vchess.club : play chess variants

I think we just played, but I noticed a bug in the end. After Qxa4 I was offered promotion choices (all queens), and the same after capturing king. I should fix that :/

Whith that huge blunder as the last move it is hard to admit that this was me ...
Somehow I stumble in unintendet consequences in every secound move or something like that.

Also I have the strange feeling that the CPU will need forever if you implemented Alice-chess. 2 boards could induce to many new possibilities. You should probably decrese the depthfor that one

The depth is just 3, but indeed a few mobile pieces on a rather empty board coul increase a lot the branching factor. I'll see :) for now I should debug Magnetic

I fixed Magnetic chess (attracting an opponent pawn on its first rank made a promotion).

And there is a first draft of Alice rules implemented. Still a bug to find (pieces change of board sometimes unexpectedly), but it's almost OK and seems to allow depth 3 too.

Yes depth 3 is ridiculous but optimizing the variants code to gain a few half moves would take too much time and be opposite to my purpose which is: make people play against humans ^^

I think there still has to be an error somewhere.
I just ended a game with three rocks and I have no idea where or when the third turned up (there where some quite crazy far reaching moves).
Sorry that I haven't more information.

Yes Alice chess is buggish. i'm at debugging :)

Ah, about the "no-chat" "feature" of vchess.club, I noticed that in most tournament common chats we don't read anything very interesting. A live example (fake names, true words):

Player1 : Player2, I am pretty sure that you were not very smart when you were in school
Player2 : lol

About private chats ?

The two last chats I received during a game where "Bitch", and "Wow. Wow again." (in the first case I won, in the second I lost). And the last time I tried to discuss the opening by starting with "I didn't play the opening very well" (but luckily won) I just got " Yess" from my opponent before he quit. To play another game.

Once I sent a message to a guy who really played well the Benko gambit. Basically to congrats him. He replied that he was very surprised to not be insulted (this time I lost).

So, all in all removing chat seems not so bad. What do you think ? :)

I acctually ment magnetic not alice. I haven't really tried that one yet.

I do not think that any chat is needed. On the other hand my expieriences with chat are that is mostly unused, not that is as bad as your expieriences.

Ok ! Then it would help if you could describe a little bit more. An extra rook appear ? In the corner ? I noticed a bug like that sometimes but couldn't reproduce it :/

The problem is I don't know exactly where or when. It was not in a corner. I had one rock on my baseline (c) that can not have been it. Then later there was one rock in or near to the center (e or f line) and one on my baseline. It could be that they where both on e or f. If I had to bet, my bet would be one the one on e1 or f1 (60 to 40 percent). So it might have been an accidantly changing a pawn into a rock on my own baseline. However that is only speculation.