Comments by j_carrillo_vii

Fergus,

What I meant to say was, use the Chinese characters as an option for the
Piece Set that the players are allowed to use.

For example, I don't have a Korean Chess set, but use a Chinese Chess set
when I play Korean Chess over the board with my friends. We ignore that the
river is there and voila!

If I had the Piece Set choice, I definitely use the Chinese Chess set, as
it was hard enough for me to learn the Chinese Characters in the first
place (I'm Spanish). My oponents could choose to display the Korean
characters, and I would use the Chinese, but we could still play each
other and enjoy a game right away.

Of course, if there is no choice, I would learn the Korean characters as
well.

You could also give as another choice the westernized characters in your
Korean Chess rules webpage, for those that do not know Korean or Chinese
characters, and want to try out Korean Chess. This way I'm sure you would
get a lot more westerner players to enjoy the game.

It was just a suggestion.

Jose

Thanks Joe.

We can work around for checking our turn to move.

But how about new memberships?

Can someone reset the password of my friend pleyades21 so that he can start playing in CV?

The email systems is working again! I received a move notification today!

Great!!! Thanks!

Thanks Antoine.

= = =

I just received today in the mail an original Spanish copy of Gabriel Vicente Maura's 1973 3rd edition 'Mathematical Thesis for Modern Chess including the Prime Minister'!!!

I found it in a Library of Antique Books in Madrid, Spain.

Nice little book (it's only 48 pages long).

It has Gabriel Vicente Maura's 'mathematical' explanation of why the chess board needed to be increased in size to 9x9, why a new powerful piece needed to be added to the game, and why that piece needed to be a Prime Minister (Bishop + Knight).

Interesting 'mathematical' theory.

I'll digest it first, and post a summary of his theory.

BTW. The book confirms the Bishop Castling rule as I've described before. 

The rule is actually called the 'Bishop Adjustment' rule.

In the true nature of Modern Chess, Maura believed the game was better to be played with both Bishops on the dark squares.

But he left the possibility open for players that couldn't let go (of having Bishops in opposite colors).

I'm working on the code for two new presets for Chess Courier for randomized variants for Modern Chess:

Modern Random Chess and Modern Fischer Random Chess

I'm trying to reuse some of the code already done for Fischer Random Chess, and found a statement that is too specific in the fischer.txt include file, that prevents this include file to be general enough to be used for 9x9 variants.

In the subroutine to evaluate actual moves by the Black Rook, in the elseif statement there is a reference to a physical coordinate (f8), rather than to a label (#roo):

sub r from to;
  set legal fn R #from #to;
  if not var legal or == old k:
    if == #to #rooo:
      castle #k #kooo #from #rooo;
      set k #kooo;
    elseif == #to f8:
      castle #k #koo #from #roo;
      set k #koo;
    endif;
  endif;
  unsetflag #from;
endsub;

The same is not the case for the subroutine for evaluating actual moves by the White Rook:

sub R from to;
  set legal fn R #from #to;
  if not var legal or == old K:
    if == #to #ROOO:
      castle #K #KOOO #from #ROOO;
      set K #KOOO;
    elseif == #to #ROO:
      castle #K #KOO #from #ROO;
      set K #KOO;
    endif;
  endif;
  unsetflag #from;
endsub;

Here the elseif has a #ROO label that allows this subroutine to be general enough to work for a 9x9 chess variant.

Can someone update the subroutine for black in fischer.txt to have the label #roo instead of f8?

Second question, how do I upload a new file into the include library?

I'm working on the code for a new modern-adjustment.txt file that will be general enough to provide for my new Bishop Adjustment in the randomized versions I'm working on, as well as for the Bishop Commuting found in the modern.txt include file.

Thanks.

Thanks Antoine!

Can you update the Modern Chess webpage to include the 'Bishop's Adjustment' rule?

http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/modern.html

Below is my English interpretation of the rule, which appears in Spanish on page 32 of Gabriel Maura's 1973 'Tesis Matematica del Ajedrez Moderno' (Mathematical Thesis for Modern Chess):

==

The Bishop Adjustment Rule

It consists in exchanging the square of one of the Bishops with either of the adjacent major pieces - the Queen or the Queen's Knight on the right, or the Minister or Minister's Knight to the left - as long as neither of the pieces being exchanged has been moved from its original square.

The player would have four ways to do the adjustment, but he is only allowed to do it one time throughout the game, if he wishes to. This adjustment counts as a move, just like castling. The notation for it is: B=MN (example for the adjustment with the Minister's Knight).

Thanks for updating the Modern Chess page with the Bishop Adjustment rule.

I found two typos.

1. The notation for the Bishop and Minister's Knight example is actually
B=MN (I made a mistake before with B=MK).

2. The international organization created that arranged tournaments and
world championships for Modern Chess was FEMDAM. (not FENDAM as Pritchard
incorrently quotes in his book).

FEMDAM = FEderacion Mundial De Ajedrez Moderno

which is Spanish for 'World Federation of Modern Chess'

Can someone please update the two typos in the Modern Chess page? 

http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/modern.html

[All fixed, I think. DH] [Yes. Thanks. JC]