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Jason, I don´t know the game 'Miniature Chess'. May you clarify?
Miniature Chess is the 5x5 variant of Chess as described in the index of this pages, I figure. Los Alamos is the well known 6x6 variant. It is not clear if the open invitation is for play these games using the PBM system, if it is the case, a PRESET may be needed.
I recently added two open invitation (for Anti-King Chess and Pocket Mutation Chess). They appeared in Game Log, but not here. What did I wrong?
Suggestion: it would be nice if the game name in third column be a link directly to the game rules.
It seems to be working now, though I'm not sure that I did anything to fix it. Delete your old invitations and try issuing them again. In case it doesn't work, save the html code created by Game Courier after you have it issue the invitation. If it doesn't work, email me this html code, so that I can better tell what went wrong.
The Waiting Room makes use of a database created by David Howe, and this database does not contain links to the rules pages. To view the rules for any game listed on this page, follow the 'Play this person' link, then read the brief rules provided with the preset or follow the preset's link to the rules page. I have plans for using the Logs page as though it were the Waiting Room page, but I'll have to wait for all invitations before Sunday to go away. Since the Logs page gets its information from the logs instead of from a database, it can access any variable in the logs, including a link to the rules.
i have a big problem with this page - i can't figure out how to post an open invitation to the waiting room. i have searched all around for the answer and can't find it.
ok, i figured it out. but it's hardly easy to find. this page could definitely use some additional links and explanation.
To the people that want to play: Please define reasonable time controls. Some potential contendors may be discouraged to play if the time controls are too exigent ('Gwidon Naskrent': May you reconsider the rithm of play, bonus time, etc?)
What did I do wrong with setting game time? Is 5 moves per week with a bonus time of 2 days per move in any way strenuous? Please enlighten a newbie, thanks.
'If you move within the bonus period of zero seconds, you will gain a bonus of 1 day.' Is this a bonus per move?. I think it is not. The period for being bennefited with the bonus is of zero seconds, i.e., if you don´t play immediately, you can´t gain any bonus. Please revise it
How do I change the time controls once an invitation has been set up? Thanks for help :)
You can't change the time controls of an invitation. What you can do is delete one invitation and issue a new one with different time controls.
Rhengin wrote on Wed, May 5, 2004 06:22 AM UTC:Poor ★Your navigation in poor! I want to log in and invite my friends to play a popular Chinese gambling game called 'Chi Zode'! The 'Chess Variant' game 'Nuclear Chess' is the same thing! Could you please fix this and have better navigation and less self-referential links? Thank you, Rhengin Xi Lao Tsangi
Rhengin, Your requests are too vague for me to know what you want, and your tone is too hostile for me to care. Learn to make polite, specific requests, or learn to go without what you want. I know nothing of this Chinese gambling game that is supposedly the same as Nuclear Chess, and I am highly skeptical of your claims that they are the same. Nuclear Chess is based on Western Chess, and it is not a gambling game. And if Chi Zode is so popular, why did I get zero hits when I typed it into Google?
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:24 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★<p>I love this Game Courier. It really is fantastic!</p>
<p>A <i>very tiny</i> bug report though, and I don't know if this is actually a problem with the GC or not, but when viewing the list of games in progress, and you click on 'Unicorn Great Chess' you get the description of <a href='/historic.dir/indiangr1.html'>Turkish Great Chess</a> and not <a href='/large.dir/unicorn.html'>Unicorn Chess</a>. In fact, I'm not sure the 'Great' belongs at all.</p>
<p>Thanks again! I'm so glad that I can play these games online! Now I just need to get around to reading the Developer's Manual ...</p>
David Paulowich never made a page for Unicorn Great Chess, but it is a different game than his Unicorn Chess.
Would be nice to have possibilty to move by clicking with mouse on starting postion in diagramm and then on the destination position. This is how most of other game sites work.
That wouldn't be compatible with all browsers, and it could never be flexible enough for all variants, particularly variants with cards. The most I might do is allow clicking on spaces as an alternate method of filling in the moves field, but I'm reluctant to do that, because it may end up confusing users who would expect it to be more fully functional than it would be. For example, it would not be able to highlight squares or to identify legal moves ahead of time. Other online systems can do such things by custom-designing the interface for specific games. But Game Courier is designed for flexibility and generality, and so it requires a general and open-ended input format, and a text field is the most general and open-ended input format available. Anyway, point-and-click is not an essential feature, it is not so much more difficult to type your moves, and it does a player good to think about the actual coordinates he is moving his pieces from and to. So I don't expect to be adding anything like this anytime soon.
Yes, if two clicks would only fill up an edit field this would be already very good. On SchemingMind.com they use JavaScript, so that the move can be entered without connection to server. I think the same would be nice here. It 's fine not to have any check for valid moves or highlight the move. Text entry is certainly very flexible, but it takes more time, especially when playing on unusual boards (like circular) or with non-standard pieces.
Greg Strong wrote on Wed, May 25, 2005 05:14 AM UTC:There seems to be a problem with invitations. When I issued an open invitation, I got errors about not being able to write. The What's New page then showed the newest game courier invitation 5 seconds ago, but the game logs page didn't list it, so I don't think it was actually created.
Greg Strong wrote on Fri, May 27, 2005 02:45 PM UTC:Game Courier invitations still don't work. When issuing an invitation, I
get:
<p>Warning:
fopen(/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/opulent_chess/mageofmaple-cvgameroom-2005-146-654.php):
failed to open stream: Permission denied in
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/create_log.php on line 21
<p>Failed to write to the file
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/opulent_chess/mageofmaple-cvgameroom-2005-146-654.php.
<p>Also, I can no longer save changes to my presets, I get similar permission
errors. Sorry to be the bearar of bad news...
Two different players are waiting for contendors in Avalanche Chess. I think the game can start, if one player accepts the invitation of the other one.
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