Comments by FergusDuniho

Besides using # and ! for border-colored and text-colored dots, it will now use numbers to specify dots in the color of one of the colors listed in the colors field. This field is normally used for coloring the spaces of the board, but it may be expanded beyond the colors needed for the board. On a regular checkered board, the two colors of the board will normally be 0 and 1, and the next color will be 2. You can set 2 to whatever color you want, then insert {2} in your FEN code to display a dot of that color. Since numbers are normally used to indicate a number of empty spaces, any number used to designate colors must appear inside braces. This lets the number be used as a label instead of information about the number of empty spaces.

I do not speak Russian. If you speak English, it would be best to use English. You cannot move in a game until it is your turn. I have added lang="en" to the page so that Google translate will know what language to translate the page from.

Я не говорю по-русски. Если вы говорите по-английски, лучше использовать английский. Вы не можете двигаться в игре, пока не настает ваша очередь. Я добавил lang = "en" на страницу, чтобы Google translate знал, на каком языке для перевода страницы.

I added this page to the index in order to report some changes to it in a comment. Many submissions were getting lost, because this page would show only the last 90 days worth of submissions, as though this page were analogous to the What's New page. I changed it to display all past submissions that still haven't been approved, and they go back to 2005 and -1. Let's try to process this backlog of submissions and review new submissions in a more timely manner.

It will be missing if you are already signed in. In that case, just click the Send button.

This is supposed to be a Zillions page, but it is missing the link to the Zillions file.

This is an incomplete project. Although the concept is interesting, the page linked to from this page does not include the rules for the game, and it does not include any means to play the game. It is too early to approve this link page.

I copied the log to your game, changed the userids to some of my own, and made the same move you are trying to make without any problem. The one discrepency I see in the error message you are reporting is that it identifies the turn as 2 instead of 1. I don't know why it would say that, since this is the first turn of the game. I tried it again to see if there was any way of manually changing the turn number, and I didn't find any way to do that. See /play/pbm/play.php?game=Unicorn+Great+Chess&log=test-2018-221-028

Game Courier has now been modified to give an error message if it does not recognize the value of the Submit field when clicking on a form. This is because the use of Google Translate may change this value to something Game Courier does not recognize, and users should be notified of this error when it happens.

See /play/pbm/ratings.php

I wouldn't say there is anything strange about its absence. You are the first person who has ever said we should have this, and no such AI exists. At best, we have programs and scripts that have been created to play some games. Even Zillions-of-Games, which has more games available for it than any other program of its kind, can only play those games that have been programmed for it. There is no AI that can read rules written in English and play the game against someone. What this site is the home of is Game Courier, which lets you play Chess variants with other people by correspondence. It is as versatile as Zillions-of-Games with respect to the games that can be played with it, but it is only for correspondence games, not for playing against a computer.

I was experimenting with Cloudflare's "Always use HTTPS" option, but some pages were having problems, because they were sending form data from an HTTPS page to an HTTP page. This site has an SSL certificate through Cloudflare, and I would like to switch over to using HTTPS, but I have to fix the forms before I can do this.

HTTPS offers more security than HTTP, it enables the use of HTML / 2, which will speed up the site, and it should improve the ranking of the site in the search engines. But there are lots of pages with lots of forms to fix before this is viable. There may also be some glitches along the way.

I was noticing the same thing last night. I'm in the process of converting the site from HTTP to HTTPS, and it seems to be related to that, but I don't know what's happening. Notice whether this happens only when the page is an HTTPS one or whether it is also happening for HTTP pages.

Having started on this, it seems to me that things would go more easily if all internal links were relative links. But having part of the site in a separate subdomain makes this impossible. Links between the main site and the subdomain have to be full links, and full links have to either HTTP or HTTPS. Relative links have the benefit of conforming to whatever the page being viewed is.

I looked into this further this morning, and the pages I read argued that putting everything on one domain is better for SEO. A subdomain is treated like a separate site, and it does not inherit the authority of the main site. Given that the main site and the subdomain are interrelated, sharing links and images, and that the main site has a good amount of authority that I would like the play part of the site to benefit from, I think it would be a good idea to replace the subdomain with a subdirectory. The subdomain is already physically located in a subdirectory, and 301 redirects could be used to direct subdomain links to the subdirectory.

Once that is done, I could make all internal links relative. This would get rid of the HTTPS links I started to add yesterday. And when all links are relative, it would be a lot easier to convert the whole site to HTTPS at once.