Lyxx
Expert
Hi guys
As someone who has organised chess lessons for guild members since the first month of playing UOF, I have finally decided to draw some attention to what can be done to make the "mini game" of chess even more enjoyable on this server. I am encouraged by seeing poker blossoming - it's a nice code implementation - and with just a few tweaks, the conditions for playing chess could be greatly boosted too. As it is right now, playing chess is something you really have to want to do in order to tolerate the flaws.
First of, no one plays chess like this:
We play chess from this angle:
However, the trained chess player will notice a problem now. The white queen is not on her colour if placed on d1. The squares are wrong. Can you admins please flip the board so the squares become like this:
Now the set-up is correct (have not added first and eight rank pieces to draw attention to the square colours).
However, there is a final issue which is very tricky to play with. It can also be fixed easily. The board needs to be enlarged so it is more something like this:
If these changes are made, then chess will have great conditions and we will be able to do some serious chess training on this server.
Optional design bonus would be adding numbers and letters at the board edge (the chess coordinates). It makes it easier to analyse books from a chess book for example, and to talk about the game.
If you want to hear more suggestions, I also have some for the Nujhelm chess board, but I will leave that for later - first let's talk about this.
I know I'm not the only happy chess player on this server.
Thoughts?
As someone who has organised chess lessons for guild members since the first month of playing UOF, I have finally decided to draw some attention to what can be done to make the "mini game" of chess even more enjoyable on this server. I am encouraged by seeing poker blossoming - it's a nice code implementation - and with just a few tweaks, the conditions for playing chess could be greatly boosted too. As it is right now, playing chess is something you really have to want to do in order to tolerate the flaws.
First of, no one plays chess like this:
We play chess from this angle:
However, the trained chess player will notice a problem now. The white queen is not on her colour if placed on d1. The squares are wrong. Can you admins please flip the board so the squares become like this:
Now the set-up is correct (have not added first and eight rank pieces to draw attention to the square colours).
However, there is a final issue which is very tricky to play with. It can also be fixed easily. The board needs to be enlarged so it is more something like this:
If these changes are made, then chess will have great conditions and we will be able to do some serious chess training on this server.
Optional design bonus would be adding numbers and letters at the board edge (the chess coordinates). It makes it easier to analyse books from a chess book for example, and to talk about the game.
If you want to hear more suggestions, I also have some for the Nujhelm chess board, but I will leave that for later - first let's talk about this.
I know I'm not the only happy chess player on this server.
Thoughts?
