RicOlie_2

Ah, yes, it's there. I tend to miss details like that. :P

February 24:

A.D. 1208: Traditional date for St. Francis' reception of his vocation in a chapel outside of Assisi.

A.D. 1510: Pope Julius II excommunicates the Republic of Venice.

A whole republic...I guess they made him mad. :D

A.D. 1582: Pope Gregory XIII announces the new calendar (the Gregorian and modern calendar) as a replacement of the less accurate Julian calendar.

Ln-28

DuracellEnergizer said:

BERU: (punching Ben playfully in the chin) Don't be such a stranger in the future, Ben, okay?

 Did I just miss the part where you introduced Obi-Wan as "Ben"? Or did Beru just decide to nickname him all of a sudden? :P

Oops, I mixed it up with the silver general. I will move to 29 then. I also forgot to clarify your move. Your GB is already on 15, so did you mean 16?

C-30

Ln-26

Regarding the lion, I don't know that it's a problem. It's a powerful piece close to the enemy, but it's limited because it can only move two squares at a time. I think it's a balanced piece because of this, but if you think it needs to go, we'll save it for a version with just powerful pieces.

I could go with the RC/SC piece as well. The gold cannon doesn't do much anyway and I've found that it often gets in the way rather than helping, but the lance/RC is often useful.

Ln-24

L*25

Ln-26

Knx24+Ln

February 23:

A.D. 303: Emperor Diocletian orders a general persecution of Christians.

A.D. 1455: Estimated date for the first printing of a book (the Bible) by Johannes Gutenberg.

A.D. 1997: The first successful cloning of an adult animal takes place in Scotland. The result of the cloning is a sheep named Dolly.

C-28

Got it. SC-24

Whaa??

Do we have different boards again? :P

EDIT: Or did you make a bad move that I didn't see?

GCx20+SC

P-18

Gsx14...and this time it's on purpose. ;)

I think you're right about the fire demon. I'm thinking of making a board that's two or three squares wide but about the same length as the one we're using now. Maybe a weak fire demon-type piece could work there since there would be more pieces. Another idea with the fire demon is that it could only burn the piece in front of it, allowing it to capture up to two pieces. And if we wanted, we could make its demoted side a pawn or something to balance it out. But you're probably right about keeping it out of Ito Shogi. We do want to keep it Ito Shogi after all, so it's best to keep it similar to the original.

Your kirin is already on 10 (see post 1001). If you meant either K-8 or K-12, then GC-23.

This seems like something that should be fairly easy, so I figured I would mention it. I don't know how many people besides myself would be interested in it, but it would be nice to receive notifications of new threads in certain forums. However, it's just a small thing and I can easily live without it if it isn't easy to implement.

It happened again with Warbler's chess thread.

I'm noting every time it happens here so it's easier to figure out any patterns. And there may be something in common between the threads that only Jay can figure out.

I've had this happen to me almost a dozen times in the past week or two. I get a message that I "can't connect to the server" like I do when I have no internet connection. I still have access to all the other sites I have open, however. I've noticed that this usually happens within an hour or so of noon (MST time). It seems to be irregular though, as I've been unable to connect for an hour some times and had no problem around noon other times.

And quit complainin' because it's a lot of work to build a website from scratch and we can't have it all.