noursix: Congrats! Sleep well in the future :-)

at first: it is sadly that gothic chess will be removed here.

however you have to look at two things in my opinion.
1) Gothic Chess will be replaced by Capablanca Random Chess
2) The problems which caused the removal are not the game itself, but the inventor.

So I can understand Filips decision (he is right in my opinion) and I myself will not prolong gothicchess.at after the one-year period. If somebody wants to take the domain earlier please contact me.

EdTrice: http://brainking.com/de/News

Thad: I am not a judge, dear friend. I do not know what got "public", but my opinion is the following: As you can not stop using program help here you can not prevent the copy and paste of messages, postings and so on.
Players and Boards have to live with this facts.

Any way: When I make a copy&paste from steamrollers to e.g. my website I can not see any point why i can not do this.

Is it now new here? The moderator has to approve postings? If this is so i will remove this board from my favourite.
(That is not against you, Walter!)

Guys, can we please discuss now about Gothic Chess and not about what some Gothic Chess players whispered here?
Compared to other boards this board here often go into a flaming board.
So, please calm down and lets discuss about Gothic Chess! Many beginners asked me what in my opnion is a good opening system (NOT theory!) for Gothic Chess. Any hints?

EdTrice: We can dispute if Off-Topic is "allowed" or not. In fact bumble said, that this all was off-topic before his postings.
But I can not see any doubt where you must show one game of bumble which he lost and touch that bumble does not play many gothic chess games.
I do not want to comment Pedros postings - I have my own meaning of all what here happened, but you should think a little bit: You was banned, now unbanned, came back ... and what is it now?

Nice combination using the power of the Janus
http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=586425&i=59

Chessmaster1000: but please without any worry about any sh* laws or patents please.

redsales: (leko) - is he now gothic chess player or just wrong board?

Pedro Martínez: yes in the usa. but the usa is a strange country. in europe there is another way, not such silly, all commercial ...
but sometimes i think the majority of us-americans is thumb ... :-(

redsales: Ed was great to make GC popular and he is developing a great program (in which i am not interested because i just want to play)
and it is eds right to make money with it. but if he tries it in such a way he will not help to popularize GC.
and maybe ed shoud think about it: europe is not the usa

Pedro Martínez: you mean to protect this gothic chess rules? LOL! Really?

redsales: Damn, what is this for a *hit? A game can be patented? And its not a new game, 10x8 board is well known, figures (in another position) too. so what? i considering this patent as loo paper, nothing else.
ed trice can protect his program of course. but not "his" game ....

Pedro Martínez: Ok. Then this "patent" is such as a loo paper? ;-)

Pedro Martínez: Caissus showed me this - http://register.epoline.org/espacenet/regviewer?AP=EP20020250929&PN=&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=REG - thats interesting. but what does it mean??

Caissus: In my opinion (after some research) nobody has to take care about this patent.

redsales: of course the public rumour was not started by cerebro ... sorry if there is any misunderstandign!

gentlemen! the whole case and the discussion about it - please keep it in fellowships or in private messages, but not here in open boards! what would interested new players think???

EdTrice: Really? Now, then brainking will not be very attractive for me ...

But I do not believe it ...

tedbarber: why not playing a draw? when i am good in a match or tournament i often offer draw in positions which are a little bit better.
but the most opponent rejected these offers and i almost won.
i play many draws, but not short. alomost 20-30 moves. thats ok in my opinion.
to play draw is ok.

Nasmichael: Thank you! I am doing my job and hope in a well way.
Every evening i will update games and results. if someone finds errors in games (pgn, online) please send me a message or a mail to info@gothicchess.at

by the way: i will add english in general as a language of gothicchess.at too. why that? because some people asked me ...

I am schachmdmt from Vienna and I am following up the big tournament at my homepage http://www.gothicchess.at/ .
There you can watch the sections, games (comments planned; online you can replay themoutside of brainking) and so on. Klick on the main menu point "Trice's Turnier (DE)" for using german language , "Trice's Tourn. (ENG)" for english.I am planning pages about the players with games too. If you want, you can send me a pic or text or annotations or whatever interesting to

info@gothicchess.at

Please help me by sending finished results, games, annotations and so on!

Yours sincerely

schachmdmt

Dresden: have a look at http://www.gothicchess.at/ - i am building up the tournament revival there.

Sumerian: thanks sumerian! i added the two links!

At my website http://www.gothicchess.at/ you can find a list with links related to gothic chess! plese let me know if you know more, either with a message here or per mail: info@gothicchess.at !

CardinalFlight: in will change the pieces soon

new there at gothicchess.at:
- chapter with games (intro)
- first games (for testing java tool)
(all in german)

Well, i read the discussion here and in other fellowshipfs and set up v0.2 of the rules of gothic chess (in german) at gothicchess.at - i added some pics too.
and please send me links about gothic chess related sites to info@gothicchess.at - i will add them in my link list!

Dresden: i took the basic text from the chess rules of wikipedia - and i started to change it and to add the gc rules. well, the text is not individual yet, there will be some corrections and i will add some pics (diagrams and so on)
and of course i will link to other gc related sites! please wait!

gotti2000: Yes, it must be Archbishop ... but in general i am not sure if i should translate these words. teh english words are looking "cooler", but anyway, i will add these translations of course. but in any case i would say, that the notation should be A and C.
in austria i only know you and me playing gc, and at the vienna university of technology some interested, but at the moment non playing. where are you from exactly? please mail me at president@gothicchess.at

At gothicchess.at - section "Regeln" (rules) I wrote the first version of the rules for gothic chess, of course in german (gothicchess.at will be mainly a german speaking site).
in the next days i will add some pics there. german-speaking people here - please correct me if you see errors!
http://www.gothicchess.at/ started yesterday - so the rules are the first content in it (and some links)

to noursix:
best wishes to you and of course to your wife too! i think i will not often in against you and her in gothic and janus!

to redsales:
Best wishes too! You stay far away from home over christmas?

to all:
A very merry xmas and a happy new year, lets hope it is a good one, without any fear!

without a credit card a little bit hard ...

if someone knows if it is possible to get a janus board/figures in köln or bonn please tell me! i will stay there from 02.-07.12.

cheers! please flame about cheating and so on not at this board ... i think we cannot solve this problem and when it should be discussed, then not here, PLEASE!

at the moment i can play gothic chess only with a "virtual" board - and i will soon order a board and figures from ed. a gothic chess program is less interesting for me - more interesting would be a database (such as chessbase - maybe gothicchessbase). Does everyone know one? Or is there no database out?
Interesting would be a PGNviewer for gothic chess so thatgames gan be comfortable replayed with comments on the web. Is there anything? If not it would be a nice project for me when i have time for that.

thank you, for your "nice game" ... I am lucky that i can play "nice games" as an abolutely beginner! :-)))

that's my opinion too. unfortunately only perpetual check ... :-(

thanks for the infos. as i said i could not verify the infos i get so i asked here. so all is ok and we can play and need not to discuss about that. thanks fencer!

I got the following information (which i can not verify): "Chess Federation has a newsletter you can get in your email. I think ChessCarpenter writes it. Anyway they mentioned the article on Chessville.com in this one but at the end was a message from Ed. He still can't sign on to BrainKing. This could be bad for all of us."

That's why I am asking.

is ed trice now able to login? i am a little bit wondering whe he does not move in the tournament "Remembering Jestone" ...

maybe fencer should reduce the amount of players in each team for warped space. in my opinion 5 are too much, 4 are ok.
in the fact it was hard to get the 6 players for the team for the gothic team tournament. i wrote many messages ... in my opinion 4 players each team are enough.

ask fencer. maybe he can add a team into the running tournament, i do not know.

suppose it's too late now for joining the team tournament - it has just started!

can you tell me if i could made in this game http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=496689 more than perpetual check at the end? i did not found anything.

Dear Chessmaster1000, i removed you from my enemies, and I sent you a message. The reasons were clear and we will discuss them in a private way, not here.
But with the other points in your postings I agree with you.

In the subject I am using a statement of Walter and I think, this board should be only for Gothic Chess questions, but not others you discussed here. Please notice, that I am not interested in your damned fight in the last 100-200 postings!
But I am interested in performing Gothic Chess and building up an german speaking homepage about Gothic Chess. Since September, when I tried Gothic at first, it became more and more fascinating for me so that braining is getting my gothic chess playing board, not even chess (chess was the reason why i at first joined brainking).
So, I want to build up a german speaking homepage about gothic chess in the next future (at first i have to finish some other projects). If you want tto help me or to partipcate themes at this planned site please contact me at markus.nemetz@1000schoen.at
Another question: How many Gothic Ches Clubs are in Europe? Suppose not much, in Austria I suppose none. If any interested Austrian read this please contact me - it would be funny to build a club up.
Ant at last: I am thinking about ordering some boards and figures from gothicchess.org - so please if you are interested too please contact me - we can save money (Ed Trice offered a special prize) and shipping costs!

And at last: Thank you very much, Ed, for this game!!! And you, Fencer, for brainking at all!!!