New chess variant. Looking for players to play with.

This is my last try if you take forever to reply, or just don't reply till I write ten messages. I'm done. Connection is closed by peer. Hit new game and do not move.

still closed. I waited and hit new game five times every 10 sec. Still closed by peer. So I connected to letstryagain1. I am connected.

I keep new game every ten sec. then hitting machine white to make me black again. Are you getting any messages?

see I'm talking to myself again. No wonder this won't work.

Sorry, I can't connect. I won't be trying again today.

.............

I give up, this is a waste of my time. I'm testing with neighbors labtop.

See told you it was timing. If you would have simply did it over the phone or messaged me quickly. I would have gotten it to work the first try. Yet the way you wanted to do it. Waiting 2-3minutes to even reply, if you reply at all. Would never work. Just like I said. Because we would have never did the right thing. Then wait for the other.

After you change the time. I connected with this setting for both. One person connects then hit new game. You can't touch anything till I connect. If you get a message saying I want to play a game in the way I want. Because we both hit new game. Which made us both the same color. The one with the message to change. (second one to hit new game.) Which would be me in this example. must hit machine white, while the other don't touch or change anything. Then after he my move. If he moves before I'm in the game. You get connection closed by peer. So timly comunication is important.
I had my neighbor, on her labtop, download, unzip, set nick name, engine to the p2p.exe and comand parameters to winboard.nl

Hit ok. Reload load engine I just set.

Hit engine #1 settings...Set passward to 1357 then connected. Gave messaege saying time was wrong. Even tho both were the same. So I did not touch my PC. With the labtop I went to new game then time control. Which was what I wanted. So I just hit ok. Then new game then machine white. giving a message to me on my PC they wanted to play the 99 sec per move as black. I  opened time control on the PC which was already were I wanted it. Hit OK then new game. Then move a piece on the labtop. It moved on my PC. Moved on PC, it moved on labtop. The entire download, setup, and connecting. Took me under 5min to do. That is why I said to simply call me. Skype or PS3 video chat would work even better. Hence why setting up with my friend in Cali a year ago was so easy. When he can't even use E-mail he's so bad with a PC> Because I could talk him through it. While actually knowing what he was doning.

It won't say when we connect.(or at least I did not notice it) Just if we try and the setting say they don't match . You just move white and it moves on my screen when connected. Yet if not connected and you move I'm locked out till you disconnect and connect again or we change the pass and try again.

I am connected on pas 123456 machine whie at

Change time settings before connecting. Connect hit new game then move.

I hope you don't mind, but I don't want to do this today. I'll be glad to try again sometime this week. I think I understand your explanation, and I will try set up a game against myself to make sure I can do it right.

I got it working, so I know I'll be able to play later. I foolishly misread the IP address.

ok see you then.

The rest of the game:

Black is checkmated by White's Armored Knight.

still trying to figure how to paste that into winboard to see it. I am curious to see. Just don't want to do it manualy. I'll try again.

It will be very hard to paste that in WinBoard, because it is completely messed up: it is posted here in 3 columns, and counting vertically instead of horizontally. So the first line of the posted game contains move 1, 21 and 41. So if you copy-paste it to WinBoard, it will see move 21 as the second move, and of course complain it is illegal. WinBoard is pretty smart at recognizing Chess games, but it will not re-ordermoves...

If BattleChess wants to post a game so that others can read it, he should publish the game here in PGN format, such as WinBoard provides it (when you hit Edit -> Copy Game to Clipboard).

Btw, to test you don't really need your neighbors laptop; you can start WinBoard twice on your own computer (and use Alt-Tab to switch between the two if your screen is to small to lay them out side by side). This is how I tested it.

If you connect to the winboard.nl relay server, and your opponent with the matching password is not there, and does not arrive shortly after, you will get disconnected after some time. This will cause the 'connection closed by peer' message.

I originally did that, but I thought it looked too messy. So, I decided to organize it in a presentable fashion. Haha

Now, Ace, just to remind, this was the game that happened on page 8. This is the configuration before you made two more adjustments. (The fix to the cobra, and then the last update on page 9.)

[Event "First official public game of Alpha-Omega"]

[Site "BattleChessGN18"]

[Date "2015.11.02"]

[Round "1"]

[White "Drom Sealis (BattleChessGN18)"]

[Black "Drom Sealis (BattleChessGN18)"]

[Result "1-0"]

1. Hg4 Jk7 2. Hj4 Jk6 3. l4 j7 4. h6 h7 5. Ne4 Bk7 6. i5 Ng9 7. Jk5 i8 8. He6 Jf7 9. Hd7 e8 10. Hd5 Ee10 11. Tg4 Gl8 12. Qh5 Bg8 13. Bi4 He9 14. Kf2 Hj9 15. Nf6 Bi10 16. Hl6 Nl9 17. Lh3 Kl11 18. Sk3 Gl7 19. Hxk7 Nxk7 20. Sk4 Fk9 21. Wd6 Hf8 22. e5 Qh8 23. Lj4 Hk8 24. Si7 Hm6 25. Wxm6 Gxm6 26. Cd4 Rdh11 27. Cg7 Cgj9 28. Lj6 Nl5 29. Lxj7xk6 Nm7 30. Lxm6 Tm9 31. Lxm7-n7 Tl9 32. Lxp8 Fxi7 33. hxi7 Qxi7 34. En3 Rk8 35. Lxp7-o8 Rxo8 36. Bg5 Qn7 37. Rh2 Lh10 38. Cxf8 Lh8 39. Bh6 i7 40. Cxg9 Lxg9-f8 41. Bxi7 Td9 42. Bh6 Ld8 43. Fe4 Ec8 44. Gc5 Txa6 45. Ee3 C12g9 46. Se2 Se9 47. Bxe9 dxe9 48. Qg5 Ae10 49. Nxh7 Ld10 50. Rh6 Cxd6 51. Gxd6 Rxh7 52. Qxg10 Ai11 53. Qk6 Rk7 54. Qj5 Qxn3 55. m5 Rn8 56. Rm3 Qi8 57. Sg5 Qf8 58. Sh5 Qf12 59. Fe7 Ch7 60. Fxh7 Rxh7 61. Qxh7+ Bj9 62. Qk4 Qg12 63. Sg7 Wd9 64. Bj5 Sk10 65. Ec5 Txa3 66. Jf6 Txa4 67. Ae3 Sh12 68. Tmj4 Ti9 69. Tjj7 Ej10 70. Ni3 Le11 71. Bxe10 Exe10 72. Rxh12 Axh12 73. Hc6 Txa1 74. Nh5 Rg8 75. Txj10 Wxc6 76. Sxj9 Qxj9 77. Txj9 Txj9 78. Qxg8 Lg10 79. Qn8 Af11 80. Ng7 Tg6 81. Txg6 Jxg6 82. Qxn10 Lf8 83. Exc6 Lxg7-f7 84. j4 Lxf6-g5 85. Gxa1 Eg8 86. Qn3 Ag9 87. Qe12 l7 88. Qxe9 Lf7 89. Qe11+ Kl10 90. Exe8 Axe8 91. Qi7+ Kk10 92. Qk7+ Kj10 93. Ql8+ Kk10 94. Qxl7 Eg7 95. Qi10+ Kl11 96. Qxf7 Exf7 97. Cg4 Gd8 98. Ai2 Eh5 99. Ce6 m7 100. Ch9 m6 101. Cg10 Ad9 102. g4 Eg5 103. Af4 Ei7 104. Rh3 Gg12 105. Axg6 Ei6 106. Ah8 Exg4 107. Ag3 Exg3 108. Kxg3 Km12 109. Aj9 Kl11 110. Aj10+ Km12 111. Ak11+ Km11 112. Ak12+ Kn10 113. Rh10+ Km9 114. Al11+ Kl8 115. Ci8+ Kl7 116. Ak9+ Km7 117. Rl10 Kn7 118. Rm10 Ko8 119. Rxm6 Kn8 120. Am8+ Ko8 121. Am9+ Kp7 122. Rm8 Jp8 123. Ao8# 

I will be posting that youtube video with some analysis too, so stay put! =)

Also, Ace, I sent you a PM, but you didn't respond. I'm assuming you don't approve it? =\

Well, it is fine if you want to improve the layout, as long as the moves can still be read horizontally. (E.g. replacing all spaces in the PGN by Tabs.) Because that is how they appear in the text that is transferred when someone selects the table and copies it to clipboard. In this case the game could in theory be reconstructed because the moves still occured in pairs labeled by move numbers, but WinBoard is not so smart as to attempt that. This could be a suggestion for a next release: re-order garbled input by move number...

I just read your message and replied. I would be sad if your's gains more popularity. Considering how much effort I put into mine. I was going to make a new thread. Now that this is finally finished. If you could link to both. I would appreciate it.

Thanks for reading it, Ace. I will get back to you when the board set up is done.

Also, both our versions are wonderful. Hey, you've already gained the support of more than 6 people, two of whom actually wanted to play your game on Winboard! I think that says a lot about this game's success.

Anyways, my 2nd game against myself: (Again, this is based on the version before you updated the Snake piece; pg. 8)

[Event "Second official public game of Alpha-Omega"]

[Site "BattleChessGN18"]

[Date "2015.11.03"]

[Round "2"]

[White "Drom Sealis (BattleChessGN18)"]

[Black "Drom Sealis (BattleChessGN18)"]

[Result "0-1"]

1. g6 i8 2. h6 h7 3. g7 Be6+ 4. Ng4 Qi10 5. Gm5 Cm9 6. Wm6 j9 7. Se4 Aj10 8. i5 Fh9 9. Sf6 He9 10. Ag3 Bi9 11. Nl4 Ng9 12. Hj4 He7 13. Sxh9+ Axh9 14. Bxe7 Bxg4+ 15. Axg4 Kf11 16. Bh4 Hl9 17. Wxl9 Nxl9 18. Bl7 Jk8 19. Bm8 Lk10 20. Hl6 Ll8 21. Bxl9 Lxl9 22. He4 Rmi11 23. Qxd2-e2 Ke11 24. Cgj4 Wk9 25. Nn5 Lm8 26. Jk5 Jk7 27. Hl4 j8 28. Jo5 En10 29. Tm4 Ql7 30. Sk3 Wl8 31. Fk4 En8 32. Li3 Cgj9 33. Fl5 Qk8 34. Kh2 Ah11 35. Kg3 Qi6 36. Li4 Se9 37. Tg1 Sg6 38. Ah5 Sxj4 39. Tgxj4 Ql9 40. Jf4 Cl7 41. Jk6 Ck8 42. En3 Sk10 43. Sj5 Wd7 44. Hg4 Ec10 45. Aj2 A11j10 46. Bi3 Ee8 47. Gk1 j7 48. Jl6 Jxl6 49. Gxl6 Td9 50. Si7 Sxi7 51. hxi7 Axi7 52. Axi7 Wxi7 53. Ak4 Td6+ 54. Kg2 Wg6 55. Bg5 Wxj4 56. Axj4 Txa3 57. Jf5 Wd5 58. Qf3 Txd3 59. Jf6 Wxg4 60. Qxg4 Td5+ 61. Kf1 Eg6 62. Qf3 Exi4 63. Qxd5 Exj4 64. Hxj4 Gg8 65. Cg4 Nf7 66. Bi7 Bxl6 67. Nxl6 Exl6 68. Hxl6 Lxl6 69. Fxl6 Qxl6 70. l4 Qi3 71. Gj2 Qh4 72. Qc4 Ch5 73. Rf4 Qh1+ 74. Eg1 Qh2 75. Qe4 Cxg4 76. Rxg4 Tj9 77. Rg2 Qh3 78. Gi2 Qd7 79. Tj4 Nd6 80. Wxd6 Qxd6 81. Ee1 Rk11 82. Gj2 Tm6 83. Bf4 Qxf6 84. Gf5 Qc6 85. Jb5 Qc5 86. Gpj1 Cl8 87. Gd1 d7 88. Rd2 Rk12 89. Rd5 Qc8 90. Gi3 Rd12 91. Rmd2 Cxi5 92. Tg4 Tj6 93. El3 Ah9 94. Gac1 Axg7 95. Txg7 Gxg7 96. j4 Cf8 97. Gi1 Kf12 98. Ej3 i7 99. Jc5 Ti6 100. Qh1 Gg6 101. Gg4 h6 102. Eg3 Gh5 103. Gih3 Gxg4 104. Gxg4 Qc6 105. Egh3 Ti4+ 106. Ke1 Txg4 107. Qf3 Tg6 108. Qxj7 Cxc5 109. Qj12+ Rg12 110. Qxl10 d6 111. Rxc5 Qxc5 112. Qh10+ Ke11 113. Qxm10 Tg4 114. Ql11+ Jf11 115. Qi11 Tg1+ 116. Kf2 Tg4 117. Qxi7+ g9 118. Qxh6 Qc6 119. Ke1 Tg1+ 120. Ke2 Qg2+ 121. Kd3 Qd5+ 122. Ke2 Qc6 123. Qi5 Tg2+ 124. Kf1 Txd2 125. Gcxd2 Ri12 126. Bi7 Jf10 127. Qg7 Jd8 128. Qk11+ Jf11 129. Bxg9+ Ke12 130. Bxd12 Kxd12 131. Qxf11 Rxi1+ 132. Ke2 Qg2+ 133. Kd3 Qg6+ 134. Ke2 Qi6+ 135. Kf2 Qi2+ 136. Kf3 Qi6+ 137. Kg2 Qg4+ 138. Kh2 Qi4 139. Kg3 Rg1+ 140. Kf2 Qg4 141. Qf12+ Kd11 142. Gc3 Qg2# 

White is checkmated by the Queen.

Next folk to duel: LXIVC. If he/she accepts. ^-^

OK, I made a first attempt to configure my new Chess-variants applet web page for Alpha-Omega Chess. My first attempt is here.

Some things were not clear to me; your move definitions were a bit 'unclean', several moves being mentioned in duplicat. The King's Gambit had e.p. capture amongst its moves, but your drawings don't mention anywhere it can do that, so I deleted that together with the other Pawn moves that were already incorporated in the main move.

The applet still has the same problems as we initially had with WinBoard: 'guardng' and e.p. capture. Currently a Q move that can be guarding will automatically be performed as guarding, although it can of course always be a perfectly legal move of the Queen alone. E.p. capture is now not flagged as possible at all; I would have to overhaul the e.p. logic for that, to allow multiple e.p. squares.

Despite these shortcomings the applet is usable, because it does not enforce legality, and not even turn order. So you can make multiple moves before pressing 'play move', including moving opponent pieces. So if a Q move leads to unwanted displacement of a Rook, just move the Rook back before you press 'Play Move', in a remote game. (If you want the reverse, delete the 'isO3' from the Q move before you start playing; then it will never 'guard' (but also not indicate that you can), and you can move the Rook by hand when you wanted to.) And to perform e.p. capture, first capture the Pawn on the square where it is, and then move the Pawn to where it should end up.