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raekuul · Lives under a bridge & tells stories.

Okay. So, I'm going to the topic in Visitor Games, "Welcome to Visitors Games", and I know there's a chessboard code in the post somewhere. But, the phpbb system keeps saying "failed to open stream".

Antrax · ESL Student

I'll look into it.
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unregistered* · Guest

No luck yet? Melancholy

Well, at least is the text that was in there accessible from anywhere else?

Courk · Daedalian Member

Here's the stuff that's in there, sans the chess coding stuff. I don't want to replace the actual post itself in case something in there can help us figure out the chess problem. I'll also make a new post in VG.

Welcome to the Visitors games forum, and we hope you enjoy your stay. In this forum, you can play a large variety of games with fellow GL members. Most of the time, the one who starts a new game will explain the rules. However, some general remarks may be in order.

MAFIA
This is still the most popular game. So popular that we have created a special forum for it. So don't go looking for mafia games here... Felicitous

Game Tags: With many thanks to jeep
To use the tags, replace the < with [ and the > with ] in the examples.
Report bugs here in FR/SP

Dice:
You can make a dice roll using the Dice Tags. <dice>xdy</dice> will roll x y-sided dice (x<201, y<101). For example, if you are playing backgammon, you might roll: <dice>2d6</dice> Editting the post will put "Fixed" in the dice roll to help discourage cheating, but it's not 100%. If you don't trust the person you are playing you must either play in a forum where they cannot edit, find another random generator that you do trust, or not play with that person. The die roll is randomly generated when posted (previewing will do nothing.) Here is the result of the example above:

Dice Roll:

Original Roll String: 2d6 Fixed
2 6-Sided Dice Results: 6, 6 (Total = 12)

GoBoard
You can show an go board graphic using the goboard tag. Currently, 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 are implemented <goboard9>, <goboard13>, <goboard19>. I used similar coding as the old GL tags. 'b' will place a black stone, 'w' a white stone, and 'e' and empty point. So a blank 9x9 board is
<goboard9>
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e</goboard9>

And it might look like this after a couple moves
<goboard9>
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e b e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e w e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e</goboard9>

Captured stones are NOT currently given anyplace to be, but I'll add that soon enough.

As a training aid, you can also use b1-b100 and w1-w100 to place numbered stones. This is more diffictult to manage in the text of the code though, so be careful. Finally bt and wt will place stones with triangles.

9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	j

13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	j	k	l	m	n

19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t

MANY MANY OTHER GAMES....
... come and go and may return again. If they get frequent, I will post some general rules here, either on my own initiative or on request. Otherwise, the one who starts the game should explain the rules.

We hope you enjoy this forum. If there is anything unclear, or anything in this forum that you think needs my attention, please E-mail me at dragonphoenixrevived@yahoo.com. Have fun!

Visitor's Games Hall of Fame:

John Ratite's interplanetary Palooza - T McAy
Other games not yet added

Last updated by MatthewV

Courk · Daedalian Member

To save the trouble of looking through the post for all the instances of the problem, there are only 2 instances where DP used the chess tags that cause problems:

<chess>[white "JEEP"][Black "Other"][site "GL"][date "2004/??/??"][Round "1"][Event "GL Tournament"][result "*"]1. e4 e5 2. d4</chess>

<chess>Pe4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4</chess>

Courk · Daedalian Member

Copying & Pasting what I typed in Forum Moderators:

Game Tags is also broken.

It's post # 261832 The link to reach the edit page
I'm trying to remove the broken tags, and when I click "preview" everything shows up fine after their removal, but it won't work after I submit it.

Edit: Well, I can't figure that out. I copy and pasted exactly what mith did with DP's post to make it work, yet the game tags thread still won't. It's not a big deal since all the information actually is in DP's post, but that's just... weird.

The error's the same, too: "Warning: require_once(/usr/www/users/wx3qs/greylab/discussion/includes/Chess.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/greylab/public_html/discussion/includes/StandardChess.php on line 29"

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Oh, and next time soneone edits the post (I can't):

Courk · Daedalian Member

It's gone.

Antrax · ESL Student