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Play Metamachy on Game Courier. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 06:32 PM EST:

I've tried to play against myself. I place 1 of the 4 central piece, but when I place the 2nd one, I get a message of error. Is that preset bugged?

💡Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 01:36 PM EST:

Thanks for taking care of this.

I'm not able to understand, and I confess I'm a bit lost because I have never programmed with that code.

As author what I just would like is that the player making the choice of the central setup is not the one playing the first actual move.

Would it help if Black was placing his 4 central piece, then the situation is replicated on White's side.

Then Black (automatically?) pass his first move, then White plays the second move, which is actually the first as Black has just passed?

The birth of 3 new variants - part 2 : Grand Apothecary Chess Modern[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 01:45 PM EST:

Aurelian you can find them on Wikipedia is that is your question.

The Kirin/Kyrin, or Qilin, is a chinese/japanese monster (haven't you ever drunk a Kirin beer?). Some think that this monster could have been inspired by a giraffe seen by early Chinese navigators.

Like the Aanca/Anka/Anqa could have been inspired by the Aepyornis of Madagascar. The Phoenix is also a monster giant bird, a kind of Greek version of the Persian Anqa. Again, a different beast than the Gryphon/Griffin whatever Murray said :=)

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 01:48 PM EST:

By the way, both Kirin and Phoenix have an accepted usage from Chu Shogi, it would be a pity to assign them other moves.

Kirin= FD Phoenix= WA

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 04:11 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 02:07 PM:

OK, sorry

Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess (2001).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 07:35 AM EST:

Presenting Gigachess II on chessvariants website

Terachess II. An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 01:14 PM EST:

At last, presenting Terachess II on the CVPs.

Teramachy. A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 01:15 PM EST:

Teramachy presented to the CVPs.

Play Metamachy on Game Courier. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Dec 21, 2020 06:35 AM EST:

Hello Fergus

The bug is also affecting my log: timurthelenk-numerist-2020-328-848

I (Timurthelenk) had white. Numerist resigned and was declared winner. Thanks a lot

💡Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Dec 21, 2020 02:26 PM EST:

Thanks a lot. I'm going to start a new game.

Very Heavy Chess. A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 02:32 PM EST:

Very Heavy Chess is ready

Heavy Chess. A high-density chess-variant-variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 02:32 PM EST:

Heavy Chess is ready

Terachess II. An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 02:33 PM EST:

Terachess II is ready

Teramachy. A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 02:33 PM EST:

Teramachy is ready

Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess (2001).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 02:35 PM EST:

Gigachess II is ready

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 04:22 PM EST:

Thank you. A mistake in the chess board painting tool. It's corrected now.

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 02:05 AM EST:

Very good. Thanks a lot for your reactivity and help.

Piece Value and Classification[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 12:01 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 08:54 AM:

HG, do you think that a Cannon in a different context than XQ and its special board, for instance in Shako, can be worth than that? I wonder.

Zillions (I know that you don't like their estimate, and you're probably right) is estimating the Cannon just slightly below the Rook, and the Vao just below the Bishop. I also think this is overestimating. But how far?

In Shako or in Metamachy, the Cannon are still powerful pieces putting a lot of pressure on the columns they control.

Editing old contributions[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 12:35 PM EST:

I would like to be able to edit old contributions I had made years ago, in the Hans B's years.

Or for some of them, even delete them. I'm thinking of very early ones (proto-chess, proto-xiangqi) which do not correspond at all today to something I would say. Is it possible?

Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 01:26 PM EST:

I have tried to make a Game Courier preset for my first time ever. I did it for Heavy Chess because it is easier as I borrowed almost everything to Kevin. I hope I did nothing wrong, if I did please forgive me.

Proto-Chaturanga. A seminal so-called "indo-persian" game with only King and Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 01:46 PM EST:

Please delete this old page

Proto-Xiang-Qi. A seminal so-called "chinese" game with the minimal configuration. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 01:46 PM EST:

Please delete this old page

Very Heavy Chess. A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 01:54 PM EST in reply to Kevin Pacey from 01:46 PM:

I think we are a bit attracted by the same concepts. Very Heavy Chess is maybe really too much and at the end boring. First tries I made with ZoG didn't show that but time will tell. Using compounds of FIDE pieces is also a direction I had in mind for my family of CV beyond Metamachy and Zanzibar.

Editing old contributions[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Dec 23, 2020 01:57 PM EST:

Thank you Greg. I would like to revise the text of Toulousain Chess and Perfect12. Maybe I can try the HTML, I do it for my own website.

Proto-Xiang-Qi. A seminal so-called "chinese" game with the minimal configuration. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]