Comments by carlos

thanks, i sent you email fergus.

i have two questions about rules i am not completely certain on.

1/ can a pincer pawn capture more than one piece (in one direction)?  e.g.
if there is a friendly piece on f4, and enemy pieces on f2 and f3, can a
pawn move to f1 and capture both?  i think this is unlikely, but i want to
check.

2/ can withdrawers capture by moving away on the diagonal from an enemy
piece?  e.g. enemy on g5, can a withdrawer capture it by moving from f4 to
e3?

thanks.

could someone check out my game with Laila and advise on the situation - my
interpretation is that a move made on the mirror board will send you back
to the original board.  laila thinks opposite, that once on the mirror
board you stay there.

i have already misunderstood this game once, so i am probably wrong
again.

a couple more questions.

1.  can a king take by co-ordinating with the co-ordinator, or does it
have to be after the co-ordinator's moves?
2.  i assume that a king cannot move into check, and you have to tell your
opponent if they do?  i was playing against the applet linked off this
page, and you have to actually capture the king rather than checkmate it. 
which is it?  

if white's co-ordinator is on f1, white's king on b1, and black's king
moves onto say b7 from the c file...  if the white co-ordinator has a
clear run to f7, is black's move therefore illegal?

can i assume that:

1. a bridge builder can move onto a bridge, and from there add/remove
adjacent bridges? 

2. a bridge builder can cross a bridge, and from there add/remove bridges
to the river on the 3 squares 'behind' him?

fergus, i sent you an email a while ago saying that i didn't jot down the
payment details before you removed them from the site.  did you get my
email?

anyone care to comment on rule 2.3.  roberto has just implemented it in our
game.

'insert his cage (with any contents) orthogonally into the board,
shifting the other cells in line until a cage appears at the opposite edge
(which must have been empty).'

when i first read the rules i thought that the opposite edge which should
be empty meant the square that was to be pushed out.  roberto obviously
took it to mean simply that the other cage couldn't be at the end of that
row or column (see our current game).  on second reading, i am inclined to
agree with him, although the wording is pretty ambiguous... the example
doesn't clear things up either.  anyone know/have an opinion?

another thing is the 'shifting the other cells in line' part... taken
literally this seems to mean that the whole cells (not just their
contents) get pushed along.  this would make things interesting for
bishops!  what was the intention here?

cool game.  

as far as i can see, the rules don't clarify whether either a ship or a
crewman/crewmen can move through annoying empty ships.  what's the go?

thanks to fergus for a brilliant tournament.

congratulations to antoine, roberto and fergus.
.
i too had a great time.  i certainly enjoyed some games more than others
and hope to play them many more times - in particular i enjoyed
familiarising myself (to varying degrees) with ultima, pocket mutation,
grand chess, eurasian chess and takeover chess.  games i have to say i
didn't enjoy were cavalier and hexagonal chess, although perhaps both
might seem better if i played them a few more times.

the only unfortunate thing was that a number of my games were decided one
way or the other by whopping blunders.  i guess that is bound to happen
with games we are fairly unfamiliar with.

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i can't seem to access this log either.

count me in.

i'll figure out a way to pay in the next week or two.  it's new years
week here at the moment.  i still have to pay for last time as well.

a couple questions:

a standard chess set means one bishop of each color right?  i can't
choose to have two white-square bishops?

the rules don't say anything about captured bario pieces.  if one of my
undefined pieces is captured should i immediately define it?  or can i
wait?