We’ve found some software that lets you enter moves with your mouse, directly on the board. Just click on the piece you want to move, and then on the square to which you want to move it. Easy, no? Try it!
This board won’t save your moves for other people to see. (At least, the documentation says it won’t. We can’t tell.) To make it do that, you need a MuseBlog chessplayer’s account with a password. Then you could log in and play your opponent without having to post your moves for an Administrator to enter. We can make those accounts if there’s enough interest. Note that a valid email address is required.
What do you think? Comments, please:
ThreeTwo Things:1: FIRST POST! WOOT!2:1: The interface looks better.3:2: Neat! I made myself get a draw! XD (you did know the board could be clicked, right?)Isn’t it fun? I think you can erase your game by clearing your browser’s cache. Just refreshing the page doesn’t seem to do it.
Have you noticed that when you click on a piece, the board shows you all the possible places you can move it? The borders of the squares change color.
Yes, and yes! It is so much fun! I think i will get Prism for Firefox so that I can play it off line! ^_^
Clearing your cache? Refreshing the page works fine for me, with Firefox 3.0.10.
That’s odd. I’m using Firefox 3.0.10, too (with Mac OS 10.4.11), but the game sticks around when I do that.
That’s odd… now it is staying when I refresh the page. Wait… I didn’t make those moves. I think someone else’s game appears in post 0. Is it yours? *is confused*
Interesting. It seems Administrators make indelible moves (unless they edit them out of the file, as I just did). I guess that’s another of our unsuspected GAPA powers.
Okay, that’s straightened out. It does indeed clear the last game when I refresh the page. I don’t have to clear my cache.
It goes when I refresh the page.
Cool! But it doesn’t stay there.
Plus it ends up with me laying by myself, which doesn’t work very well.
I will gladly sign up for a chess account. Please?
I’ll play you! Sign me up!
(3) You can learn a lot by playing against yourself. Have you noticed that you can turn the board around?
(4) Piggy: An account is no use unless you’re playing a game with an opponent who also has an account. If you and someone else want to start a game using this software, then I’ll create accounts for both of you.
This is infinently better then the old layout.
I volunteer to be Piggy’s opponent! Not that I’m good, but I could probably lose fairly spectacularly.
I’ll volunteer to play a game with anyone who is interested; unless- do you have to be on at the same time? I assume you can still see the moves even when you refresh the page if you have an account.
Sure! How shall I get an account?
oi, Mr Moon (lol) how good are you at chess?
Okay, since Piggy’s offer was taken up, I will play with anyone else who likes. Anyone?
I’ll play you, Errata! Can we play with Chancellors and Archbishops?
I’ll play a game, athough I don’t know if I’m any good.
Ooh, CHESS!!!!!!!!! Me love chess! Can I play? (I need practice so I can beat Connor~my cousin’s boyfriend, just graduated from high school, is a pro at chess, I mean, seriously! PS Connor isn’t really his name.) Please?
Wow, that’s so cool!!
11- I’ll play you, if you want. I’m not that amazing so you don’t have anything to worry about!
Yay!
what about me?!
Patience, grasshoppers. Creating accounts takes a little time. We’re all at work right now and can’t do more than moderate posts for at least a few more hours.
huh?! GRASSHOPPERS? haha! (so that’s what, one ‘yes’, one ‘not sure’ and one ‘I had a dream about a bug? Very well. I say yes, too. (Quote from the Otherland series by Tad Williams~I luvs!))
I don’t even know how to play chess, but I just beat myself.
How exactly do you make an account?
peary: Click the “Log In” box ot the righthand side of the green bar at the top of the blog. Fill out the form. Wait for the e-mail. Do what it says. Simple! Are you a chessplayer?
Ohh, thanks a lot Robert!
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Yeah, I can play chess (although not very well.