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Alfaerie Expansion Set 4. More Alfaerie graphics![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Looking at this page, Alfaerie Exp Set 4, no icons is displayed (I use Safari). Either it should be repaired or this page should be removed, if any editor find the time to do so.
And Alfaerie Exp Set 5 gives 404 error. Maybe, it should be simply removed, I understand a cleaner version with SVG is coming.
Maasai Chess. Play Maasai Chess with Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thank you Greg, this works very fine.
I was wondering that maybe the most practical would be to have a table of all SVG Alfaerie, each one defined with 2 letters, which will give 26^2 possibilities, a very confortable number. Then each designer would be able to pick up the ones he needs using a code like the one you posted here.
Maybe it is already your idea, or something similar.
Game Courier Settings Files. Keep track of all the settings files you have written for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would like to delete several entries on my page of Game Courier Setting File:
Zanzibar-S1
Zanzibar-S-prov
Jetan-of-Barsoom
Chess
How can I do that? Thank you
No answer to my question, that I had already asked 5 months ago. There is no possibility? Too bad, I just wanted to clean that page. Thanks.
It was this:
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2020-12-30 CET I would like to delete Zanzibar-S-prov as well
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2020-12-30 CET How to delete a Game Courier Setting file on our own page? I would like to delete "Zanzibar-S1" that I've made and I don't know how. Thanks
Same question that I re-asked few days ago.
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on 2021-05-23 CEST I would like to delete several entries on my page of Game Courier Setting File:
Zanzibar-S1
Zanzibar-S-prov
Jetan-of-Barsoom
Chess
How can I do that? Thank you
If I'm doing something wrong, please tell me. Thank you.
Thank you Fergus
Terachess II. An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Not satisfied when play testing with the Troll, this piece is removed from Terachess II, as well as from Gigachess II, and replaced by the Squirrel, a well known compound piece.
The Game Courier preset modified to play Terachess II is ready but not uploaded yet. Maybe I should wait for the on-going games to finish before uploading it.
Aurelian, the Troll had an awkward move. I had the feeling it is not well in accordance with the other pieces. In actual play it is used very early with its long jump in order to expect an exchange with a more valuable piece, but then it remains a bit useless in the middle. On the opposite, the Squirrel is a compound piece that has a "consistent" pattern, not an artificial one. I mean it is more perceived as a piece jumping all around at the 2nd square, than a sum of Dabbaba+Alfil+kNight. This is well in-line for what I'm looking for in those variants. Tests will say. Maybe I'm wrong.
@Greg: thank you, I hadn't understood that.
In the case where I have already changed the preset but kept the same setting name, does it work if I go back and re-put the old preset? I mean, will that restore the previous game logs?
(Then I will save the new preset under a different setting name)
@Greg: thanks I had done this for Gigachess II, now it's reverted for the old version, and fixed for the new one. I will do this to Terachess II soon.
@Aurelian Would you like to try, maybe on Gigachess II?
Pink Chess. White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Very interesting. Having been working on Parton's works recently, I find this idea quite good. Parton had explored having two K in Twin Chess / Chess Tweedle with a different principle. Both K of one side were both royal, so checkmating the first one was a victory. Here that idea is completely renewed. :=)
Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@HG: would you agree that the chiral Aanca of the Bent Bozos could be renamed Left and Right Manticore now?
Conservative Capablanca Chess. Alternative, more traditional Capablanca chess setup.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I do my best as "historian" for chess variants :=) Although sometimes it's discouraging to see how people care.
In this case, D Paulowich proposed a CV with 2 Chancellors per side, whereas CCC has 1 Chancellor and 1 Archbishop, so it is not the same game. Anyway, Vujacic honestly does not pretend to have created the most original CV.
The idea of preserving the relative setup of standard chess is also at the roots of Shako, https://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/shako.html invented more than 30 years ago. And probably in other CVs too.
Yangsi. A very playable chess variant with 12 different pieces on a 10x10 board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think Heavy Shako would deserve a page of its own.
Maasai Chess. Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would like to change that sentence which is presenting my new game Maasai Chess:
Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including Sergent Maasai as improved Pawns
I wish to write:
Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns
May I do it? Or an editor can do it for me? Thank you
Maasai Chess page and the Game Courier preset can be released. Thanks to editors
Thank you Ben. I modified both pages to fix that.
Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Fergus, in my case it's annoying.
For every page I get a long vertical strip on e-bay announcements, 36 on this page, which oblige me to scroll down a lot before I get the text I want to see.
I use Safari on a Macbook.
It was #2, ads above all text, in a vertical column, on top of the page and on right side. But it doesn't show anymore this morning, I tried few pages, no more problem. You probably fixed it. I see no e-bay adds anymore at all. Thank you.
In wikipedia Fairy chess pieces they are the Osprey for DthenB and the Ostrich for AthenR
Dou Shou Qi: The Battle of Animals - The Jungle Game. Simulated conflict between animal kingdoms. (7x9, Cells: 63) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I came on this page by accident. After so many years, the name of this game is still wrong. It is Doushouqi, not Shou Dou Qi at all. And the comment about jaguar for leopard is absolutely right. The solution to avoid a L is to call this piece a Panther, panther or leopard is the same animal.
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What you say is true HG, it is a fact that different plays will quickly become all different in such a large variant. But so what?
Of course you are free to comment my proposal but I don't see where you want to go.
You argue about the fact that white has an advantage of having the word in saying what is the lineup. I'm still not convinced by your explanations, but I don't want to make a dispute on that. Since my sentence was not a rule and was more a comment, I removed it.
Anyway, advantage or not, I do like the idea of having the freedom to organise the major pieces at wish in the center of the board, even though those pieces are behind lines of pawns. When I play it, it adds some fun: either I choose the line-up or I do the first move. Like in some sports where either you choose the side on the field or the ball to start.
In any case, this game is not finished, and it might continue to evolve according to on-going play testing.