Miniature Chess Board (updated to v2)

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 13 Mar 2006, 16:55

Here's a smaller edition of the Chess Board, made specifically for SinbadEV's Chess Mod

This map has been updated to version 2, fixing a problem with playing top versus bottom according to official Chess rules (thanks to Chocapic for pointing that out). It looks the same as the above screenshots, except that the chess board has been rotated 90 degrees. Download MiniChess_v2 Here

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 13 Mar 2006, 20:04

fizwizz is not mean

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looks really awesome , ill try it out later at night

(the shadows look quite cool on the screenies too eheh)

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 13 Mar 2006, 23:34

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (I typed all of those, no copy and pasteing even)

this is teh awsomes!!!

I espesially like tha they look so pretty with shadows and shineyness to them... as soon as I get XP back on my computer I'll be able to make the nicer looking chess pieces... stupid me not knowing how to use linux...

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 17 Mar 2006, 22:39

lol fizwizz i dont think u noticed but the map has a small inperfection:
The board is sideways, playing up vs down there is now way u can place the kings in the right squares, only sideways

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 18 Mar 2006, 00:17

LOL

it's not sideways... you are just starting with player 1 as the wrong color silly

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 18 Mar 2006, 12:16

SinbadEV wrote:LOL

it's not sideways... you are just starting with player 1 as the wrong color silly

lol sinbad, host a game on the map then load it with aai.
after entering the map stop and look at the squares try to place one king legally on the map using the up and down sides!!! lol u cant!
if you want to place white king down you cant cuz the e1 square is white and not black! nor can you place the black king down cause it would have to be then on d1 (transpositional from e8) wich is black!!! (its suppost to be white).
in my game last night i had to have the board sideways to have the squares color ok!
yet another hint to prove what i say :
go play on this map then on your map and watch the square colors , and you'll see one map is sideways towards the other.

As for chess boards colors rule it goes like this : the a1 square (lower first) must be black in order for a good piece positioning ! wich isnt in this case

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 18 Mar 2006, 19:25

I still don't get it, if white starts on the top then everything falls into the correct place... are you telling me that having black start on top when displaying chess boards vertically is some kind of unbreakable tradition and that you can't wrap your brain around using it the other way... I just don't understand what the heckl you are talking about...

set player 0 as white and player 1 as black and the kings start in the correct places automatically using fixed start locations

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 18 Mar 2006, 22:29

SinbadEV wrote:I still don't get it, if white starts on the top then everything falls into the correct place... are you telling me that having black start on top when displaying chess boards vertically is some kind of unbreakable tradition and that you can't wrap your brain around using it the other way... I just don't understand what the heckl you are talking about...

set player 0 as white and player 1 as black and the kings start in the correct places automatically using fixed start locations

you still dont get it
the square colors!!!...are inverted!!!!!
as the board is simetrical for up and down it doesnt matter who starts where.. lol
sinbad pick your map or a chess board at your home at compare the squares colors!!!! you will see that they are inverted and they will be fine if you see this map sideways

As for chess boards colors rule it goes like this : the a1 square (lower first) must be black in order for a good piece positioning ! wich isnt in this case

Weaver · Post by **Weaver** » 18 Mar 2006, 23:09

For clarity

The chess board is always this way around, white and black pieces can swap top and bottom though. The white queen starts on a white square, black queen on a black squre.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 18 Mar 2006, 23:17

okay... I see what you are saying... I had to download a picture of a chess board and rotate it 90 degrees and 180 degree and I see what you mean... the board is either rotated 90 degrees, flipped vertically or inverted... weird... we should probably harass fizwizz...

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 19 Mar 2006, 00:19

the board does only need to be flipped 90 degrees either way and itll be perfect

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well you prolly dont play chess much sinbad or prolly didnt play it in that map on spring yet cuz the first time i played it felt uberly weird having the bishops with switched colors and everything of the such!
and then i tried to figure out the piece colors on the up side and i still calculated them to be wrong and went wth ? oh.. sideways flipped board! lol!

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 19 Mar 2006, 01:10

odd that I have created a mod for playing spring, yet have only played chess less then 10 times in the last 3 years... and seldom enough before that...

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 19 Mar 2006, 14:29

well for what i see im the only one who plays it spring , but when i host a game of it i generally allways have clients eheh

its nice playing in spring once in a while since i quit chess sometime ago, and has some pretty 3d graphics in spring

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I still want the marble pieces!!

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 19 Mar 2006, 22:59

No need to harass me! I don't play Chess a terrible lot either, and being only a casual Chess player, I don't get bothered about the exact alignment of the board...
I'll have a fixed version uploaded tomorrow

[edit]
The map has been realigned for 'canonical' top v. bottom Chess games. Download here

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 20 Mar 2006, 21:15

thank you my lord!

Spring RTS Engine

Miniature Chess Board (updated to v2)

Miniature Chess Board (updated to v2)