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Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Thu, May 1, 2014 01:27 AM UTC:

OK. Thanks.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sat, May 3, 2014 01:17 AM UTC:

Not entirely because on each turn the names of the players change alternately between White and Black.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, May 4, 2014 11:29 AM UTC:

Great! We can now easily review again the large number of games of the GC database.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Wed, May 7, 2014 12:38 PM UTC:

Sorry, Fergus, but still remains a bug with some logs. Player names appear inverted at least in these three ones:

gyw6t-makov333-2014-124-270

hardtdavid-j_carrillo_vii-2014-118-902

shatteredglass-sissa-2014-69-733

Carlos Cetina wrote on Wed, May 7, 2014 05:14 PM UTC:

Yes, the three logs are already working rightly; but now this other has the same problem: shatteredglass-sissa-2014-69-754.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Thu, May 8, 2014 09:58 AM UTC:

Everything is working rightly now. Thanks!

Carlos Cetina wrote on Wed, May 28, 2014 04:58 PM UTC:

Again all the logs can not be reviewed since the position skips directly from the starting setup to the last move made.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, May 30, 2014 07:35 PM UTC:

OK. It's now working correctly. 

There is another problem that happens only with randomized variants when one wants to print any entire game; only the final position is showed; it's impossible to review the game because one does not know what was the starting setup. Would there be any way to include both diagrams at once?

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sat, May 31, 2014 12:55 PM UTC:

True, I did not express the idea correctly.

The point is that in random variants is important to know the starting setup if you want to review a game OTB reading the moves directly from a paper sheet; in variants whose starting setup is always the same it is not so important that this position be recorded.

Ideally it would be nice that when you click PRINT both positions be recorded: the starting and the current. It's understood that normally you will print finished games.

By the way, there is a lot of Fischer Random Chess logs broken with messages such as "ILLEGAL: N c1-b3 on turn 3: There was no N on c1. The piece on c1 is a K. Go back and try again." [j_carrillo_vii-fergus-2004-138-495]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, Jun 1, 2014 12:10 PM UTC:

OK, with that is sufficient.

Regarding the broken Fischer Random Chess logs, they are 78; only 19 are OK. If they can not be recovered, maybe they should be deleted. Hard decision.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, Jun 1, 2014 03:40 PM UTC:

Sounds good the idea; if it works, perhaps I could use it for recovering the broken logs of my random variants which are in total 26.

By the way, I have in mind to invite Garry Kasparov to join this community of CVs fans for playing a game with me of either Symmetric Chess or Cetran Chess 2; then it would be useful, convenient, the presets of these variants to have enforced theirs rules. 

Could you, please, help me to do it? The key things that I don't know is how to code the Bishops Conversion Rule and the Sissa movement rule.

I am very excited since if he accepts, it would be a historic event: the first former World Champion Chess that would play here at The Hall of the Chess Variants!

Open Letter to Garry Kasparov[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sat, Jun 7, 2014 12:16 PM UTC:

Thanks Joseph, I have just done the correction.

Sissa. Move exists of moving a number of squares as rook and an equal number of squares as bishop.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡Carlos Cetina wrote on Wed, Jun 18, 2014 05:06 PM UTC:

I want to emphasize that when initially conceived this piece in 1983 in the context of the Coherent Chess, did not give it any particular name; it was until 1998 when I named it as Sissa.

AnandvCarlsen13[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2014 02:33 PM UTC:

Lopota GP, Rd 1: Top women meet in Georgia

Cetran Chess 2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, Aug 24, 2014 04:11 PM UTC:

TOURNAMENT

players

start date

format

file name

Cameron Miles
Gary Gifford
Jeremy Good
Joe Joyce
Sagi Gabay
Carlos Cetina

Aug 23/2014

double round robin

150 days spare time

every games starting from a same asymmetric setup

1stcetran2tourney

SETUP

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Mon, Sep 8, 2014 01:17 PM UTC:

GAMES

		Cameron Miles	Jeremy Good	Carlos Cetina	Gary Gifford	Joe Joyce	Sagi Gabay	Score
1	Cameron Miles	XXX	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	9.5/10
2	Jeremy Good	0 - 1	XXX	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	8/10
3	Carlos Cetina	1/2 - 1/2	0 - 1	XXX	1 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 0	6.5/10
4	Gary Gifford	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	XXX	1 - 0	1 - 0	4/10
5	Joe Joyce	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	XXX	1 - 0	2/10
6	Sagi Gabay	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	0 - 1	XXX	0/10

Nachtmahr. Game with seven different kinds of Nightriders. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2014 04:32 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Thank you, Jörg. I did not know the Jelliss' writing "Theory of Journeys". I will study it carefully.

We can get a first approach to the relative strength of these nightriders by placing them on the central square (g7) of a 13x13 board and counting the number of squares affected/checked from there.

Doing it, we would find these results:

NN11	Diagonal Wide Crooked Nightrider	56
NN02	Straight Wide Crooked Nightrider	36
NN31	Quintessence	36
NN00	Rose	32
NN33	Diagonal Narrow Crooked Nightrider	24
NN21	Standard Nightrider	24
NN04	Straight Narrow Crooked Nightrider	20

Hence, the following equivalences should be near to be true:

NN11 = NN00 + NN33 = NN00 + NN21 = NN31 + NN04 = NN02 + NN04

Universal Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Mon, Sep 22, 2014 03:32 PM UTC:

Yes, of course, post the prototypes here, Jeremy. 

Not only the description about cannon pawns talks about edge squares but all Rococo's ones. In the rules section I wrote: 

"Rococo's pieces [chameleon, long leaper, swapper, withdrawer, advancer, immobilizer and cannon pawns] are subject of the pertinent adecuation to an 8x8 board, that is, it will be supposed that the game is played on a 6x6 board and, in consequence, the board's edge would be formed by "a" and "h" columns, and 1st and 8th rows."

I have always seen the disjunctive whether to apply Rococo's "edge conditions" or not here in this variant as a minor issue that players could resolve by mutual agreement before a game. In contrast, find two people interested in playing Universal Chess is certainly a huge, giant, colossal problem! 

I appreciate very much your contribution of designing piece icons. To keep adding more pieces to this variant, the main task to be done is standardize the various piece sets into one: the Alfaerie-many.

Fugue. Based on Ultima and Rococo this game has pieces that capture in unusual ways. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 03:06 PM UTC:

Swear I'm relaxed.

The Jeremy's last question, "In the current position of the game I cite, can the cannon pawns on e2 and a2 be seen as spotting the piece on c4?", has not been explicitly answered.

The current position cited is this:

The rule should reflect the real situation of an archer trying to hit the target when the victim is located at longer distances and needs help for focusing the shot, hence the role of the spotter.

The following diagram shows how I understand the matter.

Red circles indicate all the possible short range captures.
White circles indicate the possible positions from which the spotter would fulfill its role.
Green circles indicate positions from which any white piece [archer's friendly] would not fulfill the spotting role.

But this is only a personal interpretation and I'm, of course, willing to abide Michael's statement.

Universal Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Tue, Nov 4, 2014 03:46 PM UTC:

Which option you think would be the best? I am willing to play according to your taste.

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Nov 7, 2014 03:12 PM UTC:

Originally envisioned drops after moves and also lean for this option, so let's follow playing that way.

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Tue, Nov 11, 2014 04:17 PM UTC:

The Colorbound Conversion Rule seems to me nice, so let's apply it immediately at our bold adventure of exploring this utopian (crazy?) variant. Thanks for the idea!

Seirawan Chess. Normal rules, except two extra pieces can be introduced: Hawk and Elephant (with zrf).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sat, Jan 10, 2015 05:12 PM UTC:

When castling players should have 7 choices:

1) Drop Chancellor on e1/e8
2) Drop Chancellor on h1/h8
3) Drop Archbishop on e1/e8
4) Drop Archbishop on h1/h8
5) Drop Chancellor on e1/e8 and Archbishop on h1/h8
6) Drop Archbishop on e1/e8 and Chancellor on h1/h8
7) Not to drop neither

So, Mats, I suggest you to introduce the two extra choices in the preset codification.

Cetran Chess 2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Mar 20, 2015 12:48 AM UTC:

Congratulations, Cameron, on having won the tournament. 

If Jeremy is willing to continue playing, I could edit the special preset. He also could edit it and send to you the respective invite.

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Mar 20, 2015 05:20 PM UTC:

Thanks, Jeremy, for your concepts. Thanks also to all participants in the event.

In case you and Cameron want to continue the out-timed game, here is the special preset.

I will email you to define details on next tournaments.

Given that we have not heard anything from Joe, I express my deepest desire that he be in good health.

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