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Game Courier Chess Variant Problems. Solve Chess Variants Problems Composed with Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 02:17 AM UTC:

I have changed how Game Courier can be used for composing Chess Variant problems. It's now more sophisticated, and any problems published with it can be found on this page. It's time for some beta-testing. Try composing some problems and let me know if you have any problems.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 10:51 PM UTC:

To illustrate how easy it is, I have composed several mate-in-one problems from old games. Just find a game that ended in checkmate, go back a move, and click Compose. Then make sure the winning move is the only possible winning move. If any other moves could win, just adjust the position to prevent them from being winning moves. Then click Move, enter the solution, click Compose, fill in your userid and password, then click Publish.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sat, Feb 16, 2013 11:14 PM UTC:

You should add the option to change the icons used when displaying the problem. Also, sometimes it says the user input is banned.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2013 05:19 PM UTC:

I've added the ability to change the piece set when viewing a problem. I'll add more customization options later. I also plan to fix how moves are handled by the problem composer. The problem right now is that it is treating move input as though it is intended for playing a game instead of just rearranging pieces. In the meantime, GAME Code commands can be used to move pieces in ways that bypass bans on some types of moves, and manually entered moves can bypass some of the limitations of moving by mouse.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 18, 2013 01:00 AM UTC:

Okay, the banned() function now does nothing in the problem composer, and the ! at the beginning of invisible spaces gets replaced with an _ in the problem composer, allowing pieces from these spaces to be moved around normally.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:53 PM UTC:

I have now added the ability to publish a problem without a solution. This is useful when recreating compositions from a book whose solution is not immediately obvious. This page now has the ability to filter for solved problems, unsolved problems, and any problems.

agent mist wrote on Sun, Mar 3, 2013 01:07 AM UTC:

Abbot Chess Problems 121
Problem #1 Mate in Two

There is a difference in my solution and yours, basically the difference
comes from the fact that the black king can take the white horse.
How about Qh8h3
Kx (the horse)
queen goes under black queen to checkmate
.....

I forgot the page and chess places so I failed the annotation

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Mar 3, 2013 01:21 PM UTC:

If White begins with Q h8-h3, Black can respond by capturing the Queen with the Knight at g1. This costs White the Queen without improving White's ability to checkmate Black. Being able to capture the White Knight with the King does Black no good, since it leads, as your example showed, to immediate checkmate. When White's object is to mate in so many moves, Black's object is to prolong the game. After Q h8-h3, N g1-f3 prolongs the game, but K c3-d4 does not.

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Sat, Mar 23, 2013 07:43 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Fergus, thanks for this new feature! - Tony

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2015 11:12 AM UTC:

A problem can now be deleted by its author. When you are signed in while viewing a problem you have entered, you will see a Delete button. Click this, confirm your intention to Delete, and the problem file will be deleted.

Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2017 03:07 AM UTC:

A number of questions for Fergus about possible alternative uses (if allowed) for the Game Courier Chess Variant Problems feature:

1) May chess variant endgame studies be entered (rather than just problems with mate in x moves)?

2) Similarly, may examples of chess variant endgame technique be entered (e.g. just sample variation(s), plus possible commentary, given of how archbishop and pawn(s) beats rook and equal pawn(s))?

3) Also similarly, may examples of chess variant middlegame (or opening) strategy or tactics be entered (again, just sample variation(s), plus possible commentary)?

4) If some or none of the above three is allowed, might these be supported in some other way at some point on CVP?

Florin Lupusoru wrote on Fri, Mar 8, 2024 04:39 PM UTC:

If nobody has published a Game Courier chess variant problem in almost 10 years maybe the editors will take notice of it and try to repurpose this feature. There are great chess variants that are not on Game Courier, such as my own Scramble that could be played against Stockfish and could generate lots of problems to be published.

Another purpose/feature would be to show updates from members' own YouTube channel/ or social media pages where they talk about chess variants and chess variants problems. This is just a suggestion but it's up to the editors to decide.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 8, 2024 05:26 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 04:39 PM:

If nobody has published a Game Courier chess variant problem in almost 10 years maybe the editors will take notice of it and try to repurpose this feature.

What is it you have in mind?

There are great chess variants that are not on Game Courier, such as my own Scramble that could be played against Stockfish and could generate lots of problems to be published.

Game Courier has nothing to do with Stockfish, though. So, it's not clear how this ties in with what you were previously saying.

Another purpose/feature would be to show updates from members' own YouTube channel/ or social media pages where they talk about chess variants and chess variants problems.

That's also unrelated to Game Courier. If members want to, they can already put information about YouTube channels or social media on their profile pages, and they can post to their profile pages to keep people up-to-date on videos or other Chess variant related things they might find interesting.

Florin Lupusoru wrote on Sat, Mar 9, 2024 05:52 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Fri Mar 8 05:26 PM:

If members want to, they can already put information about YouTube channels or social media on their profile pages, and they can post to their profile pages to keep people up-to-date on videos or other Chess variant related things they might find interesting.