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There is a problem with the Game Courier's Game Logs Index Page. It does not display the logs.

Do you know what is the cause?

Fergus, I just accidentally erased a game in progress. Got distracted while
I was calling up the game and managed to double-click the "Delete"
option, instead of clicking on my name to call up the game. Heh, it would
be one thing if I was winning, but I was losing in that one. I agree it's
a rather unlikely error, but as I have just demonstrated to my chagrin, it
is possible. Could that be changed, maybe requiring a password to activate?
Thanks.

What's the game? I may be able to restore the backup. It is supposed to
require a password, but there might be a bug.

It no longer requires a password, because the new login system doesn't
require a password if you are already signed in. So I have added a new
safeguard to it to prevent it from deleting a file without confirmation.

Thanks, Fergus. The URL :

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DGreat+Shatranj%26log%3Djoejoyce-catsmas-2013-54-894%26userid%3Djoejoyce

Okay, it's restored.

Thank you.

Got a problem with this game:
 http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=CaM%3A+A+Tale+of+Two+Countries+2&log=joejoyce-catsmas-2013-252-784&userid=joejoyce
Mark has not been able to make moves - he can't even always sign in. After
using his password to move for him, I had no trouble with his turn, but he
still did. Finally, this morning, he sent me a move where every piece he
moved disappeared from the board. What is going on? He is using Google
Chrome.

I've made my 1st move twice in this game, some days apart. It said the move
was sent both times, and both times, the game showed up later with my move
missing. Note this game allows 8 moves/player-turn. What's happening here?

     joejoyce-capnmunch-2013-287-056

I'm trying again, sending out another invite. I don't see anything
obviously wrong with the presets. They are not rules checking, and exclude
pieces not in set-up. I tried sending a move in the previous game I
mentioned 4 times in succession. It tells me the move was sent, and that I
must sign in to make a move, even though the previous screen shows me as
signed in and I've entered my password.

Crashed and burned again. Any suggestions, anyone?

Can you post the link to the preset itself so I can see it?

Currently there are three that have blown up. 

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=CaM%3A+A+Tale+of+Two+Countries+2&log=joejoyce-catsmas-2013-252-784
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=CaM%3A+A+Tale+of+Two+Countries+1.1&log=joejoyce-capnmunch-2013-287-056
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=CaM%3A+A+Tale+of+Two+Countries+2&log=joejoyce-capnmunch-2013-291-145

Thanks for looking! I appreciate it.

Actually, I'm looking for the preset you used to start these, not the
crashed logs (they don't seem to tell me anything - not that I'm sure the
preset will either...)

Greg: from the log page, go under the header Related, This Preset for...
Or, the Menu button to the right of the log block.

Joe: I notice that in the logs you appear as both white and black.  Is this
just when I view it?  It doesn't look that way for other logs I view. 
Maybe something is wrong with the multiple moves...?

Click on "menu" in the viewing screen, and it takes you to a screen where
you can edit, customize, whatever.

Hey, Ben. I don't see why the multi-moves are the problem. I've been
making and playing multi-move games almost since I got here, and never had
this trouble before. I also noticed my name would appear for both sides
when I was having problems. I suspect that is related to the problem, but
the games were started as 2-player. And the glitch didn't show up
instantly. Look at the first game, with catsmas. That went a bit before it
punked out. Was there a change made to the system recently, that my preset
might have run afoul of?

Oh, ok, I see now.  Not used to the menu bar.

This preset has no code at all!  Doesn't leave much to go wrong. 
Something broken by a server upgrade isn't a bad guess.  Are you entering
a move that uses a character you didn't use before?  Maybe try moving only
a single piece just to see if it takes it...

Hey, Greg. None of my presets has any code. I'm B.C. - before computers. I
keep the slide rule I used in college under an abacus on my encyclopedia
bookshelves. And I just use the originating and destination squares -
everything goes in like "d2-d4" - no names or other characters at all
(except for the semicolon that separates the moves.) Guess I'll have to
put another preset together (the 3rd for this particular preset, not
counting the original, which has no accounting table on the side) and see
what happens this time. Thanks for looking. Like I said, I cannot see why
there is a problem.

I've been trying to find what may have gone wrong, to no avail.  Fergus
would be better suited to finding out, but I haven't heard from him in a
while.

Got this when I saved a test game preset:

Your settings have been saved as DoubleGOmove1. To access these settings for a game, use this URL:

• http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game%3DDouble+GOmove%26settings%3DDoubleGOmove1

FAILED to REPLACE the row for this settings file in the GameSettings table. This may affect the information available about your settings file, and this failure should be reported to Fergus Duniho for correction. Tell him that the following line of SQL failed:

REPLACE INTO GameSettings(Game, Settings, Redirect, Author, Rules, Coded, Lastmod) VALUES ('Double GOmove', 'DoubleGOmove1', '', '', 'http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSgochess', 0, 1515093310)