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hmm, it has been around 6 days since joe joyce has done anything, we are
playing a game, and he is playing other people too.
normally if we are playing, and he is going somewhere and won't be moving
for awhile, he will say something, so i am a bit concerned for him.
anyone have any info about him?

I noticed a display problem in Jeremy Good's current game of Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Black's two square Wall does not show up. Also the square contains the notation 'y%3B d9', instead of 'z d9', which is what I would expect.

In fact, there are currently two presets for Chess on a Longer Board.
Neither prevents check (because it would take more than 30 seconds at the
end of a game), and both use pre-moves and post-moves by the second player
to display the Wall half-correctly. One of these presets also verifies the
legality of the moves, performs baroque (Withdrawer or en passant)
capture, moves automatically the other part of a Wall and changes
automatically the Halfling-Bishop in a Halfling-Rook and vice-versa.
So both presets, although different, display the same following message:
'This preset does not notify you here of check, checkmate, or
stalemate.'
Which is why I thought the same presets were used in my game against
George Duke and in this game.
I've replaced lines such as
$preauto2 = 'convert all Y Z Z Y y z z y%3B'; 
by lines such as 
$preauto2 = 'convert all Y Z Z Y y z z y';
in both the relevant preset and the log file.
I guess I'll try Fergus' solution when I have some time.

My reason for using the URL to tweak settings is that I make copious use of bookmarks, so that I can get to any game with just a few keystrokes. And if I want to use the positions from my games as desktop backgrounds, this is most easily done if I can construct a URL that produces an image using my preferred piece set and the appropriate orientation. I've done this happily for many of the games I've played via Game Courier, but I can't do it for a game of chess. I can look at the board from Black's side, or I can use the Alfaerie pieces, but for some reason I can't do both.

Here's what is going on. Some presets use the default values, and some do
not. This is not about which game a preset is for; it is about which
preset you are using for a game. Default values are stored in a settings
file, and when a log uses the default values, it does not store them in
the log. All it stores are the variables whose values differ from their
default values. So, when you change the set in the URL for a log that uses
the default set, it does not overwrite this with anything in the log,
because the log does not contain any value for the set. But when the log
does not use the default set, it overwrites the value given in the URL
with the value stored in the log.

In the two Chess URLs you gave, you included your userid in the one that
showed Alfaerie pieces. It showed Alfaerie pieces, because you customized
your viewing preferences, and it was using the set you had chosen to use.
This value is stored in the log and will overwrite anything in the URL.
The other URL did not include your userid. So it used the set given in the
log. Since the Chess presets are based on one that uses Alfaerie pieces on
a B&W marble board, and you were using a preset with Abstract pieces on a
table board, the log for this game changes some of the defaults. These
overwrite the values set in the URL.

Okay, I think I understand now.  I had been thinking of the Abstract piece
set as the default, not realizing that it was in fact a setting which had
overridden a previous default.  So it makes sense that I can't override
it in the URL, especially now that I've gone and learned a bit about the
GET and POST methods of form submission.

Here's a related thought (related from a user's perspective, anyway). 
When I enter my userid and view a game in which it is my opponent's turn,
the board is displayed, along with a message saying 'It is not your turn
yet', etc.  But the board is shown from my opponent's perspective. 
(Actually, a quick check of my current games seems to indicate that it is
shown from the perspective of the player to move [i.e. my opponent] in
Chess and Xiangqi, but from the perspective of the first [Black] player in
Shogi.)  Perhaps it would be more user-friendly if specifying a userid
ensured that the board would be shown from that player's perspective.

This preset will enforce rules and spot check, checkmate, and stalemate.you may not move a k from d6 to d5

But if I attempt d6-d7, there is no problem with the preset.

came up when I tried to open several of the games here. Just now my Lions and Unicorns game showed a board diagram, with this message below;

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/chessva/public_html/play/pbm/form_move.php on line 45

I have won in the match
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Chess+with+Different+Armies&log=pallab-cvgameroom-2006-58-982.
But the log is showing my opponent as a winner. I have made a mistake by
sending a comment after the game is over. How to make it correct?.