[E4EC] Piece sets

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Players can use these piece sets

Piece sets

Playing chess in the club continues via email.

Some of the players in the club uses the graphical format below to receive their opponents' moves. Others use plain text messages, others use PGN.

This page is for those who use the html message format, instead of plain text and PGN. (These settings can be changed anytime by the players). For players using the html format, the server generates the changed game diagram after each move in html format.
Using an html compliant email client or web service is necessary to use this feature. All the modern email clients support displaying standard html messages. Players who use an email client that doesn't support html message format won't be able to use this feature. They receive their opponents' moves, or whole games in plain text or in PGN format instead of the graphical boards. They may need a different software to display the boards. For example ECTool is a right software for them.

Players can choose which piece set they want to use in their graphical boards generated by the chess server.

Piece set #1:

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H

Piece set #2 (thanks to Gergo Macsi, mgrg@freemail.hu):

Piece set #3 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #4 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #5 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #6 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #7 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #8 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #9 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #10 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #11 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #12 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #13 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #14 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #15 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #16 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #17 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #18 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #19 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #20 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #21 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #22 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #23 (made by Minusz8):

Piece set #99 (also by Gergo Macsi):

More piece sets may come in the future.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Born in 1836 in Prague, world champion between 1866 and 1894.
He laid down the base of positional game, therefore he is known as the founder of the modern chess. No doubt, Steinitz has opened a new chapter in the history of the game. Because of his careness, efforts for the economical play, the great attackers of his age (Chigorin, Gunsberg) have lost in order. His approach was not appreciated by the age he lived in. Players didn't take too much care of the pawn, the structure of the game, opposing to Steinitz, who probably took too much care of these.
On the first official world championship, in 1886 in New York and in St. Luis, Steinitz played 10:5 with 5 draws against the Polish Johannes Hermann Zukertort. He defended his title against Isidor Gunsberg, and twice against Mihail Chigorin too. Then lost it in 1894 against Emanuel Lasker in the final.
Finished his life in 1900 in New York in a mental hospital.

Time Controls

Players can use more different time controls in the club.
10/30 - This is the default time control. Club level tournaments and games by pairing use this one. Here 10 moves must be taken in 30 days. Clocks start with 30 days, the thinking time is always subtracted from them, but another 30 days are added at every 10th move. The maximum the clocks can show is 40 days.
10/40 - This is a bit slower time control. 10 moves must be taken in 40 days, the addition is 40 days, and the maximum is 50 days.
10/50 - More slower, 50 days for 10 moves, 50 days addition at every 10th move, the maximum is 65 days.
5+1 - This is a faster one. Here the clocks start with 5 days on them. The used up thinking time is subtracted also, and 1 day is added at each move. The maximum is 30 days here too.
The server manages the clocks, it calculates the thinking times, adds, subtracts, and does everything. Records everything in the game logs.
If a clock runs out of time, the player will be considered as being on an unannounced vacation. If it elapses also, he'll loose the game, the opponent can claim result.

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