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The definition of the Knight move is not correct. On an undistorted board it would allow the Knight to also move like Wazir or Ferz. This could be fixed by also excluding moves that are reachable in a single step.
I missed that before, but you are correct. I can rewrite it like this:
The Knight can leap directly to any space that could be reached in two one-space moves except for those reachable by a Rook or Bishop. Since it's a one-space move from A4 to b4 or from H5 to g5, a Knight on A4 or H5 can leap further away than a Knight can normally leap.
Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 01:06 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sun Nov 20 04:45 PM:Yes, (though this extends to burning pieces in general) and the BadZone code from the last version mostly worked (if you include "in addition to burning another piece"), but like I said earlier, the section testing the evic value (the intermedate square) caused parts of the Demon's area move to disappear when they were within one rank of each other, so I decided to just remove the restriction altogether so I didn't have to worry about it. I think I'll wait until the new function that combines BadZone, WeirdPromotion, etc. is finished.
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 08:58 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sun Nov 20 04:45 PM:I can make a revision with the BadZone code in it if you want.
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 09:14 PM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 08:58 PM:Well, I would like to see the BadZone code. But you can just post it as a comment as well.
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 12:23 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Mon Nov 21 09:14 PM:Here is the BadZone function's code:
function badzoneZone(x2, y2, piece, color, x1, y1, ex, ey) {
if(touched) return 0; // not during ShowMoves()
if(piece == 35 || piece == 65 || piece == 66) // Fire Demons and Heavenly Tetrarches
{
evic = (ex >= 0) ? board[ey][ex] & 511:-1; // intermediate square
if(evic == 35 || evic == 65 || evic == 66) { // Problem area
if((x1 == x2 && y1 == y2) || (ex == x2 && ey == y2)) return 0; // Allow direct capture or igui
else return 1; // else reject
}
}
return 0;
}
}
Eventually I hope to make it so that burning pieces cannot burn each other at all.
You can view a diagram with this function implemented here.
Mansindam (Pantheon Tale). A variant that combines 'drop' rule and strong pieces, and there is no draw. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]https://pychess-pr-657.herokuapp.com/
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Who is Behind the Chess Variant Pages?. The editors, past editors, contributors, and inventors behind this site.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I added H. G. Muller as an editor and made a note about our inactive editors.
Dear H.G. Muller, can you be congratulated for joining the editorial circle? You have my congratulations.
May I ask if you want to continue to be rated as 'private' in an email contact? You are the only editor who has listed his email address as 'private' ( This member's email address is private).
It is certainly important for some users to be able to contact you directly. What do you mean?
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Nov 22, 2022 05:03 PM UTC in reply to Gerd Degens from 04:28 PM:I see little reason for users to discuss privately with a specific editor. If there is an issue it would be better if all editors are aware of it, and can give their opinion. I read here just as often as I read my e-mail.
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Nov 23, 2022 08:43 AM UTC:Is there a place where editors report their acivities, so that the other current and future editors knows what is being done?
I have strated moving Interactive Diagrams from comments into the article's page as main diagram. The first six of the list of playable Diagrams are already done. In this process I sometimes need to upload dedicated graphics for the page (for the static image in <noscript> tags). Not all pages seem to have a directory for that, probably because some did not have any graphics at all. In this case I create a directory for those in the /membergraphics/ directory, with a name starting with MS or ML (the latter for link files), plus the name of the variant (spaces squaeezed out).
I also made a few new alfaerie SVG pieces (thief, general, airplane, quickpawn), and added those to the alfaerieSVG page. I rendered those as 50x50 and 35x35 to put them on the respective alfaeriePNG pages, where I also added knightgeneral and camelrook renderings (which already existed as SVG, but not as PNG).
Is there a place where editors report their acivities, so that the other current and future editors knows what is being done?
I usually report my activities on relevant pages. There is no centralized place for this. If you want to, you could post what you're doing to your profile, since posting comments to profiles is now doable.
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 08:09 AM UTC:For some reason it is not possible to edit this article through the [edit content] link editors will see at the bottom of the page. That is, you get to the edit form, but when you press the 'Send' button nothing happens. I had no such problems with oter articles.
ChessV
. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hello Greg,
I have 2 questions:
- How does the colourbound pieces bonus/penalty work when more pairs of colourbound pieces are involved?
- Does the endgame value of a piece influence opening exchanges, or is it just the middlegame value?
Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 09:38 AM UTC:@Fergus: I have moved the Interactive Diagram that was somewhere down in the comments section into your article, replacing the diagram of the initial setup. (Your original image is still there, within <noscript> tags for those who have JavaScript disabled.) It tried to mimic the original image as much as possible, without resorting to a dedicated background image of the whole board. I hope this is OK with you.
(N.B. Flush the browser cache to use the latest Diagram script, as the previous one did not 'bleach' the dark color for the odd files when displayiong a move diagram.)
Accelerated Chess. Accelerating chess with a new board. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The text was rewritten and the graphics were fixed. It is ready.
Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Okay, it's looking good.
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The problem is that the Notes section includes some TEXTAREAs of its own, and when the first one closes, it closes the TEXTAREA the Notes HTML is being displayed in.
Chak. A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 05:15 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Wed Oct 12 02:11 PM:Please, where can I find these pieces?
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 09:51 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:12 PM:The problem is that the Notes section includes some TEXTAREAs of its own, and when the first one closes, it closes the TEXTAREA the Notes HTML is being displayed in.
I had some problem using textareas in the editor for comments as well, a few days ago; it completely messed up the comment display, and I had a hard time recovering from that, as the edit/reply/view links at the bottom were also clipped off. So this seems a general problem. Is there any solution to it? I suppose this article is in the database, and not in a separate file that I could edit through WinSCP.
Perhaps the script displaying the edit form for submissions can be made to 'disarm' any text it fills the edit boxes with by substituting something else for the word textarea? Inconvenient, of course, as you would have to restore that every time you edit. But better than not being able to edit at all. Perhaps substitute by texxtarea, and make the reverse substitution when the form gets submitted?
Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The definition of the Pegasus is incomplete and confusing:
"The Pegasus leaps as a knight and may then slide outward as a rook" It should be said that "The Pegasus leaps as a knight, one orthogonal step followed by a diagonal step leaping the intervening square, and may then slide outward as a rook on the same orthogonal direction"
For example, a Pegasus on a1 may go on b3,b4,b5,etc. it may not go on b3,c3,d3,etc. which is also leaping as a knight and then slide outward as a rook.
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 11:57 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 10:08 PM:It's ‘outward’ in the same sense that the Shōgi Knight moves ‘forward’; only the most outward of the directions counts.
Arguably could be specified more clearly, but the diagram does imo clarify sufficiently which sense is meant
I can see the potential confusion, but I don't like to make the description so complicated. What about The Pegasus leaps as a knight and may then slide as a rook in the outwardmost direction?
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I tried using htmlspecialchars for the form and htmlspecialchars_decode for inserting into the database, but something went wrong with the Game Courier forms on the page. So, I reverted things back. I'll try it again later in case I did something wrong.
If you want to, you can edit the database directly. I emailed you information on how to do that.
Diagram Designer. Lets you display diagrams without uploading any graphics.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]For editing diagrams from existing pages, it would be useful to be able to load the diagram designer settings from an existing generated URL
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Nov 25, 2022 08:35 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:15 AM:I don't think the problem is how it is encoded in the database. What matters is how it is presented to the client browser. There cannot be any /textarea tags within the recalled text, or the submission form would not be correctly displayed. When presenting the existing text to the user for editing these must be deleted or replaced by something harmless, or everything following it would not be considered as belonging in the editable area. If that 'something harmless' is something the user would never want to be in the text, it could be automatically substituted back for /textarea when the server receives the submission form, before it stores it in the database.
Anyway, I edited the database to temporarily disarm the textarea tags in the Notes section (by replacing those with texxtarea) so that the article can now be normally edited. I inserted the Interactive Diagram in the Setup section, but the textareas are still disabled. I wonder what to do next. I could put in two smaller Interactive Diagrams configured to be game viewers for the specified sequence of moves on the page itself. But those would not work when JavaScript is disabled. So perhaps I should just put back the textarea tags, and leave it at that?
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@H. G. Muller, I actually found this variant to be quite interesting to play, especially since the only difference here is the two modified rows and two additional fields, which affect the playing process dramatically enough without much change from the initial chess properties.