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Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When I go to any person information page and try to view unpublished submissions, it just shows my own submissions.
Waffle Chess with Gryphon and Falcon. Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There was a typo in implementing a new property I had added. I added the displayPieces property, which when set above zero will display the piece table when the page loads. This much worked as it should, but when it was not set, it omitted the closing > in the tag, which caused what followed it to not be displayed.
Waffle Chess with Manticore and Falcon. 
Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?
Waffle Chess with Gryphon and Falcon. Expansion for waffle chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?
Hannibal Chess with Manticore and Falcon. Expansion for hannibal chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@Fergus, It seems the ID does not work here. When pressing "here" the pieces are not shown. Just the legend. I know you have changed the script a bit. Any idea on what is going on?
Unnecessarily Complicated Chess. Members-Only Why do things the easy way, when doing them the hard way is so much more fun? (19x23, Cells: 423) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
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Masonic Chess. Game played on a Masonic tile board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Ishskwaday III by Stuart Spence, AKA Zulban
Critter Mate Chess. Members-Only Minichess, but the king has a magical familiar. (6x6, Cells: 36) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝A. M. DeWitt wrote at 09:27 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from Sat Apr 27 07:09 PM:I have done it but not sure it is a good idea because if you use "view as player B". It won’t be correctly oriented.
Well, that problem was kind of already baked in to begin with, unless you used a separate piece style like you do with the Shogi Motif pieces on the biscandine site.
The point is to make sure all the 2D Kanji are oriented correctly on the biscandine site. Anyone who has played Shogi long enough would immediately notice something was wrong with the second player's promoted minor pieces if they used the 2D Classic set for Seireigi.
Unnecessarily Complicated Chess. Members-Only Why do things the easy way, when doing them the hard way is so much more fun? (19x23, Cells: 423) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Lynx Chess. Members-Only Razorbill. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Kangaroo Chess. Row of kangaroos behind the pawns behind the pawns. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Synochess. Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Apr 28 08:28 PM UTC:You must not write anything on the row behind the =. Probably /..$= would already do. On encountering the = filling of the matrix skips to the friendly captures/hops, and at the same time copies what you already have defined in the row (so ..$ here) to the corresponding friendly interactions. What you continue after that will start to overwrite the copied friendly interactions.
Idk how to prohibit hops with captureMatrix. I thought captureMatrix=/..$=.........//////////// would work.
Edit: Fixed. Thx HGM!
Is there a way editor(s) can let me know my 10 submissions to be reviewed have not been forgotten? I put out a comment for each of the 10 about two months ago that each was ready for review.
Astrohex. Members-Only Star-alike variant on irregular hexagons. (Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Ambitious Amphibies. Members-Only Another abnormal side for Chess with Different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Trojan chess. the rules for the knight piece have been changed. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Unnecessarily Complicated Chess. Members-Only Why do things the easy way, when doing them the hard way is so much more fun? (19x23, Cells: 423) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
VaoQi. Members-Only XiangQi with Vaos. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the command to filter chess game would be :
gulp --no-default-games --modules src/games/chessbase build --prod
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Apr 28 10:20 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 06:48 AM:We could also ask the more general question of not keeping anything other than chess variants. Something to think about.
Indeed, that occurred to me too. We could easily delete all lines in the jocly-allgames.js file that do not refer to chess variants.
OTOH, the preferred access to the variants on this website appears to be through the Jocly overview page, not through the 'other Jocly games' link that the applet always shows. It is a bit silly when you first have to select a variant you don't want to play, and then switch. And the switch works in the applet, but not for the rule description page we embedded the applet in.
But the overview page also needs refactoring; listing the available variants by date is not helpful at all to the unwary visitor of this website. I am not sure what the best presentation is, though. I suppose alphabetically, even though this competes with what you could do (with some more knowledge and effort) in the site's alphabetical index.
I am also thinking of 'modernizing' the install here. By replacing jocly.game.js the Jocly core is already fully compatible with the recent source code. The only variant in the CVP install that has not been back-ported to source yet is Tenjiku Shogi. Since all game-specific model and view files include a version of the chessbase model and view, there is no harm in different variants needing different versions of these.
So we could replace all model and view files in the chessbase folder by those from the most-recent compile, and the images and supporting info file these use in the chessbase/res sub-tree as well. I think Tenjiku Shogi exclusively uses sprites, mesh files and diffusemaps from the shogi2 subdirectory, which does not exist in the source tree. Only jocly-allgames.js must be made to always have the extra line defining Tenjiku Shogi, compared to the version created by building Jocly from source.
Ambitious Amphibies. Members-Only Another abnormal side for Chess with Different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
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