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I changed the owner of the log directory and the PHP log file to apache, and now errors are being logged.
That's now fixed. You were on a page with HTTPS, but the form used a full URL that began with HTTP://. I changed it to a relative URL, so that it would be HTTPS when the page is already HTTPS.
It will now appear in the Related Pages menu on Game Courier pages.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Okay, that's all fixed. I was rewriting the code without the use of a deprecated feature, and I didn't quite get it right last night.
Where is it documented that Chu Shogi was the dominant Chess variant in Japan for centuries?
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There was a typo in my last change to Game Courier. Fixing that fixed the problem.
The Knight doesn't just complement the Bishop. It complements both the Bishop and the Rook, because it leaps to the nearest spaces that these two pieces cannot reach.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]That may have happened when the typo I made introduced a bug in the code. I corrected the results for this game in the log and the database.
That was due to a coding mistake I made yesterday. I replaced the count function with is_array($op1) && count($op1) instead of is_array($op1) ? count($op1) : 0, and the result was that the actual count was replaced with 1 whenever it was positive. I fixed that, corrected your log and its database entries, fixed the problem with posting here, and moved your comments from where you originally made them.
That the Knight is roughly equivalent in power to a Bishop was probably one of the factors that contributed to it being used in Chess. If the Knight were as weak as a Wazir or Ferz, it might have been replaced by a Knightrider, and if it were as powerful as an Amazon, it might have been omitted.
On Designing Good Chess Variants. Design goals and design principles for creating Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]If promotion is only to captured pieces, as in Grand Chess, then underpromotion enables promotion when there are no captured compound pieces to promote to.
After White's pawn takes the Queen and promotes to an Archbishop, Black has only four moves available. Two of these moves would expose it to capture without any significant consequence for White, and another would allow White to move the Archbishop to b8. The remaining move is to go to d7, checking the King. If White responds by taking the checking piece with either Archbishop, the resulting position is a stalemate. If White responds by moving the King, Black can take either Archbishop en prise. If White responds with a block on e6 from the Archbishop on e6, Black can exchange Archbishops. This might still be favorable for White. If Black takes the Pawn at b5 instead, White can still probably force an advantage. So, it looks like White could still win if the Pawn promotes to an Archbishop. The advantage of promoting to a Bishop is that White can win quickly and decisively. If the Archbishop moves to d7 for check, the Bishop can take it without causing stalemate. If the Archbishop makes its only safe move to c7, then the Bishop can safely check the King from b7, forcing the King to move to b8. The Archbishop can then move to d7 for checkmate.
Unicode Fonts with Chess Piece Images. Images of how the Unicode Chess piece characters are displayed in different fonts.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I just installed Noto Sans Symbols on my computer, and it does not appear to have its own set of Chess pieces. In NexusFont, it is defaulting to MS Gothic or MS Mincho, and in paint.net, it is defaulting to Meiryo or Segoe UI.
Give me a link where I can download the version you have or see this for myself.
That's where I got it from last night. I have already checked the Noto fonts on Linux Mint, but they didn't seem to include their own Chess pieces, and I never saw the pieces I saw on my Kindle Fire on Linux Mint. What Linux distribution are you using?
Do any of these tests show the same pieces as displayed on my Kindle Fire? They don't for me, not even in Fedora, which I tried with Virtualbox. It came with some versions of Noto Sans, but not Noto Sans Symbol.
Testing for Noto Sans:
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Noto Sans Symbol:
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Noto Sans Symbols:
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I got the same results on Linux Mint, and I found a site with a font preview that confirms it. So, I have moved it to the list of free fonts. Thanks.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]He might have done it accidentally, since he repeated the same move.
Unicode Fonts with Chess Piece Images. Images of how the Unicode Chess piece characters are displayed in different fonts.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks, I have added Nishiki-teki to the page.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Carlos was jumping the gun about him. He was using translated pages, and these weren't sending the correct submit values to Game Courier. I recommended that he use English pages, and in the meantime, I fixed the problem with translated pages, so that they would work too.
Unicode Fonts with Chess Piece Images. Images of how the Unicode Chess piece characters are displayed in different fonts.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It looks like you're right. I have the font installed, and I got a white elephant.
Where are the Xiangqi and Shogi pieces? I couldn't find those in the font.
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It doesn't look like that has helped. The timestamp on the PHP errors log still hasn't changed. At least sessions are working. So, I'll leave it like that until I have more time to focus on it.