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Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Oh , thank you very much ! Now it's good - I can see all my games !
Uwe Kreuzer has won a game of 'Omega Chess 10x8' each morning for the last three or four or five days. Possible bug in the program?
It appears that one player has lost by running out of time, and they have continued to play the game anyway.
Hi Fergus, I have two old game logs from August 2003 I'm trying to delete, but I keep getting a a warning from the Game Courier that says something about an illegal move...weird. Can you delete those for me?
Since all your logs are currently dated October 16, 2004, I don't know which ones you mean.
When I enter my username and password to view just my logs, it shows the two old games that you don't see in the general PBM logs. I have 3 current logs dating October 2004 and the two I need deleted are Aug. 27th of 2003. You may have to log in under my username to see this.
I see two that are dated August 27, 2004, not 2003. No logs are dated earlier than August 27, 2004, because that is the date on which I transferred all the logs from chessvariants.com to chessvariants.org, and the procedure I used for copying the logs did not retain the original timestamps. So I'll go ahead and delete those two.
I have noticed some excellent Game Courier presets created and then played, but not posted for general use. If you would like your presets posted, please send the URLs to the editors. Preset pages can then be made and posted. Thanks!
The logs page has been updated this week. It now has a field for filtering logs on the basis of a game's name. This field accepts a wildcard pattern. An * can be used for any game, and a game's name can be used by itself without any wildcard characters. Also, the Status Filter now includes an option for showing only open invitations. This duplicates the functionality of the Waiting Room page, making it unnecessary.
If your not going to allow chess variant players to play Gothic Chess on the PBM system, at least allow us to delete our logs with pending Gothic Chess invitations. Thanks.
Perhaps the server should also prevent people from creating invitations under game-names that are known to be trademarked, at least for games whose owners are known to be particularly protective of their legal rights.
You're free to delete any of your invitations. Instructions are near the bottom of this page.
Oh, I see what the two of you mean now. Ironlance somehow managed to issue more GC invitations after I added some code banning the game from Game Courier, and now this code is preventing him from deleting them. I'm not sure how he managed to issue these invitations. I've just deleted them by ftp. Instead of deleting the directory in question, which would only allow someone to recreate it, I've made it unwriteable.
I think it would be useful to have a field on the Game Courier move-entry form for 'annotations', which would be for comments a player makes on his own moves, but which would not be displayed until the game is over. Would people use such a field? If we did, I think it would increase the value to CV students of the library of games that the system is creating.
I would like to see an automatic game backup feature for the Game Courier. Moves have been lost in both of my games of Fisher Random Chess. I was expecting move eleven today from Matthias Brendel and instead received a repeat of move seven. See also the entry
<p>'13... e7-d6 // The game seems to have skipped back two moves.'
<p>in Marc Wakeham - David Paulowich, recorded as pircman-cvgameroom-2004-227-741
I'm not sure what has happened here. I have never known anything like what you describe happening before, and as far as I know, it shouldn't happen. If you and your opponent would send me the email records of your last moves, it might shed some light on what has happened. I have now added the feature of backing up logs. It is too late for it to help us find out what has happened to your moves, but it can help me figure out what is going on if it happens again. Whenever you make a move, your old log will get backed up before it gets overwritten. Since each new backup will overwrite the old backup, you should report any loss of moves as soon as it happens.
Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 02:49 AM UTC:Regarding possible game courier bugs, I have noticed a couple of things... I have also experienced the suddenly back-in-time that David describes, although I have never had it go back more than one move, and I have also discovered that I can completely prevent it from happening by always, always, ALWAYS clicking ctrl-refresh to force a full page re-load before entering any moves. I find that this is step is essential, or there's the occasional deja-vu-move. I use IE 6.0 SP 2, and it is configured to always reload all pages, so it's not IE configured to cache pages or the like. Also, in a game of Fisher Random Chess in which I was making the first move of the game, I noticed that every time I would click 'Refresh,' (which I always do, as described above) it would give me a different random configuration. But then, when I actually made the move, (a pawn move,) the pieces were suddenly in a different configuration (the original configuration, I presume, although I'm not sure. I wasn't paying that much attention.) Hope this helps! Greg
Fergus - all I am looking for is an internet chess site that does not require Java, ActiveX, or an email account that is working every month of the year. FFEN diagrams simply do not exist for me. I can play back the moves of a game in your Game Courier Game Logs, but not one of the 'saved games' elsewhere on this site. My old email address ceased to exist on Oct. 31 and I am now enjoying my anonymity. That address now exists only on my 'personid' page here (apparently removing it causes Game Courier to refuse to make any moves in my games) and in the phoney return address lines on various SPAM emails.
I assume Matthias Brendel sent move eleven shortly before 01:00 on Monday, Nov 15. What showed up here was a repeat of move seven. As in the case of 'Marc Wakeham - David Paulowich', this represents a trip back in time of at least four days. I suppose the email related to Brendel's move may have been returned to this site, but I really have no idea. Sorry that I cannot offer more help.
Based on Greg's comments, I think I know what to do about the bug David Paulowich reported. If I make sure that the old movelist is a substring of the new movelist before a game gets logged, this should prevent Game Courier from writing the log with data from unrefreshed browser windows. I'll report back when this is fixed for good. As for the other bug that Greg mentioned, it has already been reported and fixed.
Okay, I think I have fixed the bug David Paulowich reported. In my tests, it lets new moves go through, but it stops moves from earlier in the game and advises the user to go back and refresh his browser window before entering his move.
Just a suggestion. It would be great to have a link to your opponents email on the preset page of the game your playing. I had just recently made a move in a game and noticed just after that my opponent had made an illegal move prior to mine. But I could not quickly find his email info to let him know. A quick link to send a message would have helped. Thanks.
A simple way to send a message to your opponent is to reply to any automated e-mail message sent by Game Courier to remind you its your move. This message has your opponent as the addressee.
It is my turn to play against Greg Strong. Altough when I click the URL : 'You may not move any enemy pieces.' Probably due to: 'I have made some significant changes to how loops, conditionals, and subroutines work. Let me know if these changes result in any bugs.' ;-)
Among my recent changes to Game Courier was a tightening up of the code for handling drops. But I left out some variable assignments that got used in the condition that led to the incorrect illegal move message. This is now fixed, and Shogi games are showing up properly.
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