I know that most efforts fail, and in particular, chess variants are a great way to fill your garage or basement with unsold merchandise. It is extremely difficult to make money with a chess variant. I've been involved with IAGO [Int'l Abstract Game Org] for a few years now, and have met or dealt with several people who had 'the next chess'. [None regulars on this site.] None of them have, or we'd know about it. 

Okay, that's the disclaimer, and it's all true. Please look into the industry before you invest. Given all that, I started by saying I am doing a small boardgame company, and have found out a few things. Yes, the hard way, or a hard way, certainly, in every case. I will lay out a few things for anyone who is interested, then ask you to email me, as anything more than I will say generally here would be outside the scope of this website. 

When you are making a board game, for an idea of cost, you need to be guided by the purpose of the board game(s) you are actually making. Are you prototyping, creating a small number for playtesting and advertising, or going whole hog, and making 5-10,000 games or more? And why are you doing it? What is your budget? Let me put that another way: how much can you afford to lose on this? Expect to lose [except secretly] and fight to win. They say determination is important. 

Let's look at those numbers of games another way. How will you manage to get all of those games sold/used? First, build the prototype. This you should do yourself, and the very first attempt should be paper and pencil. [This does include things like colored pens and stickers and game bits just lying around, unused, suffocating in their boxes...] It just needs to be good enough to show your buddy or brother or cousin, and get them to play some to test the concept. If they don't sink it, draw up around 3 of the very best but very minimalist boards you can, to the exact size you would want 10,000 of them done professionally. [This is often determined by packaging constraints.] Then put together about 5 sets of the best-looking pieces you can, and start playtesting in earnest. 

If initial playtesting goes very well, your next step might be to produce 25 or so semi-professional to professional-grade good-looking games. Get them out to game groups to play and get comments. Do demos and leave a game with contact info and questionnaires. Follow up within a month. Run contests/tournaments at places like cons and game stores or wherever your target audiences hang out. This gets all the bugs worked out and gives you some idea of how the public likes it. 

Assuming things go well, you want to do a small to very small production run, say 100-1000 games. There are boutique companies you can use, but they are expensive. At that level, you might have to do it yourself, or pay/go into partnership with someone who already has a small game company. You become your own distribution system, trying to sell your games at conventions and to game stores, and it isn't at all easy. What you're doing at this level is trying to make a name for yourself and draw some attention from an established company... who will pick up your game and sell it far better than you could, and you'll still probably only make pennies per game. But that doesn't happen all that often. 

All the cheap Chinese companies want to do minimum runs. The minimum sizes I saw were 5000-20,000 games. This is a largish run. How will you distribute these games? The big toy companies have contracts with thousands of stores to show their items, so when they make something, it is already going nationwide in stores. With advertising. Don't do this. Go back to 100 games. Make and sell those. Then either quit, change your methods, or make and sell another 100 or more. Your key to volume sales is distribution network, and that means hooking up with someone bigger, realistically. The games you produce have to be good enough to help that happen.

Prices? For the initial prototypes, under $10-20 dollars - plus travel costs to show it off. The 25 decent games would be maybe $200 - a few hundred. The 100 pro-looking games might go $2000 - a few thou. This all depends on size and components, and quality of components. These are roughly my costs for things from 1 to 100. After that, the Chinese are a few tens of thousands. Again, it depends heavily on components and quality.

Hi Joe
I wish to have a chess variant built for phone apps and a website. I came across chessvariants by trying to find contact info for mark lefler and jeff mallett. You seem to well versed in the production of chess games and I am wondering if you could help with contacting these guys or could give me some advice with regards to getting a board version manufactured.

How fast anything is posted depends entirely on when an editor with the necessary skills can get to it. Whether or not it gets posted at all depends on the content. 

As for the first condition, being an editor is voluntary. There aren't many of us still active, and I'm effectively the maintenance staff. Email me at the address you see on my info page [click on my name at left] and I'll see what I can do to help you. 

As for the second condition, content is to be 'G' rated, adequately presented, somehow remotely connected to chess, and if a game design, cannot have been done before. 

That's a brief run-down. You should follow the site links for specific information. Lol, that, or ask my son, is what I do! Joe

If you are a registered user you can submit chess variants using that form. Why don't you try.
/Mats

M Winther, read this: 'This form allows any person that has previously
submitted material that has been published on these pages, to post their
own pages'.
So, i can't use this yet.

You must publish it yourself, using this form:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/membersubmission.php
/Mats

You could not checkmate your opponent while leaving your own king in check.

Hi Admins,

A corrections for the What's New Page:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/whatsnew.php

For the week ending May 14, 2008 there are two Game Courier Presets entries for Modern Random Chess.

The one that says Author Jose Carrillo, Inventor Gabriel Maura, is actually for Modern Chess (not Modern Random Chess). The other one is OK.

A request: for the informational page for MRC64, can you add the text description 'Modern Random Chess 64' next to the link? (just like it was done for the MRC64 Game Courier Preset entry).

Thanks.

Admins,

Can someone please update the Query page on 'M' items below:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?type=Any&startswithletter=M&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1

to include the Modern Random Chess Game Courier preset:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DModern+Random+Chess%26settings%3DMRC

Thanks.

Thanks David.

I did my first contributions, the Modern Random Chess variant:

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

and the new Bishop Adjustment Rule:

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

How does one become a Contributor to Chess Variants?

I have a new Bishop Adjustment Rule that I want to publish (next to Carlos Cetina's BCR rule), and I have 3 news variants that I've created that I also want to publish.

Great site but you shoud know that the piece you call Mao is actually Ma. 
Ma is the Chinese word for horse, not Mao which can mean cat, feather or
hair, rivet and thick or dense, depending on the tone.

We have linked to your nice site.

http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html

We hope you may link to our site.

If linked, please send mail to us, how to find it.

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Comment posted 2005: any thoughts since?

Dear Hans and colleagues

I was having a game of XiangChi with another member of our club and
dropped by to see what might be new on your site;
I'm so impressed with all the effort you have put in on the content and
quality of this and other games since I was last here.  Keep up the good
work!

I was also vastly impressed with the neat comments system.  Is that
something you've devised yourselves, or a package that you've found
somewhere?  I was just about to sit down with some colleagues here and
try
to implement something similar for our own website at work
(www.sheu.org.uk), but would prefer not to re-invent the wheel if I can
avoid it.  Is the PHP coding something you can point me to, or are
prepared to share?

Thanks very much


Dave Regis

david.regis@sheu.org.uk

May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and
your sacrifices be sound in all variations

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I would like to introduce you  wth a new chess variant and cannot!
here is the web site where you will find information : www.fortuit.fr
best regards to the whole team
Luc Queyrel : lqfortuit@orange.fr

you are on the wrong page, you should read here
http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/chess.html

Alison:  No.  The first capture ends the move.  Your question could also be asked of Queens, Bishops, and Rooks
 for non-diagonal (orthogonal) captures)... and even Kings.  In all cases, the single-capture ends the move.

My question is:

Can a pawn capture two pawns if they are in a subsequent diagonal position. For example if there are 2 white pawns in 2 diagonal spaces can they be captured in one move with the black pawn moving 2 diagonal spaces in one go?

very creative,about hexagonal chess,i am too creative i made a new chess in
which dinnasour will  play a part, as well as  ,i designe a unique karom.in
this regard pl help me from where we can patent?
piyushdadriwala
pkgdwala@rediffmail.com

The 50 move rule is a bit more than what was recently stated regarding pawn
movement.  The rule makes the game drawn, if

the last 50 consecutive moves have been made without the movement of any
pawn AND without the capture of any piece (or pawn).

Thus,when a piece is captured (or a pawn) the 50 move count must start all
over again.