Check out Smess, our featured variant for February, 2025.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 24, 2020 09:54 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Aug 22 06:50 AM:

More serious is that when I try to play a distant Lion move beyond the Pawn (e.g. l d6-e4) it does not immediately accept the move, but still wants me to choose between the simple move and "l d6-e5; l e5-e4", highlighting both e4 and e5 to make that choice. This is a consequence of the "any order" policy, rather than using the order of entry of clicks 2 and 3 to distinguish between the shooter and the multi-mover case.

For me that issue is still important enough to prefer my own adaptation of the JavaScript.

I had a different issue with the any order mechanism for selecting moves. When I clicked on one of my own pieces in Fusion Chess, it would show both that piece's moves and any fusion moves to that space by another piece. This could be confusing, and I decided it would be better to just show the moves for the piece clicked on. To accomplish this, I rewrote showLegal() to require that the steps of a move be entered in order. When the same space is clicked twice, this signals that moves with more steps should not be accepted, and that the move's final destination must be the space that was clicked on again. This is useful for selecting a shorter move from longer continuations of the same move or for selecting a move that returns to its origin.

Since this would not work properly with moving pieces by clicking on the destination first, I removed that capability. It will now only show where the piece clicked on can move to. It will no longer show which pieces can move to a particular space.


Edit Form

Comment on the page Game Courier Developer's Guide

Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.