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Talk:Janus Chess

message: Are there specific pieces that are used to play this on an actual chess board, or do people generally improvise somehow? What is the usual method. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 23:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is this implemented with physical chess pieces? 

message: The game appears to have been named "Janus Chess", so, presumably, the article should be at Janus Chess rather than Janus chess. Hyacinth (talk) 10:28, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Problem solved, for now. Hyacinth (talk) 04:18, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Article title capitalization
Talk:AFI

message: Articles listed in disambiguation pages normally have a short description—see MOS:DAB for examples. A description beside each item helps readers disambiguate abbreviations. For example, if someone is looking here for what "AFI" in the context of pregnancy, they can identify the "Amniotic Fluid Index" article based on the description.+mt 03:17, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Descriptions
Talk:Extinction chess

message: How is the king not a special piece here? It's royal, after all, as losing it loses the game. So is the queen. Double sharp (talk) 14:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It means that the king can be captured, unlike in normal chess.  That means that it is not illegal to move into check, or move through check when castling.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully my parenthetical explanation has cleared up matters for others who might misinterpret the sentence like me. ;-) Double sharp (talk) 06:30, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: An interesting variant might be to treat the last of each kind of piece as royal (I would personally allow royal pieces to pass through, but not land on, attacked squares) and make the goal checkmate again. Double sharp (talk) 05:36, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  King
Talk:Arai Helmet

message: I don't agree with this POV Dispute.  All of Arai's helmets do meet or exceed Snell tests (a fact).  As for the statement about them being one of the top motorcycle helmet makers, just ask any person who has taken the time to look into purchasing a motorcycle helmet, without a price constraint.  They will always tell you that Arai is one of the safest helmets on the market (at least the higher end Arai Models like the Quantum 2 and the one more expensive than that.  I'm not using price as a judge.
If there is no comment on this article, I will remove the POV tag after 7 days.Bubbleboys 13:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV issue disagreement
Talk:Checkless chess

message: Either the article should be at "Checkless Chess" or the article should read "Checkless chess". Hyacinth (talk) 11:35, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Caps

message: "... since getting the king trapped in the enemy camp may subject it to an untimely checkmate." Exactly how does chess define "untimely"? 71.162.113.226 (talk) 14:27, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  what time is a good time?
Talk:Dice chess

message: If one uses the standard chess configuration, I would think that the dice should have the probability weights as much as the figures on the board.
Example: there are 8 pawns at the start, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, 1 king, 1 queen and the same should be on a dice (say, a 16 dice)
--Pier4r (talk) 21:57, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about "On each die, the 1 represents a pawn, 2 a knight, 3 a bishop, 4 a rook, 5 a queen, and 6 a king." 

message: Another approach rather than a dice is to have a deck of cards with the figures (a player may prepare it as well). In that way it is easier to have random picks for the pieces that are still playing. 
Say 70 cards (70 because a chess game is normally finished within 60 moves). Each card represent one piece. Each player prepares their own deck. At the start of the game the opponent shuffles the player's deck. At every turn the player pick a card, if one of the pieces corrisponding to the card can move (or capture), the player plays it, otherwise discards the card and picks another. If the deck is exhausted and the game is not finished, the discarded cards get reshuffled in a new deck and a player continues. 
Surely there is such a variant already, how is it called? Pier4r (talk) 19:13, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question alternative to a dice with cards?
Talk:Jetan

message: There are some useful references I found while working on The Chessmen of Mars relating to Jetan, which might be used here. As this article focus is out of my area I have not reworked this article, but perhaps interested parties might look at the material in the novel article page and consider what could be used. Happy to help in any way I can here. Mesmacat (talk) 12:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Chessmen of Mars

message: The text on the book lists the pieces "in order, as they stand upon the board in the first row, from left to right of each player." (sic) This means that each Chief faces the opposing Princess, not the opposing Chief.
I updated the text because the Chief should be at the left of the Princess. The diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetan_Board.svg) should also be updated because the Chief and the Princess at the top are switched.
Yibup (talk) 17:14, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but that will require the image author  to do, since the orange Princess will need a definition outline. (Other option is to make a new image using different icons.) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 03:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be fixed, now. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 03:01, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks great -- thanks! Ihardlythinkso (talk) 04:23, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Board and pieces 

message: Fredrik Ekman (referenced in the footnotes) published a comprehensive book devoted to Jetan, including detailed history of the origin, references in the media, rules, variants and sample games. I couldn't figure out how to include it without tying it specifically to the article text; perhaps someone could do it  Anyway, the details are:
 Jetan: The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs
 Fredrik Ekman
 Format: softcover (7 x 10)
 Pages: 211
 Bibliographic Info: 149 illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index
 Copyright Date: 2022
 pISBN: 978-1-4766-8793-3
 eISBN: 978-1-4766-4761-6
 Imprint: McFarland
WHPratt (talk) 18:14, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dedicated Publication
Talk:Kung-Fu Chess

message: Shizmoo did not have adware, but I think this page and any page that refers to shizmoo should mention the fact that it's dead now.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.161.3.28 (talk) 17:49, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Shizmoo didn't have adware so I undid that change.
Designer1993 (talk) 23:45, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malware 
Talk:Fischer random chess numbering scheme

message: The article needs to be moved/renamed.  "Enumbering" is not a word.  There is numbering and there is enumerate, but not "enumbering".  It needs to be numbering.  Bubba73 (talk), 18:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: .  Bubba73 (talk), 14:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move/rename 

message: The strategy in Direct Derivation is vague. It is not apparent whether after each step one is to use the number obtained from the division or the remainder in subsequent steps. I assume it is the result of the division. If this is indeed the case it should be explicitly stated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.10.46 (talk) 23:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vague strategy in "Direct Derivation" 
Talk:Capablanca random chess

message: Please discuss the dispute here on talk.  Try to reach an agreement. DurovaCharge! 21:54, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 week full page protection 

message: Either the article should be at "Capablanca Random Chess" or the article should read "Capablanca random chess". Hyacinth (talk) 11:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It s/b "Capablanca Random Chess". --IHTS (talk) 12:16, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You're helping me, so I hope I am helping you, but "should be" isn't the most convincing reason. Hyacinth (talk) 22:42, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Could track down sources, Scharnagl's book & online, but am not gonna. ("Capablance Chess" is correct. "Fischer Random Chess" is correct. The idea of randomizing Capablanca Chess was borrowed from Fischer Random Chess, so even logically, "Capablanca Random Chess" is correct. The two games have  similar randomization technique, per Scharnagl [I even had direct correspondence w/ him re a polyhedral dice randomization method for his game, but who cares?!].)  --IHTS (talk) 03:33, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Caps

message: In starting positions were the chancellor is in the corner. Shouldn't it be technically possible to castle with the chancellor? 
Is this even possible in Capablanca 960. 
Sunny3113 (talk) 20:32, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castling with the Chancellor 
Talk:Circular chess

message: I just looked at the article and (1) it needs more links.  I added several.  (2) the theory section needs better references.  It sounds like it could be original research.  (3) more information on tactics and checkmates would be nice. Bubba73 (talk), 03:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: King and rook (right triangle mate) doesn't require a corner though, only an edge. Zowayix001 (talk) 22:49, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  article needs 

message: This section is vague. Circular Chess is really attested in Persia since 10th century by al-Mas‘ûdî as ar-Rûmîya. Reference: H.J.R.Murray, History of Chess (1913), pp342-343.
It is wrong to say that the rules did not survive. The rules have been recorded, see Murray. The moves of the men was played accordingly to Shatranj rules for the essential.
That form of circular Chess was never attested in Middle Age in Europe. What was attested was a completely different game, Escaques, a zoodiacal inspired game which used a circular board too, but very different and was loosely related to Chess.
Then, it should be better to name that reference that David Reynolds came across for a game being played in the Middle Ages.
Moreover, if this mediaeval circular chess would exist, it would have been very different since Queen and Bishops were moving very differently in Middle Ages than today.
In short, this section would deserve a revisit.Cazaux (talk) 17:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and rules 

message: For at least the Modern variant, the article claims that the starting position is obtained by cutting the board in half and joining the back ranks. However, the picture shows a black square for the right-hand side corner [of the square board]. Should the layout depicted be changed to place the Q's rank counter-clockwise to the K's to ensure a white right-hand side corner? Webdrone (talk) 18:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting position 

message: After Dec 18th bunch of edits "History" section doesn't make sense as a text, never mind proper citations. I would've edited it back into proper grammatical and punctuational shape, except I have no idea what the editor was trying to say.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.227.123.52 (talk) 13:35, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section
Talk:Fanorona

message: The image of the board has too many diagonal lines. It should be like this: http://laire.dy.fi/t/Fanorona.svg. Jlaire (talk) 23:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't logged in in ages and I just saw a message to that effect from a different user. I will correct the image when I get a chance. (By the way, I blame Partlett since I was just using his book as a reference! :)--PilotPrecise (talk) 20:52, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I just noticed that your  was correct and User:Mysid made a mistake when vectorizing it! You (or someone else) can just copy the version I linked to above, I made it by modifying the .svg-file. (I don't know how to go about replacing it and don't have time atm. :) Jlaire (talk) 21:06, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I'm a newcomer, but I think I uploaded Jlaire's corrected graphic okay. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 14:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The image is incorrect 

message: The French Wikipedia has an article on Fanorona with different rules from the English.  Personally, I like the French rules better.  The French rules are the same, except that (1) capturing moves do _not_ have to be made over non-capturing ones, and (2) capturing involves taking _all_ stones in continuation before or behind the movement of the capturing stone, not just one of them.  If you can read French, see the [1] reference on that page.  66.102.65.42 (talk) 01:50, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different rules in French! 

message: The concepts of weak and strong intersections are not mentioned after they are introduced. What role do they play? If none,  I suggest removing the definition because it is confusing. At least as I first read it, I took it to be an intrinsic property of an intersection whether it was strong or weak, meaning that there are certain intersections from which diagonal moves are forbidden. This turns out not to be the case - whether an intersection is weak or strong is a contingent property of the instant position.Bill (talk) 04:44, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? The strong intersections are the ones touched by the diagonal lines of the board. The weak ones are not. It depends only on the board, not on the current position. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:50, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Weak and strong intersections

message: Does this mean that as soon as each player has captured one or more of the opponent's pieces, the game ends in a draw?  
If this is correct, maybe the article should state this explicitly.
Or does this actually mean that the game ends when one player captures all the opponent's pieces that were on the board when they began their turn??? (Which is something different.)2601:200:C000:1A0:4CBA:C7AC:F663:37A2 (talk) 02:22, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused by "The game ends when one player captures all stones of the opponent."
Talk:Kerasotes Theatres

message: The entire fourth paragraph seems to have been inserted by a possible employee or former employee. The simple opening sentence, in my opinion, justifies the tag. A company is not generally "especially known" for it's inner workings. We won't get into Enron here, though...
I relate to folks who have to work for crappy employers, but this is, after all, an encyclopedia and all those claims should be sourced.
Alcalde 13:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Bias
Talk:Havannah (board game)

message: Computational intelligence: using a mix of 
* zero-learning as in AlphaZero
* boardsize invariance thanks to fully convolutional neural networks (as in U-Net) and Convolutional_neural_network#Pooling  
a team at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Artificial_Intelligence_Research, National_Dong_Hwa_University, University_of_the_Littoral_Opal_Coast, Lamsade and others successfully implemented a bot playing super-human level at Havannah:
http://littlegolem.net/jsp/info/player.jsp?plid=138065
The program notably played surprising openings, leading to very short wins.
The present contributor is part of that team, so I do not modify the page myself, I just discuss here.
2A01:E0A:544:29F0:4A8:44E4:851:F90B (talk) 08:10, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The list of authors is incomplete in that page. I don't fix as i am one of the missing ones :-) 86.254.162.206 (talk) 13:11, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Talk:Princess Sumaya bint Hassan

message: This article seems to have been written by a paid public-relations company. It is full of bold fount, oddly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:7C87:4F00:D411:5B6C:2706:B6F6 (talk) 11:12, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam 
Talk:Shannon switching game

message: A picture or three would be tremendously useful. Kilyle 13:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A Picture, Please

message: I formerly only knew the design as implemented here, where the players do not short and cut, but instead always connect points (with each player having his own set of points). Yes, this representation is equivalent to that of the Shannon Switching Game, but, at the first glance, the playfields looks very different.
Maybe someone could come up with a depiction of the Gale Game as I (and probably also a number of other people) know it, and then even write a short explanation why they are equivalent? I mean, it's obvious for me, but that doesn't count as a proof (at least that's what my math teacher told me :-)). --Klaws (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Gale Game design 

message: I have been looking for a paper of Shannon describing this paper for a while, and couldn't find it.
Does anyone know which paper it was? יובל מדר (talk) 12:31, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The first published reference was in Martin Gardner's column in the Oct. 1958 Scientific American, where he described a machine Shannon built in 1951 for playing Gale (which he called Bird Cage).  Gardner didn't cite any sources.  I have a few of Shannon's papers from 1949-1950, and there's no mention of the game in any of them. Maybe because it didn't lead to anything useful or proveable.Sbalfour (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where was this game first described?
Talk:Gonnect

message: There is something wrong with this statement: "All the rules of Go apply, including that passing is not allowed". In the game of Go, either player may pass at any stage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29#Passing  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.212.94.4 (talk) 15:50, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

message: On Firefox, but not on Chrome (recent released versions), the example image of a Gonnect game is broken into horizontal strips, separated by vertical whitespace. Since this image is generated by a Wikipedia macro (starting with the string "{{Goban 13x13"), I suspect that the macro or its usage has a bug on Firefox. I don't have the time to learn about this macro, but I post this here in case someone else does understand it and can fix the problem. David Spector (talk) 14:58, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example broken into horizontal strips
Talk:Quarto (board game)

message: Added an {unreferenced} tag as the article lacks any citations. Notably, Blaise Müller is cited as inventor but no source is given; he has no WP entry at this time. It's mentioned that there are "many editions" of the game, but it's unclear whether/in what way the rules vary between editions. Are the rules as stated derived from a particular edition? Inquiring minds want to know. - Arithmeticon (talk) 06:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  References? 
Talk:TAMSK

message: It would be nice to add a little discussion on the origins of the name, TAMSK.  many of the names of GIPF Project games seem to have some origin other than simply being nonsense words.  Skotte (talk) 00:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Also appropriate here might be a mention of the TAMSK potentials fFor GIPF.  Skotte (talk) 00:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Potentials
Talk:Snow angel

message: Snow Angels were invented by Anna Thomas in 1904 when she fell onto the ground, on her back. Because she was quite clumsy, she was unable to get up after her fall, and squirmed around for a minute on the ground.  After she eventually got up, she realized that her misfortune had created an angelic figure in the snow.  
:Uh? Where is this from, a joke? If not please give relliable source.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.140.249.116 (talk) 12:00, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Invention

message: They are also available in Ireland which this instruction page from RTÉ confirms. They are a very common occurrence when it snows. It may be useful for describing snow angel methods for anyone who wants to expand the article. Also see this page on the British TV presenter Phillip Schofield which features a photo of him making one at his house. --➨♀♂Candlewicke  ST   19:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish/instruction page 
Talk:Quarter (urban subdivision)

message: This is a WP:SUBSTUB, yes, but it's not lacking content - it is specificed (administrative use). Expand it - it is surely notable, with articles on several other non-English wikis, don't delete.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  13:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I removed the speedy and added the article to my watch list. Please bring the article up to at least "good stub" criteria. ---J.S  (T/C) 18:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It's not really a country subdivision, but an urban (city) one.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country? 

message: In some cities: Warszawa or Kraków "dzielnica" is subcommune level of local govenment, with its own council, but dzielnica has much more limited authories, then commune. We say it is supporting local government. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.238.106.139 (talk) 22:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dzielnica in Warszawa and Kraków
Talk:Chomp

message: there's a good article on this in the July 22, 2006 Science News. It has some very interesting pictures of slices of the strategy landscape for 3-row chomp, which show a similarity to crystal growth patterns (only in this case, it's winning positions "growing" from winning positions that are one move away). If we could get some pictures like this for this article, it would be great. The people who discovered these pictures are Adam Landsberg and Eric Friedman. --190.56.47.2 17:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  good article 

message: On smaller screens the "example game" graphics is rendered wrong (the lines of circles are broken).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.98.34.37 (talk) 06:21, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've replaced it with an image. --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:13, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Example game
Talk:AFP

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Oppose The vast majority of the links to AFP intend the news agency Agence France-Presse. Ewlyahoocom 08:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh? Look at links in Main space. --Una Smith 16:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Someone who knows more about how to edit Wikipedia than I do should add "air filled porosity" as another entry under AFP disambiguation/definition (as it relates to horticulture--orchids in particular).  24.106.207.222 (talk) 20:35, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air filled porosity (orchids: growing media)