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When I submit my moves today, I get this message, even though the move is
sent:

Warning:
copy(/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/(...)/(omitted)-cvgameroom-2005-32-111.bak):
failed to open stream: Permission denied in
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/write_log.php on line 9

Warning: Failed to copy
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/(...)chess/(omitted)-cvgameroom-2005-32-111.php
to
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/(...)/(omitted)-cvgameroom-2005-32-111.bak


Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/write_log.php on line 52

Warning: touch(): Utime failed: Permission denied in
/home/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/write_log.php on line 53


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Is there some work being done on the log?

Esto ayudará quizá [Maybe this will help]:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_es&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplay.chessvariants.org%2Fpbm%2Findex.html

Ésta es una traducción de los pescados de Babel de la página principal del
índice para el mensajero del juego. El texto que estoy escribiendo aquí
también está siendo traducido por los pescados de Babel, puesto que no sé
español. Después de leer las instrucciones en español, van a la página
original y siguen las instrucciones. [This is a Babel Fish translation of
the main index page for Game Courier. The text I'm writing here is also
being translated by Babel Fish, since I don't know Spanish. After reading
the instructions in Spanish, go to the original page and follow the
instructions there.]

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/index.html

Going over PHP's 30 second time limit normally indicates a bug in the GAME
Code program, usually an infinite loop. Try debugging your code.

Storing the position on the form would have little effect on speed, since
automation and checking the legality of moves doesn't really take that
long. The only thing I've tried that is really time consuming is checking
for checkmate and stalemate, which both involve trying out alternate moves.
So I normally put code for this in the Post-Game sections, so that it gets
done only at the end of a series of moves.

As for resetting the time limit, I don't think that's doable. It is a
built-in feature of PHP, which Game Courier is written in, not of Game
Courier itself.

My checking-for-check (not checking for checkmate or stalemate) presets for
Chess on a Longer Board with a few pieces added and Maxima managed to reach
the 30-second time limit within 40 moves (from each side).
I had to limit myself to move-checking presets which do not check for
check. (Anyway, the checking-for-check preset for Maxima also has bugs
which are related to baroque capture and the form of the board, and whose
resolution would require even more time from Game Courier).

To both Antoine and A. Black,

I have looked at Antoine's Maxima code and at A. Black's Xaigo code, and
both could use some optimizing. Antoine, I suspect you could optimize much
of your code by using functions instead of long series of conditionals.
For example, I used to use long series of conditionals to check for check,
but then I added the ability to use functions and could then check for
check with a single line of code. A. Black, I've noticed that you could
optimize your code a bit by using the match command in place of or-ing ==
conditions. In general, I recommend becoming more familiar with the new
commands, functions, and capabilities I not too long ago added to GAME
Code. Knowing how to best use them will help you write more efficient
code. As someone who cut his programming teeth on an 8k Vic 20, my
programming mantra has always been optimize.

I see some foreign characters there (Japanese Kanji?), but I'm not going to do the hard work of making pieces from them. If you want pieces for this game, make them yourself, then email me a zip file containing the completely finished pieces. For use with Game Courier, make sure each piece is a transparent GIF, and make the transparent color green, specifically #00FF00.