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I'm having trouble playing my games with you, Carlos. I managed to play my first move at Sac Chess, but not my second move after receiving your reply. I encountered the same problem as I had in our game of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess right away, in that I had no way made available to me to move (or Preview a move). I switched my browser to Firefox in attempting to shed the problem, and had trouble even visiting this website for a short while (maybe it was just down?). Now I'm back, but my troubles playing haven't gone away after switching browsers. Perhaps Fergus can help. Fwiw, I sent Fergus the following email, while I still could not yet visit this website again:

"Hello Fergus
 
I made my first move with White against Carlos in my Sac Chess game with him. I tried to make my first move as White against Carlos in our game of Glinski’s Hexagonal Chess, but was unable to because unlike for the Sac Chess game log webpage, many options were not presented to me on this game’s Game Courier log webpage, including a space to enter my move, or a button to Preview a given move I’d make. Figuring the problem was with my old browser, I finally decided to switch browsers in an attempt to shed the problem, clicking on Firefox (a suggested browser option on the webpage of my Hexagonal game). After I managed to download Firefox and set up a Firefox account, I was able to use Firefox to get to any number of my Favourite websites successfully using Firefox as my browser, except when I tried to visit The Chess Variant Pages I was not successful, in that a message appeared saying “502 Bad Gateway” and below that was “nginx” as well. Please let me know if the website is down (or whether I might have done something wrong), and pass on to Carlos that I am having trouble continuing to play our games, especially if he is not having trouble seeing The Chess Variant Pages website too (I received his reply with Black to my first move in the Sac Chess game, but clicking on the link also showed the Bad Gateway message.
 
Yours truly, Kevin"

[edit: on the bright side, the problem I had viewing the Berolina Pawn webpage (or unfavouriting it if I wish to) has disappeared.]

Sorry for your troubles. The website is working fine and it has not had any downtime. Hope they will be resolved soon.

I have made it a bit easier to move if you make a wrong turn. There is now a button in View mode for going to a form for making a move. But what you should normally do is this. Go to the Logs page, enter your userid and submit the form, then you will see the games you can move in, and for the games you are already playing, the link will bear your name. Click on your name for a particular game, and you will be brought to the form for making a move.

After going out this evening, I have returned and succeeded in making my second move in my Sac Chess game, and my first move in my Glinski's Hexagonal Chess game. Thanks Fergus. 

A question to Carlos is, for the Hexagonal Chess variant that we are playing, namely "Glinski's Hexagonal Chess (Symmetric)", is the only difference between it and Glinski's (original) Hexagonal Chess game that the start position is different, that is that there are two queens per side used instead of one queen? 

I did not see any rules given when I looked up the webpage for "Glinski's Hexagonal Chess (Symmetric)", in the big listing of games found on The Chess Variant Pages, so I have assumed (so far) that the basic rules are indeed the same for both the original & Symmetric versions.

Yes, the only difference is that there are two queens per side instead of one. I have already fixed the bug on the link to the ruleset page.

The textarea in Edit mode that it titled "Rules, Written in HTML for Players to Read:" should be used to provide a brief description of the rules that players can consult without looking at the rules page. It should not be used simply for providing a link to the rules page. There is already a Rules URL field for that.

Fergus:

The following log has a strange glitch because the page doesn't load completely and I can't make my move. Could you please take a look at it?

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Sac+Chess&log=panther-cvgameroom-2020-231-152

I don't think my computer or the browser I use has anything to do with it.

It loaded instantly for me.

I discovered that the log is loaded correctly from the main logs page only when I am NOT signed in. From my "Your Active Game Logs + Open Invitations" page, being me signed in, the log is displayed rightly when I click on my name, but if I click the link listed in the logs column, then the problem arises.

What makes the matter more intriguing is that this happens only with a particular log and using my laptop with Windows 10 and Chrome. No problem using mobile devices.

Anyway, thanks for answering, I already made my move.    

What makes the matter more intriguing is that this happens only with a particular log and using my laptop with Windows 10 and Chrome. No problem using mobile devices.

Clicking on pieces to move them is handled by JavaScript, and since it is a client-side language, it can vary from browser to browser. I have been testing the new code mainly in Firefox. If something is not working right in a particular browser, please tell me about it in detail so that I can look into it.

OK, thanks again for your attention. Currently I am accessing that and all the logs normally. I don't know what could have happened. Sorry for the false alarm.

My opponent is having trouble moving in the following game of ours - maybe the log/preset is broken, or maybe there's a technical problem like Carlos had in another Sac Chess game between himself and me?:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Sac+Chess&log=panther-cvgameroom-2020-217-110

My opponent is having trouble moving in the following game of ours

I didn't notice any problem when I tried moving as him. If the problem is with using the mouse or touchscreen to move, he should update to a more recent browser or report which browser and device he is using.

@ Carlos:

For some reason, on the presets' main intro page the presets for the standard piece set and the alternate piece set are showing the sailors switched with the missionaries in the setup, but otherwise the presets themselves have the pieces set up correctly at the start.

@Kevin:

Tomorrow I will make the correction because now I have no access to my laptop.

@Kevin:

Ready! Mission accomplished. It is difficult to understand how we did not realize that mistake before.

Thank you Carlos!

@ arx

Thanks for the personal invitation to a game of Sac Chess. However, I'm currently trying to find new living quarters and I wish to have as few games going as possible for some time to come (who knows, I may even lack internet for a very long time).

Take care,

Kevin