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I tried starting a game with the following time settings
Spare Time 1 week
Grace Time 24 hours
Min Time 2 days
Bonus Time 12 hours
Max Time 2 weeks
It wouldn't work, saying that I shouldn't set Min time above Max time
Does the Alfaerie-Many set affect the time it takes to process a move? I've been working on a large preset and whenever I tried it using alfaerie-many it never even finished running the pre-game code.
I don't think that would work. White could use his first turn to advance its entire army 2 ranks, which would give him a significant space advantage.
I'm not great with Game Code, so I might not have the best advice. I don't think there's any way to have real-time movement. Maybe you could approximate it by letting players take turns making any number of moves until a capture occurs.
Hey all, new user here. Question, I'm trying to program Senterej, the Ethiopian Chess variant into Game Courier. Would anyone have a recommendation for coding the mobilization phase? (where pieces can be moved freely until the initial capture)
I searched game courier to see if it was coded for play already and did not see it
Thank you very much
Okay, I fixed the error, and the King can capture the piece on b2 now.
Hello Fergus, it's in this game: lunaris-cvgameroom-2022-24-568 when i now try to capture with my king (a1-b2) this happens. Maybe there's something else wrong in the rules enforcement, but it shows this error message. I created this file based on shogi, meaning i edited the shogi preset.
Can you give me a link or a series of moves in which this error comes up?
Hello, for some reason i get the following error message in a game of judkin shogi:
Syntax Error on line 587
The cond operator requires at least three arguments.
Since that line is from the shogi include file, which i suppose was well checked, i don't know how i could possibly correct that. Who can tell me, what's the problem? I copy and paste the relevant part (from the pawndropcheckmate subroutine - even though i didn't use a pawn in my move) the relevant line is the one with an arrow.
sub pawndropcheckmate pawn spot:
my allies;
local king kingmoves black test to;
verify empty #spot and onboard #spot;
if == #pawn P:
set king where #spot 0 -1;
set black true;
else:
set king where #spot 0 1;
set black false;
endif;
verify == space #king cond #black k K;
set kingmoves merge leaps #king 1 0 leaps # 1 1;
for to #kingmoves:
------> if not cond #black islower isupper space #to or empty #to and onboard #to:
move #king #to;
set checked fn cond #black ATTACKEDBYW ATTACKEDBYB #to;
restore;
verify #checked;
endif;
Thank you, Armin
Thanks a lot, I didn't know that function. :=)
@Jean-Louis, you type drawn
into the Moves text field (instead of clicking anything).
I've never seen this possibility in the games I have played. I don't know how to do, when I do a move, I move a piece, how can I enter "drawn"?
I think you have to submit drawn as a move. In a rule-enforcing preset you have to make sure the preset would accept that GAME-code command.
I imagine the question has been asked in the past. Sorry to ask again, I don't know the answer:
Is there any way to propose a draw, null, to an opponent on Game Courier?
(Resigning is not really a solution because if a game is going to no end, it is unfair to give a "lost" at the player who resigns and "has won" to the other player.)
Thanks
In this pocket shogi copper game I'm trying to make the move k 8g-9h and I get an error
Syntax Error on line 376
The cond operator requires at least three arguments.
I saw your comment after I fixed the error in the preset's code, but thank you for posting the information anyway. I'm guessing the errors above the subroutine error in the log were the main cause of the Error 524 problem, but it could be that the preset was just so big that it took too long to spot the error and print the log. After all, Taishin Shogi's GC preset is the largest GC preset with full rule enforcement and display of legal moves that I know of (in terms of board size (25x25), number of piece types (232 in total), and number of lines of code (total is probably close to or over 1000 as of right now)).
Is it just me, or is the latest version of my Taishin Shogi GC preset overloading this whole site? Whenever I click on my settings file to play it, I get nothing but 524 errors for a while.
When I first tried loading it, I checked the error log and got
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/chessvariants/public_html/play/pbm/gamecode.php on line 2524
I fixed some of the errors above it, but I still get a maximum execution time exceeded error. There is one persisting and multiply-repeating warning that I think is due to your own code:
PHP Warning: Undefined array key 897 in /home/chessvariants/public_html/play/pbm/gamecode.php on line 1122
The line in question, line 1122, is part of the code for the "sub" command, which indicates the beginning of a subroutine definition, and it says:
$linenum = $links[$linenum];
This refers to an array that is calculated before any line of GAME Code is executed. This comes from analyzing the structure of the code. So, I would recommend looking for a structural problem in one of your subroutines. Perhaps a block of code wasn't closed off properly, causing endsub to not be expected yet when it appeared. The problem might be around line 897 of your code, since that was the value for $linenum in the warning that kept repeating.
Is it just me, or is the latest version of my Taishin Shogi GC preset overloading this whole site? Whenever I click on my settings file to play it, I get nothing but 524 errors for a while.
I will admit that the thing is one of the biggest GC presets out there in terms of file size (if not the biggest) since there are so many piece types, as well as special promotion rules (i.e. contagious pieces), and all manner of multi-part moves, but I haven't had problems like this before.
Edit: I found the problem. It was a tiny syntax error in the isdoublemove subroutine. Everything works fine now.
There was a syntax error in one line. It's now corrected.
I can't either, so it's not just you.
The problems seem to come again. I cannot access to any of my on-going games. Just me?
I was looking for a global way to eliminate some PHP warnings, but that requirement proved to be too restrictive. So, I have removed it.
I then tried requiring minimal argument counts instead, but even that caused problems for unary, binary, and mixed unary/binary operators. But since they seemed to work with operators requiring 3 or more arguments, I left those minimal argument count requirements in.
It was general. I think it's back OK now.
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