Check out Makruk (Thai Chess), our featured variant for March, 2025.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jan 11, 2024 02:16 PM EST:

Since Kevin Pacey was having problems with a preset he generated with this applet, and I have never tried to generate a preset with it before, I generated one as a test to see what I would get, and I saw this in the generated code:

set mypieces assoc
  P "wpawn.png" p "bpawn.png"
  K "wking.png" k "bking.png"
  G "wwildebeest.png" g "bwildebeest.png"
  H "wbird.png" h "bbird.png"
  S "wsquirrel.png" s "bsquirrel.png"
  C "wchampion.png" c "bchampion.png";
setsystem dir "/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG35/";
setsystem pieces #mypieces;

I strongly recommend against including code like this. Instead of this, I would recommend using one of the auto sets or a complete enough set, then adding aliases for any piece whose notation does not match the label provided by the set. The auto sets would be useful for this, because the auto labels, being based on piece names, are easy enough to calculate. In this case, you would want to use the auto-alfaeriePNG35 set with code like this:

alias 
P PAWN p pawn 
K KING k king 
G WILDEBEEST g wildebeest 
H BIRD h bird 
S SQUIRREL s squirrel
C CHAMPION c champion;

Also, the FEN was inaccurate. It gave me this: 4k55K3.

As you can see, it omitted every piece except the King. Using an auto set, you could correctly calculate the FEN. In this case, it would be something like this:

{bird}{wildebeest}{squirrel}{champion}{king}{squirrel}{wildebeest}{bird}{pawn}{pawn}{pawn}{pawn}{pawn}{pawn}{pawn}32{PAWN}{PAWN}{PAWN}{PAWN}{PAWN}{PAWN}{PAWN}{BIRD}{WILDEBEEST}{SQUIRREL}{CHAMPION}{KING}{SQUIRREL}{WILDEBEEST}{BIRD}


Edit Form

Comment on the page Play-test applet for chess variants

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.