v11.1 [Aug 14, 2018]
New engines:
- Delfi 5.4 by Fabio Cavicchio - http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/.
- Monarch 1.7 by Steve Maughan - http://www.monarchchess.com/.
- Andscacs 0.9032n by Daniel José Queraltó - http://www.andscacs.com/.
- Arminius 2017-01-01 by Volker Annus - http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2017-01-01.zip.
- WildCat by Igor Korshunov - http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat.
- Demolito by Lucas Braesch - https://github.com/lucasart/Demolito.
- Hannibal 1.7 by Samuel N. Hamilton and Edsel G. Apostol - http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal.
- Spike 1.4 by Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer - http://spike.lazypics.de/index_en.html.
- Zappa 1.1 by Anthony Cozzie - http://www.acoz.net/zappa/.
- Houdini 1.5a by Robert Houdart - http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm.
- Paladin 0.1 by Ankan Banerjee - https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu.
Read PGN file:
- Now supports the selection of multiple files (unknown).
- Challenge 101: It is about solving up to 10 positions of all types, with assigning a score. The program saves the last 10 scores, and you can check the ones made from the Training menu/Personal training.
Board:
- Added an icon in bottom-left in all boards to config that replace right button in the border.It can be hidden in the Options/Configurations menu/Boards, but menu always appears pressing left button in that area.
- When showing a move, if there is an analysis, an arrow of the best move is showed. (Vladimir).
Analysis graphic window:
- Added captures (Joël D).
- Some other cosmethic changes.
- Elo perfomance total and in opening, middle game and end game (Eren Külpinar).
Training positions:
- Added Play Current Position in Utilities (Brent).
Translations:
- New translation to Ukrainian by Volodymyr Soltys (initiated by Maxym Makarchuk).
Transsiberian:
- Automatic save of games,. (Jacques D).
- Some changes in level 1 (Jacques D).
Configuration:
- Position of board configuration icon in Options-Configuration-Boards.
New competition:
- Strength in positions with only one good response (singular move).
Director:
- Main change: graphic elements are added directly on the main board.
- After saving a position the added elements are visible from any other board.
- It is possible to change the file that has the information, which can facilitate sharing with other users.
- Can be added text in a blackboard.
- Activated with F1.F10.
- A simbol appears in the board when the position has info.
Training positions:
- Added pawn endings.
Colors:
- Background color in selected rows can be changed (Options-Colors-General-Tables). (Remes).
- New theme, McBrain's Wooden Chess Board " - © 2017 by Michael Byrne , permission granted to Lucas Monge to use in the software "Lucas Chess".
Tutor configuration:
- Depth as an option (R.Giorgi).
Analysis of a position:
- New cancel button (?).
PGN reader:
- Added <enter> key to select (Remes).
Kibitzers:
- Added some options:
- Priority of the cpu process, normal, low, below low, high,. (vga).
- Analyzed position, it can be before the move on the board or after the move.
- Visibility, when you have many kibitzers, some of them can be hidden in the selection menu.
- Options can be changed live.
- Order in the selection menu can be changed.
- To edit:.
- Tools-Engines-Kibitzers.
- When playing, Utilities-Kibitzers-Edit.
Database of games:
- Added in Utilities mass analysis option (Marc).
- Added two tools to change the order of registers (TheIgnobleSavage).
v10.1 [Jan 9, 2017]
Stockfish updated to version 7
Cheng updated to version 4.39
Komodo updated to version 8.
DiscoCheck updated to 5.2.1.
Rethoric updated to 1.4.3.
Updated Deepfish 7 (Marco Zerbinati).
New RodentII (Pawel Koziol).
Added Irina personalities to engine selection.
Added Lucas-elo engines to engine selection.
Changed internally to allow to change/save more information.
v10.0 [Jul 25, 2016]
Stockfish updated to version 7
Cheng updated to version 4.39
Komodo updated to version 8.
DiscoCheck updated to 5.2.1.
Rethoric updated to 1.4.3.
Updated Deepfish 7 (Marco Zerbinati).
New RodentII (Pawel Koziol).
Added Irina personalities to engine selection.
Added Lucas-elo engines to engine selection.
Changed internally to allow to change/save more information.
v9.0 [Mar 9, 2015]
A great step to adapt to Linux OS thanks to Robert Gamble
Changed, graphics window of analysis, moves are aligned accourding its color.
bmt files (best move training) can be exec by the program.
v6.4 [Aug 6, 2012]
Added a history list to tactics training.
German translation updated
Some bugs fixed.
v6.2 [Apr 4, 2012]
New tool, when playing in menu Utilities, Tree moves that is a system to document positions.
Consult books Polyglot, changed view.
Boards
New pieces : Montreal, NikNak, Regular, Pirat, Magnetic, Alpha,AlfonsoX,Leipzig,Maya
Menu in the top-left of all boards, custom resize, themes, pieces,...
New possibilities to configure boards.
Colour themes, made by
Felicia
Mohammed Abadalazez
Ctrl-mouse wheel : resize board.
Direct option to maximize window.
Flip board : with key F (scott idea)
Copy board : with key C (felicia idea)
Save board to png file : with key S (felicia idea)
Arrow keys can be used in all boards (scott idea)
Board design, added option to change size of inner border (felicia idea)
Mate in two from Eduardo Sadier, reduced from 120000 to 50000, but included information of origin of each position, and all moves are precomputed.
New training, Resistance test, other way to fight against engines.
New training positions : tactics collected by Uwe Auerswald
Engines:
Updated Critter - 1.4
Updated Stockfish - 2.2.2
v6.1 [Dec 19, 2011]
New Training: Find the best move (proposed by Ransith Fernando and bolokay)
- It feeds on the analysis of games or from training-positions directly
PGN Viewer
- Mass Analysis to detect blunders and brilliancies( proposed by Daniel Trebejo and developped thanks to ideas of Roberto Mizzoni)
- Add option to create a training to "Play like a grandmaster" (proposed by Filomeno Marmalé)
- If games are with FEN, you can create a book to training these personal positions.
- It is possible to select more than one file, to remove by example.
Analysis of a game
- You can create files to train as mass analysis(Daniel Trebejo and Roberto Mizzoni)
- Blunders detected appear in orange, big blunders in red, moves that match engine in blue, and brillant moves in purple (Roberto Mizzoni and Georg Pfefferle).These color can be changed from Config-View-Board themes PGN
- Option to save all analysis in variants(proposed by Filomeno Marmalé)
- Option to change order of analysis, from end to beginning (proposed by istolacio)
- You can enter a polyglot book to skip the opening moves
Creating your own game
- You can configure that each time you move the engine responds.(proposed by bolokay)
- Added Paste PGN.
Game against an engine of your choice
- Direct paste FEN position
The game of the day
- You can choose a file other than the standard training or initial positions PGN file or a file of fens (proposed by Joaquin Alvarez)
- You can change the board size.
General
- By pressing Control 1 tutor plays instead of the player (proposed by Indy)
- When there is a game on the screen in the section of the PGN, pressing the Home key, go to the home position (proposed by bolokay)
- Configuration-Board-Coordinates can be changed from 4 sides -> 2 sides
- Colors of the board, you can specify the border color (proposed by Mohammed A.)
Engine updated, Pawny 0.3.1
