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#Post#: 452--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 1:30 pm
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10 x 10 chess variant for submssion:
Battle of Kruger
The Battle of Kruger is a variant chess game inspired by a real
wildlife video of a fight between buffalos, lions, and
crocodiles. The video has become popular on YouTube, and can be
viewed here:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
The variant game is not as brutal, and instead of lions and
crocodiles has cats, bulldogs, guards, chancellors, in addition
to the normal chess pieces. Ideas for the new chess pieces comes
from Chess and Half (cats, by Nicolino Will), Bulldog Chess
(bulldogs), and Capablanca Chess (chancellors).
Rules:
Board: 10 x 10
The pieces:
Guard (G) - Moves and captures like a king, but is not royal.
See move diagram below.
HTML https://imgur.com/teUiKem.png
Cat (Cat) - Jumps 1 or 2 squares in any direction. See move
diagram below.
HTML https://imgur.com/McpHV8q.png
The moves for the guard and cat are shown here:
HTML https://imgur.com/Hhm7jUQ.png
Chancellor (C) - Moves and captures as rook + knight.
HTML https://imgur.com/3iTdFry.png
Bulldog (D) - Moves and attacks the same as a pawn, except
pieces FROM ITS OWN ARMY ONLY can pass over it in any direction.
If a bull dog reaches the 8th rank it can immediately move to
any square in the first five ranks (but cannot capture a piece
during this move). This move can only be completed during the
same move it reaches the 10th rank. (If this option is not
taken, the right to do so later is forfeited). The bulldog does
not promote to other pieces as pawns do.
HTML https://imgur.com/uIUl5CZ.png
Board Setup:
HTML https://imgur.com/AP709ho.png
Castling: - Castling is performed between the king and one rook.
If castling with an inside rook, the king moves two squares. If
castling with an outside rook, the king moves three squares. The
rook finished inside and adjacent to the king. All squares
between the king and the involved rook must be unoccupied. All
other rules of castling are the same as in classical chess.
Misc - Pawns play the same as in classical chess. Pawns can
promote to queen, rook, bishop, knight in addition to
chancellor, cat, and guard. Promotions are unlimited (not
restricted to pieces that have been captured).
Other rules of this game are identical with rules of classical
chess.
Comments are appreciated. :)
#Post#: 453--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 1:44 pm
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Asher, I'm getting an error message "The upload folder is full.
Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator" when
I try to upload any image of any size. Even a single chess piece
50 x 50 pixels in size. :(
Is this a general forum issue right now, or is there some other
way I can do it.
The video above is only a link to YouTube, which is hosted by
YouTube so I'm assuming that's not a problem, right?
I can also send the game to you by PM, but am worried the
overall forum may be overloaded with images? Let me know what I
can do. Thanks.
#Post#: 456--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: ebinola Date: February 12, 2018, 5:14 pm
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[quote author=chilipepper link=topic=30.msg453#msg453
date=1518464672]
Asher, I'm getting an error message "The upload folder is full.
Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator" when
I try to upload any image of any size. Even a single chess piece
50 x 50 pixels in size. :(
Is this a general forum issue right now, or is there some other
way I can do it.
The video above is only a link to YouTube, which is hosted by
YouTube so I'm assuming that's not a problem, right?
I can also send the game to you by PM, but am worried the
overall forum may be overloaded with images? Let me know what I
can do. Thanks.
[/quote]
Put the images on a Google drive/imgur, then use the [img] tag.
That way the image is fetched from an external site, not adding
to local storage.
Also, are we supposed to post our variants here before the
deadline if we've submitted?
#Post#: 457--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 6:16 pm
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I'm not sure if we're supposed to post the variants here before
submitting to Asher. I didn't really see a reason to submit them
only by PM, so I was planning on doing both.
I did upload all the images to imgur. But I'm still having
problems getting them to display. Here is the full set both with
and without the img syntax. What am I doing wrong?
(( All code deleted because it is now working ))
#Post#: 459--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: John_Lewis Date: February 12, 2018, 7:27 pm
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[quote author=chilipepper link=topic=30.msg453#msg453
date=1518464672]
I can also send the game to you by PM, but am worried the
overall forum may be overloaded with images? Let me know what I
can do. Thanks.
[/quote]
You have to either email or PM the rules to him. Posting rules
here does not enter the contest! :P
#Post#: 460--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 8:29 pm
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[quote author=John_Lewis link=topic=30.msg459#msg459
date=1518485236]
You have to either email or PM the rules to him. Posting rules
here does not enter the contest! :P
[/quote]
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. I just sent the rules to Asher.
I still didn't send individual piece graphics, but everything
shoud be understandable with the rules, and the starting board
diagram which is already shown in post #16. :)
#Post#: 461--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: HGMuller Date: February 13, 2018, 3:34 am
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I have found on other forums that the img tag only works on URLs
with a recognized filename extension like .jpg, .gif, .png ...
The files at imgur seem to have no extension at all, and I am
not sure whether it offers you a way to control that. (I never
used imgur; I have my own webspace.)
#Post#: 466--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: Martin0 Date: February 13, 2018, 8:52 pm
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I used imgur in the event chess forum and it worked fine for me.
The images I upload to imgur already had the .png at the end and
they were kept. There is also a link with the img tag you can
just copy from there (BB code).
HTML https://i.imgur.com/smq0Tm3.png
HTML https://i.imgur.com/l9abXkM.png
HTML https://i.imgur.com/v7xFwGd.png
#Post#: 467--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: Martin0 Date: February 13, 2018, 9:31 pm
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here is one of your images:
HTML https://i.imgur.com/3iTdFry.png
If you right click on the image and copy image address you also
get the ".png" at the end. Right now your link is just to a page
with the image in it and not a link to the image itself.
#Post#: 469--------------------------------------------------
Re: IMPORTANT! The 100 Post Chess Variant Contest!
By: chilipepper Date: February 14, 2018, 11:11 am
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HGMuller and Martin0: Thanks for your help!
Everything now seems to be working. When I originally collected
the image links from Imgur, I copied the entire links. But I
suppose it displays without the file extension. So I guess it
always needs to be added (when using Imgur).
I am new with Imgur. I'm surprised it supports image hosting
without passwords. Does anyone know if this is regarded as
secure (or at least reliable)?
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