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Okay, thanks Fergus. Judging by my listing of logs of my currently unfinished Game Courier games, I can see that you've deleted that Frog Chess game log.
Fergus,
I'm getting this error message when I'm trying to play in my game below:
Error: The logfile at ../pbmlogs/petteia_xxi/j_carrillo_vii-cvgameroom-2018-146-869.php is missing, or something is misspelled.
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play@chessvariants.com
To:j_carrillo_vii
Jul 9 at 2:15 PM
Here is the latest move in the game of Petteia XXI between you and per hommerberg:
25... s i5-h5
To make your move, follow this URL:
http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game%3DPetteia+XXI%26log%3Dj_carrillo_vii-cvgameroom-2018-146-869%26userid%3Dj_carrillo_vii
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Is there a problem with the database, or was the game deleted?
It looks like the log was deleted. There is no entry for it in the database, and all that is left is the backup. You can ask per31 if he deleted it.
Fergus,
Can you please restore the backup?
Thanks.
I renamed the backup to a php file, and it is currently your opponent's turn. Once he moves, the database entry will be recreated, and it will show up on the logs page again. Since it is not showing up there now, inform your opponent that he has to repeat his last move for the game to continue, and send him a link to the log.
Fergus
My opponent ran out of time in this game:
http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game=Modern+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-cvgameroom-2018-172-521
However the game is still showing active in the Game Courier Game Logs page.
Can you fix the status of this game as the game is completed?
Is there something I need to do to the preset to prevent thiscondition from happening?
Thanks.
It's not showing up as active on the Logs page. It says you won.
Как в игре сделать ход? Я не могу сделать ход. Не работает кнопка отправить ход
Ben Reiniger wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2018 03:15 PM UTC:Do you mean in your current Game Courier game? It doesn't appear to be your turn yet.
You should request aid in just one place; this one seems the most reasonable, so I'll remove your other comments.
(By the way, I'm relying on Google translate for your messages, so apologies if I misunderstand.)
My move in the party. I can not make a move. No button to make a move. Writes an error. How can I make a move in the party? Help
This preset now uses the new code for identifying check, checkmate, and stalemate. Let me know of any problems with it.
ILLEGAL: p g9-g7; on turn 2:
There was no p on g9. It is an empty space.
Go back with your browser's BACK button, reload the page, and try again.
I'm having trouble playing a game of Storm the Ivory Tower. When I click on my name (trying to start the process of playing a move) I get an error message saying that the logfile is missing or else something is misspelled:
Another gamelog missing or something misspelled error message, this time for a Chinese Chess game I'm playing:
Another logfile missing or something misspelled message, this time for a Chess with Different Armies game:
An error message for a game of Gross Chess of mine:
Okay, that's all fixed. I was rewriting the code without the use of a deprecated feature, and I didn't quite get it right last night.
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Sep 12, 2018 04:47 PM UTC:I have a bug with Gross Chess. This log is incorrectly calling a stalemate. (It didn't actually end the game, but it won't let me move either.)
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Gross+Chess&log=panther-cvgameroom-2018-248-216&userid=mageofmaple
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Sep 12, 2018 04:48 PM UTC:Or maybe it's a larger problem. CwDA is doing this as well:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Chess+with+Different+Armies&log=panther-cvgameroom-2018-248-218&userid=mageofmaple
There was a typo in my last change to Game Courier. Fixing that fixed the problem.
I cannot post in the Game Courier Logs thread for some reason. In the following game log my opponent played a move and did not checkmate, yet he was declared the winner. The preset was rules enforcing:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Shogi&log=panther-cvgameroom-2018-248-210
That may have happened when the typo I made introduced a bug in the code. I corrected the results for this game in the log and the database.
Still cannot comment in the Game Logs thread. This time an error declared me winner in a game I didn't move in:
That was due to a coding mistake I made yesterday. I replaced the count function with is_array($op1) && count($op1) instead of is_array($op1) ? count($op1) : 0, and the result was that the actual count was replaced with 1 whenever it was positive. I fixed that, corrected your log and its database entries, fixed the problem with posting here, and moved your comments from where you originally made them.
I don't understand what happened in the following game log. It looks like my opponent might have illegally taken back some moves:
He might have done it accidentally, since he repeated the same move.
Okay Fergus, I replayed my move (at the point before I dropped a captured pawn on b7). If it happens again I'll be tempted to just delete all my games that I have with this player, depite that I think I'm doing fine in all of them. Remember, he is the one Carlos complained about earlier.
Carlos was jumping the gun about him. He was using translated pages, and these weren't sending the correct submit values to Game Courier. I recommended that he use English pages, and in the meantime, I fixed the problem with translated pages, so that they would work too.
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2018 11:38 PM UTC:It's strange, I've had this problem with Sergey, too, but only in Shatranji. I'm playing a number of other games with him and they're all fine. But in our Shatranji game he kept going back again and again when I would make a nasty drop. Eventually he resigned. I suspect he doesn't understand the drop rules.
I'll see if my wife is interested in translating something about drops, or maybe the Shatranji page. (She's fluent in Russian but not in Chess variants...)
I'm not sure what's happening in the following game of mine. The game is listed as lost on time for my opponent, yet his clock is still ticking at this point:
Since the site was down for a week, I added a week of time to the players whose moves were interrupted by this downtime. But this works only in Game Courier itself. To repeat accurate calculations for each log, the Logs page would have to load each log, which would multiply the work it has to do. Instead, it relies on the value of the Deadline column in the GameLogs table. This is a fixed value that was not updated when I added code to Game Courier to compensate for the time lost by the site being down. Since this value may be mistaken, the Logs page no longer updates logs or the database when time has run out. In this case, it is mistaken, and you should simply continue your game.
The game log of mine in question is now acting as if my opponent (who has since made a move) never lost on time, ever, and clock times are okay in view of what you just wrote Fergus, so it's a case that things have now resolved themselves successfully.
In the following game my opponent should have been declared the winner due to checkmate (after I made a blunder), but the preset for Chinese Chess erroneously gives my opponent's move as only being a check against me:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Chinese+Chess&log=panther-tamandua-2018-266-270
This is now fixed. The legal move it had found was the General taking the Chariot. I don't know why it allowed this. The code originally looked like this:
def G checkride #0 #1 1 0 and == var g #1 or checkleap #0 #1 0 1 and flag #1;
This code compared the value of g, which is where the other General was, to the destination.
I changed it to this, which compares the piece on the destination space to the label for the other General.
def G checkride #0 #1 1 0 and == space #1 g or checkleap #0 #1 0 1 and flag #1;
There are certain players who don't read the rules of the game they are playing, so if the preset doesn't display legal moves they do anything regardless the rules. Apparently they don't read either the comment field in the current game page, so they continue to do illegal moves without paying attention to remarks. I don't speak of occasional illegal moves (it happens to anyone) but systematic ones. Yes, the non-automated presets and the use of GC interface can be confusing for new-comers, but if you don't understand something you ask questions or you do something else. Even if they don't understand english this is not an excuse not to read the rules. So I will stop to begin new games with concerned players and delete ongoing games where they don't follow the rules, unless they start to play with the rules. I won't contact them directly by e-mail because - sorry to be paranoiac - I don't know these people and I don't want to be spammed or anything else. I don't have much hope the concerned people will read this comment, but... if you don't understand english, use a translation tool. если вы не понимаете английский язык, используйте инструмент перевода.
And for the others GC players, what do you generally do in this case?
@Erik
It has happened to me, too! Bassically I had followed the same steps you did and then did exactly what you have done. It is the common sense after all, maybe with very small tweaks :)! There will always be a small chance for these things to happen so that is that :)! I don't remember the name of the dude that has done that to me, but I have publically commented about it during spring. Does it worth it for you to find them?
Thanks Aurelian for your reply, I feel less alone :) I didn't find your comments about it, from when are they dated and in wich thread? But I saw that a player who don't respect the rules in games I have with him had issues with automatic russian translation that alter commands in the game log (if I well understood - and maybe there was bugs then in the website, I don't know). And in addition to the question of language, some functions in Game Courier could be complicated and difficult to understand for people nor very accustomed to this interface (but not for everyone). But this is not the problem: the problem is not to respect the rules of the game you are playing, or even not to try to read them at all. Maybe I appear a little 'psychorigid' (don't know if this word exist in english), but rules is the condition of existence of this type of games, which are defined by them. But above all I don't see the interest for those people of trying to play a game without knowing its rules, except for ruining the website.
As I had said before your are perfectly correct.
It is hard for me to find the comments in quenstion, but I'll try :)!
A very minor glitch to report:
I've noticed for some time now that regardless of what game log I'm playing, if I'm looking at that game log when it is the opponent's move, it seems whenever an opponent moves during such a moment, I see a big error message page instead of the game's log (i.e. with it now being my turn to move), until I leave that page and re-enter the log page in question once again - then it shows that it's my turn, and my clock is ticking.
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Lance wrote on Mon, Nov 26, 2018 11:46 PM UTC:Hobby Lobby is also a [REDACTED] company that I would never patronize.
These acuzations are very serious dear sir, how would you back up such claims?
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2018 08:31 PM UTC:I have edited Lance's comment. We ask the user community to please refrain from posting slander/libel on these forums. Even if claims are arguably true, we are a volunteer effort and have no interest in exposing ourselves to potential litigation. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
@Fergus
Hello!
There seems to be a bug which is a mild incovinience.
It seems to me that when clicking in the menu "Your games on game courier" you recieve the game finder of active and invitations. Each second time I see only invitations. It would be so cool if you took a look.
Thanks!
This hasn't happened to me. Keep track of the page you were on when this happened, and get back to me with this. Also, make sure the problem is not simply that it is not currently your turn in any game.
Here are the 2 cases. Why?
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/logs.php?stat=ongoing&age=7776000&sort=priority&userid=catugo
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/logs.php?stat=ongoing&age=7776000&sort=priority&userid={$userid}
It looks like I'm logged in and logged out but it is not the case as I'm always loged in :)!
The second link is wrong. It contains the string "{$userid}" instead of the value of the $userid variable. From what page are you getting this link?
Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Feb 5, 2019 01:41 AM UTC:This is happening to me now, too. I make a move in a game. Then, under the "Whats Next" section, I click the "Your Logs" as I have always done, and now I get {$userid} in the URL that it sends me to.
The difference to to start from the way you enter the exact same link.
If I click my games on game courier I always find both active and challenges.
When I click confirm on a move during a game a window apears where I need to press "your logs" to come back to the same window as described above.
It seems to me that the conumdrum is in the way the userid gets paseed out of the difference you have pointed out Fergus :)!
As a temporary solution for users facing this problem would be to just use multiple tabs. This way the inconvenience is out and least until an opponet makes a move :)!
I found a line of HTML that included "{$userid}" for inserting the value of the $userid variable, and I changed it to a PHP echo statement.
It seems that posting kibbitz comments isn't available anymore?
The last Kibbitz comment was 438 days ago. When I got rid of the play subdomain and put everything on one main domain, I started using the same footers for all pages. It looks like I did not add Kibbitzing code to the main footer that replaced the play subdomain's footer. I'll get on that in a while.
It looks like the site was down over 11 hours today. I have programmed Game Courier to give an extra 12 hours to anyone whose move was interrupted by this downtime.
I found the site down this morning, and when I booted it back up, the last log was over 18 hours ago. So, I modified Game Courier to take 19 hours off the time for any move interrupted by this downtime.
I found the site down this afternoon and booted it back up. Since the last move had been made almost four hours ago, I modified Game Courier to take off four hours from any move interrupted by this downtime.
Must be early. Still can't access any active timed games
Currently I can only access my/(other people's) untimed games, whether it's my turn to move or not. Otherwise, nothing shows for timed games in progress, whether my move or not. Invitations that are timed do show, at least.
I left out a semicolon when I updated the timeleft.php file earlier. So I fixed that and changed the time it discounts for the latest interruption to 6 hours.
Once again, the site was offline, and I booted it back up. This time, it was down for nearly 14 hours, and I discounted that much from interrupted moves.
For reasons unknown, the host went down for almost three hours today. I compensated interrupted games by three hours.
For some reason I'm not being allowed to move in any of my 6 current games in progress where it's my turn, as far as I can tell.
[edit: I've been able to enter moves manually, but still not by mouse clicking.]
The same is true for me also. I think there was a tweak to the base code related to legal moves. When you mouse click your piece in the past a gray square came up. This does not occur anymore.
Yeah, I liked how it was before better. The dropdown menu of legal moves is a good addition, so long as it doesn't interfere with a player's ability to click and move as one would normally do. I could see myself using the dropdown menu to enter lion moves (chu shogi) in the future, even considering the time it would take to scroll through 100+ legal moves.
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Aug 7, 2020 11:13 AM UTC:How do you like the method for entering Lion moves as it is used here? And would you consider it an improvement if the screen for the second leg appeared with the Lion already pre-selected, so that you would immediately see its final destinations highlighted, rather than having to click it again for that?
That is an improvement. I like how it assumes the move is complete after a non-capturing first step. I also like the "pass" button. Yes, a pre-selected lion would be an improvement.
As far as I can tell, the inability to move with the mouse is unrelated to making legal moves available in autocomplete. I turned it off, but it didn't fix the problem. So, I turned it back on. I will look into this further after breakfast.
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Aug 7, 2020 03:38 PM UTC:Is there a GAME code command for setting the board to a given FEN code? I am currently looking into the issue of handling shuffle games. But because potentially every square on the board could be involved in a shuffle, it seems a good idea to store the entire board in a constant, like setconst startshuffle fencode; . The trick is to set up the board from the retreived constant, if that existed.
[Edit] Or would it be better to copy and restore the $space system variable, though
setconst startshuffle $space; setsystem space const startshuffle;
?
[Edit2] Well, the latter seems to work, so I suppose I can stick to that. But something else: I tried shuffle #a; , where a is an array of coordinates. But that doesn't do anything. Apparently shuffle wants to have the list of coordinates it should shuffle as literals. I could not think of any better way than joining all array elements in a for-next loop into a space-separated text string, append that to the string "shuffle", and apply eval to it. Isn't there really any simpler way to do that?
Moving by mouse or tap is now enabled again. Since the NAME and ID values on the input field are different, I got confused and made them the same. I have now restored the correct ID.
I have accepted these days 2 challenges as white and I got black (as the default). One was shako and the other is opulent chess. Is this a problem of mine or of the website?
Hi Fergus
are you aware?
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As of December 15 we will need a new mailing list for open invitations from Game Courier.
are you aware?
I was not. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
As of December 15 we will need a new mailing list for open invitations from Game Courier.
Does anyone know of any viable alternatives? I do not want to use the chessvariants.com server for this.
Fergus,
Google Groups is an alternative.
groups.google.com
Google Groups is an alternative.
Isn't that just a web-based continuation of Usenet? Do Google groups work as mailing lists like Yahoo! groups did?
Fergus,
Yes it works too as the Yahoo Mailing lists.
I just created a test list with two of my email addresses, and sent a test message to my new list.
Got the test email on both of my email inboxes.
I just created a test list with two of my email addresses, and sent a test message to my new list.
Can you post a message to it by sending email to the group?
Yes Fergus.
The email group address would look like this:
xxxxxxxxxx@googlegroups.com
Can someone help us? We try to play Metamachy with Numerist, I have the black pieces. When I click on one of the 4 which are in the center of the board, it activates (with a framed square) the 4 squares in the center of my lines, but how to move the piece in those squares? I've tried to click, to hold and drop the piece, nothing works. I've tried with Safari and with Firefox. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you
Hello, Having tried the Metamachy preset with a personal invitation to myself, when I click "... to move" for the first move, I have the message "The invitation to play this game hasn't been accepted yet." and it is impossible to do a move, even after going back to the menu and returning to the game log. Is it that? Maybe you can try to send an open invitation, that your opponent could accept. I seem to remember that there could have been issues with personal invitations in GC.
Hi Fergus,
Did you get to create the new email group at GoogleGroups?
xxxxxxxxxx@googlegroups.com
The cvgameroom@yahoogroups.com no longer works, as Yahoo decommissioned that service on December 15th.
Cheers.
Jose
Did you get to create the new email group at GoogleGroups?
I just created it now. I'll do something more with it tomorrow. In the meantime, you can sign up for it.
I have now updated Game Courier to use the cvgameroom at Google Groups. No one is automatically signed up for this. If you want to get emails about open invitations, you should sign up. I tried sending an invitation to it. I have not yet received it in my email yet, but I have seen it show up in the Google Group. So it may just be a matter of time.
Looks good Fergus.
I just sent a public invitation and received the email from the google group.
Thanks Jose
PS. Did you get the invitation for the game I setup? I didn't get the invitation for the game you had sent, but my membership to the group had not been accepted yet.
I got the invitation you sent in my email, but not the one I sent. Both are showing up on the group page, though.
The database seems to be working now. I have adjusted the time controls for games to give ten extra days to make up for the downtime.
In this private log my opponent tried to move but got an error saying the log backup failed https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Tiger+Chess&log=arx-agroden-2021-51-783
Okay, I turned on the group write bit for all log and log backup files, and I modified Game Courier to also turn it on. That should fix the problem.
I'd like to report a bug in a Game Courier Preset for Chess With Different Armies:
In this game between Aurelian and me (lunaris-cvgameroom-2021-48-645) on my turn 17, the preset concluded on check, even though it wasn't the case. It didn't impact the game, since my opponent took my piece anyway, but it could have, preventing him from doing another move. I read that the preset was created by Fergus, so maybe you find some time to look into that.
Thank you, Armin
That's now fixed. The function for the Waffle, which moves as a Wazir or an Alfil, was using the W function, which is for the Woody Rook, instead of the WZ function, which is for the Wazir. Since the Woody Rook moves as a Wazir or a Dabbabah, it took a situation like this for the bug to be noticed.
@ Fergus:
This CVP site has been painfully slow (for me anyway) for at least a couple of weeks, especially when trying to move on GC. Any idea what's happening?
For me, too!
For me the CVP is really really slow. It's really a pain. What's going on?
It was back to normal around noon, European time, but now (6:30 PM, Paris time) is awful again, sloooooooooow, impossible to play or read a page. Am I the only one with that problem? Is there anything changed I have to care of?
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I made a backup of the site last month, but your Frog Chess log was too recent to be included in it. I also made a backup yesterday, but that was too late. This log is unrecoverable, but you can start the game over. According to the database record I just deleted, your opponent was wdtr2.