pychess.org has modified the dobutsu shogi piece set for western chess, bless their hearts.

https://github.com/LuffyKudo/Doubutsu-Chess

https://luffykudo.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/dobutsu-chess/

I’ve acquired 4 sets of diagrammatic chess sets as of today! Western, japanese (x3)… i just need to find a sticker set for XongQi and I’ll be all set.

2 of these accounts have been deleted

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/falseWhite - deleted by admin
• https://lemmy.world/u/falseWhite - self-delete by user

Never had any problems with my paid tuta accounts

It’s fine to ask the hotel if they have wired Ethernet in rooms before you book, some do.

Typically wifi, even in the best hotels, can get pretty terrible at peak times.

I’ve looked at the voting patterns and I can’t establish the link you mentioned, the falsewhite accounts are obviously alts/sockpuppets of each other, that is all I can say

43 downvotes across 2 minutes but at a 4 hours earlier then the other downvoting falsewhite accounts.

Why do you think that?

Looks like a normal short term lemmy fight, someone didn’t like what they said in a thread and opened their history and downvoted everything on the first screen. Going back 3 days and the downvotes stop.

• https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:41-6:42
• https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@programming.dev 79 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:38-6:40
• https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.world 87 downvotes in 3 minutes all against shalafi 6:25-6:27, and 6:44-6:45

lemmy.world appears to be their main account, this seems to be the post that triggered them do do their downvoting spree: https://lemmy.world/post/41260627

Looks like the sock puppet master was angry for about 20 minutes, and got tired of manually downvoting. Still pretty terrible vote manipulation making lemmy a hostile place.

@shalafi@lemmy.world

Ok, so instead of one two minute unskippable ad, there will be 24 5 second skippable ads (after 5 seconds)

Oh, I don’t need this to help children! I need this so I don’t forget the moves myself, and to get other adults to enjoy a game or two.

Having a 30 something learn 15 something symbols to play a game or two to see what it is like is a big ask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants

There are many different types of chess out there, and as a game tourist I want to make things easy on myself. Chu Shogi has 21 different symbols for example, it’s going to take a minute to memorize that, and good luck convincing someone else to memorize it to play a few games.

example:

Yeah, my personal style of trying to be clear and complete has been co-opted by the modern bogeyman

Much like Michael Bolton… i was here first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY

That looks really cool! I can’t find it anywhere either

The rule set is interesting, if I ever see it i’ll pick it up for sure!

Plus on lemvotes they display the owning instance of a post/comment, and hackertalks.com is basically only me, so it’s trivial to see how many times someone interacts with me.

lishogi is kinda new (5ish years I think), i was around when it got forked from lichess.

I use lishogi because you don’t need an account and it just works, but I think its pretty niche. It does have a adapted stockfish engine to play against.

Inside japan I think shogiwars is the most popular, but its kinda impenetrable for me, so I just tried it now… they have english in 2026 which is nice! But you can’t change the pieces, however its a real experience worth visiting once.

Have you seen Chu Shogi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_shogi - It’s a whole thing, intense, its on lishogi but without a ai bot to play against, so human vs human only. It would be nice to play chu shogi against a bot to practice, but I don’t know where to do that.

Fair enough, you got me, the cabal of out of print niche chess marketers has been discovered.

FWIW I recognize you, so I looked up the stats of our interactions when I saw your message to illustrate we have a shared history.

I want to know about self documenting chess pieces, I want to ask people if they know about them and where I can find them. Please help me phrase this in a understandable way.

How can I have this conversation without making it sound like a advertisement? I’m not trying to drive sales of anything, which would be kinda impossible given most of this stuff is out of print.

I’m just trying to illustrate diagrammatic chess options I’m aware of, and I want to find more. It’s a very niche area. Finding more options is hard.

I would hope by this point you would recognize me (you have voted on 259 of my posts and comments) and realize I’m not some bot.

Happily lishogi.org lets you select the diagrammatic pieces which makes playing online really nice.

Sadly lichess.org does not have the same diagrammatic options!

Sadly the Dobutsu Shogi (in the greenwood) is out of print right now.

I’d love to see a better western chess option

And I’d love to have any chinese chess option at all!

Obviously I can learn the symbols for a single game myself, but if I want to play with other people or teach them how to play that is quite a learning curve!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)