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NOTE TO JEREMY: I still believe your TenCubed Chess preset needs to be adjusted. Most presets require Sides: White Black and Side: White. The Shogi preset reverses these settings, because Black moves first in Shogi. My email address will change in a week, so I have been avoiding correspondence lately.

And as long as you are working in that preset, I think that the dark squares would look better with Colors: FFFFFF 888888 - but I can always use a custom setting for my own viewing.

Test comment. My session was not being recognized on play.chessvariants.com, but the comment link led to chessvariants.com, where it is working.

Hello,

i'm putting my comment here, because i can't get through to the editors via e-mail.

I recently created two new rule enforcing presets for Mini Shogi and Judkin's Shogi and wanted to add them to the game courier game page, to make it possible for others to play them.

you can find them here:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Minishogi&settings=default

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Judkin%27s+Shogi&settings=default

hopefully one of the editors reads this comment and can put them there, because the actual presets are bad or not working at all.

Sincerely,

Armin Liebhart (lunaris)

Thanks Armin!

I've added links to the settings files on the respective Preset pages:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/minishogi
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/judkins-shogi

(I've forgotten the convention about Inventors of Preset pages...the preset author or the game inventor?  Fergus, Greg, Joe?)

Judkin's original settings file doesn't appear to actually be different from the Chess one, so perhaps it should be deleted.

Pages have authors, not inventors. Someone who programs a preset counts as an author. The inventor exclusively refers to the game inventor.

Thank you very much Ben,

one little note though, it appears that on the minishogi page it is not possible to choose my version, it's visible but i cannot click on the image, only on the button, which leads to the old version.

however it's possible to get to the mini shogi preset via judkin's shogi.

cheers,

Armin

That's strange.  The button sends me to the correct settings according to the URL ("default") but the displayed image is that of the old settings ("Minishogi").  If I click Play or Move it takes me to the correct settings after all.

Maybe this is related to the cache issue we've had on other page types?

Hello. I can't find Metamachy on Game Courier. Has it been removed?

Here it is:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Metamachy&settings=default

Looks like we never made a Game Courier launch page for it so it is not in the index. I will take care of that.

Thank you very much

Just a reminder if someone could make that Metamachy is visible among the game playable. Thanks a lot

You're welcome. Thank you for your patience. I have posted a Metamachy GC launch page.

I have developed GC for the series of my games:

Zanzibar-S

Zanzibar-XL

Teramachy

Gigachess II

Terachess II

How can they get a link in this GC table in order to let people play them? Is it something I can do myself?

How can they get a link in this GC table in order to let people play them? Is it something I can do myself?

Yes, you can do it yourself. Create an individual webpage for each one. There are scripts for letting members create new pages. Look in the menu.

OK but it is not clear to me.

Step 1 is OK

Step 2 asked to put description and link. OK, where I put the link? Which description? The one I already put on the page describing the preset? It is not clear, I don't understand what I do.

For instance for this preset: https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Teramachy&settings=Default-Alternate

How can I publish it for everyone? Thanks

Step 2 asked to put description and link.

This is where you write the content of the page in HTML. So far, you have a bare link as raw text and a description of the rules. The purpose of such a page is to provide an indexed launch page for the preset. These typically include an illustration of the preset, a link to the preset, and a brief description of the preset. This page does not need to include the rules of the game. That's what the Rules page and the rules description within the preset are for. Since you have made other pages, I expect you know how to write HTML. Take a look at Hex Shogi 91 Preset for Game Courier for an example of what a typical preset page should look like.

OK I understand. Shall I mention to report any bug to you or to me? Thank you again for your time and your patience

Shall I mention to report any bug to you or to me?

If you mention it at all, it should be to the author of the preset, which would be you. But it's not necessary to mention it.