Comments by catugo

Hello again Fergus,

I have completed one diagram for an initial position for apothecary 1 and apothecary 2. I'm not happy with the results, though because I cannot find all the needed pictures in one place. I used alfaerie but there is no picture that will reasonably represent the aanca for example (I used reversed bishop but I'm not very happy with that). No other set is better suited IMO. Is there a way I build a custom apothecary set that will have all the pictures I need? I know apropiate pictures exist on the website from H.G.'s diagram designer, but I don't know how to use them myself. My skills in html also border zero, so please be patient (you usually are) with your explanation.

Here is what I need:

King

Pawn

Aanca

Griffin

Archbishop

Chancellor

Queen

Rook

Joker/fool

knight

bishop

champion

wizard

zebra

elephant

camel

In total 16, there are 27 letters in the alphabet so I gues I'm coverred.

Thanks!

Also, HG Muller's interactive digrams seem to stop working; I think I've said that before!

I found a material about creating my own set, you've previously posted. I'm going to see how farI'm getting with it!

That helps, but still for apothecary 1 I cannot find everything I need in one set, I need modern and animals, also I could not find the fool (joker,jester) anywhere, and I know it exists!

Ok, I found everything I needed for Apothecary 1 in Modern Fairy Pieces (I got a little creative) and in apothecary 2 in Historical&Compounds, and I decided to use the ferz image for the joker piece, what do you guys think of those solutions?

I am happy with those results even if I'd prefer a different image for the fool. What do you guys think. Please notice my choice for aanca and griffin (a bishop with a circle and a rook with a circle).

Got it, now it works like a charm, thanks for your help Kevin!

Fergus, I still have a bit of work on my submissions please don't mind them yet!

For some reason, I don't know what I have done, both the apothecary 1 submission and apothecary 2 submission have the same ID and I can't change one of them. How do I fix that? For now I'm done but I'm not sure, Fergus, that you can see both games. Apothecary chess 1 should have griffin, aanca champions and wizards, and Apothecary chess 2 should have chancellor, archbishop, zebra, camel and elephant. Which one do you see?

An now it's the oher way arround. I, for some reason cannot modify the item id. I world be able to create a new item but this means redoing all the work. See the problem? Just, if you can now, save Apothecary 1 with another ID. and then save apothecary 2 with another ID. I'll try my best from this end!

I think I lost my work with apothecary chess 2, do you still have it?

I guess I upset the gods of chess when I decided to improve on their beloved orthodox variant. :( :(

Fergus,

I don't seems to find my apothecary chess 2 work, have you somehow saved it?

I can't save with the id with apothecary 2 as it gives an erorr.

I am doing the normal process, no trouble yet, when i click send I get an error that says that the specific id is already taken!

I've managed to upload a dummy apothecary chess 2 (empty for know) by changing the id to containing apothecary chess 2 2 and then changing the name back to apothecary chess 2. It works, I'm now working on that one and hope everything will go according to plan. I'd like to take a look on apothecary chess 1 again before you read it so dn't hurry Fergus. Thanks for everything! I apologize for creating this havoc. See you soon!

I have a preliminary upload now for both games, just a moment to do the final checkups and then it's up to your Fergus, and/or other reviewer.

I'm ok now with what I've send. I'm waiting for feedback, with the hope that everything is fine!

Now that I've written the articles with the rules (mostly, they are unreviewed currently but it is the final countdown), I'd like people to play these games (between us I promised a lot of friends the chance for this), I've seen when posting the two articles two other options, create a zillions of games item and create a game courier preset. What are these and how do they work? What do I have to do in order to create games with it? Do they cost any money?

For now ChessV 1 is not an option because of tehnical issues that require a lot of programming, and I cannnot yet work to implement the games in chess V2 as I have to get things going with my knowllege of c#. I only know c++ in which Chess V1 is programmed.

Thanks Nick, maybe I can do it myself, I just need guidance; also the rules have many tricks!

Hello Fergus,

Apothecary Chess 1 should have the description : " Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. ".  as Apothecary Chess 2 has. I cannot change it properly, why?

Thanks, Fergus, it is so kind of you to help with all my shortcomings.

To the editors of this website,

I'm now working on the preset for both apothecaries games, and I'm saving from time to time. Please don't mind my work until I post here that I'm ready. For now the preset is a work in progress.

I need an advice with the game courier preset.

How do I set the random seed, by clock or something, as rand 0 1 always gives me 1?