Comments by benr

(I believe Gilman uses that to stand for "nonstandard diagonal", i.e. the usual hex-diagonal, to distinguish it for instance on a 3D board made of hexagonal prisms.)

I like the dummy rating idea too.

The computation seems to skip some ratings; see e.g. Omega Chess which has 8 ratings but only 2 scores on this page.

If you intend for ratings now to only apply to game quality, perhaps you should remove the ability to give a rating in a comment on a non-Game page?

The red in the source seems to be caused by the updated comment display style.  In listcomments.php, comments are completely dealt with by DIV's; in displaycomment.php, there is a stray table surrounding the single comment's DIV.  My source viewer balks at various html codes inside a TABLE but not inside a TD.  That seems to also be causing the header to appear below the comment instead of above (the DIV is floating to the top of the table).

You can still find the rulebook through their site:

http://sirlin.net/s/chess2_rulebook2-4.pdf

I hadn't noticed that the rules page gives the promotion zones as on two levels.  (Or more probably, I had forgotten.  In the comment thread on the rules page this is brought up twice.)  I actually cannot find anything to back up that version; the following all support what I assumed in writing the rules for this preset:

• http://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/555.html
• http://www.chessvariants.com/old.dir/3d5.html
• https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc/225235.pdf
• Dickins's "A Guide to Fairy Chess"

Unless someone knows why two levels were allowed in the rules page, perhaps it should be changed.

(On the other hand, the "forward/up" pawn capture seems to have been intended by Maack; I just didn't allow it in this preset because of personal preference.)

Images seem to be broken.  You can upload images to this site (see the text near the bottom of the page), fixing any issues with Flickr.

Oh, but you resubmitted with new images. I've kept this one hidden in favor of that one. They are the same game, just with different images, right?

Please add your name to your profile.

That video is part of a math series, so she's not so interested in the gameplay. In particular, the specific new rules to force a finite drawless game aren't important. After all, there's little hope to determine who has the winning strategy from the usual starting position.

It seems to not be limited to the URL; category changes aren't registering on a test page.  I'm looking into it.

EDIT: I think I've fixed it. Fergus, could you look over the things I commented out from membersubmission2.php to make sure they aren't needed elsewhere?

The Piececlopedia is for well-established pieces, usually appearing in more than one person's games/problems.  We have separate Piece Articles for newer, more experimental, more niche pieces, but this means the Piececlopedia is not often updated.

If you have the Word document still, give the "Paste from Word" option in CKEditor a try. Otherwise, Fergus, do we have a database backup that would have the old version of this page around? (I did insert a few linebreaks and removed a pre tag so the page fits on screen for now.)

I agree with Fergus that probably the problem occurred when you edited the page: CKEditor doesn't play well with the old "no html" format. I think, if you do not click the "Source" button in CKEditor, everything is fine except that empty lines get swallowed, breaking any paragraph structure you had. (Regular linebreaks are preserved.) I looked for a little while to see how to fix this, but didn't find anything right away. Fergus, could you also look?

As a temporary workaround, if you need to edit any non-html pages, you can disable javascript in your browser, which will kill CKEditor and leave you with the old style textarea. (Or can you disable just the CKEditor js?)

Jc: no.  This is covered in #3 of the second question, "When are you not allowed to castle?".

This often doesn't work for me; I'd guess that /game/{itemid} URLs aren't forwarded(?) properly for member submitted pages.

A beautiful spherical board for cylindrical chess:
http://makezine.com/2017/04/13/playing-chess-on-a-globe/

(Test edit; I can't edit this using the ordinary user edit script, but can using the editor script. An error in the new Session scripts?)

I can't edit MS index information, some session problem.  I get the message
"You are not logged in as an editor, and cannot make changes here.Session:"

I can however edit (as editor) comments...

I've edited the footer to include a link to the comment listing when on mobile.

Here's a first try at a graphical board:

I edited Graeme's image from a comment in Aug. 2010 to be in the shape of your board.  I didn't work very long to make it look nice, then uploaded it into the appropriate directory.   The values in NextRank (attempt to) align the piece positions with the pentagons.  In GameCourier, using CSS layout actually makes everything line up correctly, but using image layouts (which is forced in the DiagramDesigner) tries to tile the background image and/or doesn't space the pieces correctly.   Per the Developer Guide, 

Your choice of background image affects the width and height of spaces. These are normally determined by which piece set you choose, but when you choose a background image, its values for width and height override other values. If you upload any new images to the backgrounds/ directory, you should contact me (Fergus Duniho) if its cell dimensions are not the default of 50 pixels by 50 pixels or if two asymmetrical images need to be paired together. 

I added an extra space into the sql command in the indexing function table_row, in order to fix an error in the zillions.php pages.  It has fixed those pages, and I wouldn't expect an extra whitespace to cause other problems, but I'm making note of it here just in case.