Version R2.08a

New tournament with a wide variety of engines developed by Andreas Wicker.

Added

• Opening lines, option to remove comments/ratings/analysis
• Opening lines, option to import comments from pgns/other opening lines.
• Competition, tourney elo, The Wicker Park tourney, with 243 engines by Andreas Wicker (http://99-developer-tools.com/chess/), from 100 to 3000 calculated elo.

Fixed

• Leagues, changed the way to calculate the matches.

Updated

• Language Chinese by Zoushen
• Language French by Eric.
• Language German by Johannes Bolzano.
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.
• Language Finnish by Heikki.
• Language Russian by Johannes Bolzano.
• Language Romanian by Curs de Sah Ploiesti.
• Language Indonesian by Heri Darmanto.

Version R2.07a

In-depth beta testing of the program by Eric. New version of Komodo. New update of eboards by Graham O'Neill. Forcing Moves, created By Johannes Bolzano.

Added

• Forcing moves, included in the Utilities menu of any game to any position (idea and code by Johannes Bolzano).
• Databases, when editing a game, under Utilities, new option in Replay game: replay of the current and following games.
• Polyglot factory, importing pgns or databases, a player can be specified to filter out.
• Learn - Memorizing their moves, included in the Utilities menu of any finished game.

Changed

• Endings with Gaviota, komodo used to select one of Gaviota's multiple responses to user movement.
• Tournaments between engines, menu to launch multiple workers at the same time.

Fixed

• Configuration option in coordinates by blocks
• The time is not saved correctly when saving a game.
• Databases, importing a PGN, Linux crashes when importing games with a lot of moves.
• Wiki: is now accessible from France.
• Analysis when the best move is not mate and the move made is mate, it is not considered a blunder.

Updated

• Eboards, by Graham O'Neill, adds identification of the Chessnut Pro board to the Chessnut driver and there is now a choice about when LEDs should flash. Also there are now Linux drivers for BLE connections (Chessnut, DGT Pegasus and Square Off Pro).
• Language Chinese by Zoushen
• Language French by Eric.
• Language German by Johannes Bolzano.
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.
• Language Polish by Darek.
• Language Italian by Vecna.
• Language Russian by Reinhard, also updated the translation of some openings.
• Language Spanish by Lucas
• Language Romanian by Curs de Sah Ploiesti

Engines

• Updated Komodo, Version 14.1 64bits+64bmi2, Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, [https://komodochess.com/] (https://komodochess.com/)
• New in Windows CT800, Version 1.42, Rasmus Althoff, [https://www.ct800.net/] (https://www.ct800.net/)
• Updated windows, new in Linux FoxCub, Version 1.1, Weak engine based in Pawel's MiniRodent, only a little change to weakened,
• Updated windows, new in Linux Fox, Version 1.1, Weak engine based in Pawel's MiniRodent, only a little change to weakened,

Version R 2.06b

Maintenance update.

Added

• Playing, pending time is saved and this is displayed next to the time used.
• 2.06a Databases, option to remove duplicates.

Changed

• Aesthetic change, labels in the tutor window.
• 2.06b Competition with tutor, maia engines are included again.
• Chess Leagues, distribution of matches similar to football leagues, with a second round where it is played against the same opponent by changing the side.

Fixed

• Competition with tutor, replaying a made level adds score to the next level.
• 2.06b Engine tournaments, the white side always has a minute less.
• 2.06b Alt-Enter key to analyse from the pgn table does not work.
• 2.06b Games database, editing a game, Director, text panel does not work.
• 2.06b Games database, Config/Database Options does not save the modified options.
• Utilities/Playing current position, eboards is not working.
• Polyglot books, bad weights importing PGN. (fixed by Dumuzy)
• 2.06a Leagues and Tournaments with adjudication engine, when workers are launched.

Updated

• Playing against a game, add Configuration option to define the number of times the tutor appears can be configured and the previous comments are maintained.
• Expeditions to Everest, add Configuration option to define the number of times the tutor appears.
• Eboards, Graham O'Neill has created a new driver (Windows and Linux) for the Tabutronic Sentio board. He has also improved the connection on BLE controllers (Chessnut, DGT Pegasus, Millennium, Square Off Pro).
• Language German by Johannes Bolzano.
• Language French by Eric.
• Language Euskara by Ilurdi.
• Language Finnish by Heikki J..
• Spanish
• 2.06a Language Chinese by Zoushen

Version R2.05d

In-depth beta testing of the program by Eric, a lot of bugs fixed.
New eboards drivers suplied by Graham O'Neill.

Added

• CburnetDark, set of pieces to use with the Dark style, It is the Cburnet set, in which the white color has been changed to gray.
• Dark mode, in Options/Configuration.
• Databases/Config/tags, fill a column with the PGN moves.
• Play against any engine, engines without MultiPV option, enabled in Advanced/Set strenght, Move selected by player.
• Leagues, added crosstabs.
• Replay game as direct tool in windows showing games.
• Play against any engine, Play as long you make no mistakes, the idea is to play against an engine until it is beaten or tied, always making the right moves. When a bad move is made, the game is repeated, giving the player the option to analyze his mistake, and after clicking on repeat you can play the same game making the same moves, since the engine repeats them in the same positions.
• Play against any engine, Initial moves, Opening Lines, which are mandatoy only to user.

Fixed

• Database of games, filter by opening, Ruy Lopez doesnt show games.
• FEN, Save to a file does not work,
• FEN, Copy to clipboard does not show message.
• Installing an external engine via command line, when it is a java engine.
• Leagues, saved journey and division in the games played.
• Training tactics by repetition, removing current with reinforcements, new created reinforcement doesnt work properly.
• Director, to move, create or delete a piece, doesnt work. It works with Ctrl-F10 active and shift-alt mouse in case of create or delete.
• Your daily test, change the file with personal positions do not work.
• The font selected in Options/Configuration is not used with the general toolbar and menus.
• Analysis graph, black pieces when show figurines is active.
• 2.05d: Endings with Gaviota, new position if draw is rejected.
• 2.05d: Resistence test, some engines do not use configured seconds, and move instantaneously (Special Maia group not fixed).
• 2.05d: Linux: Rodent II personalities, problem with upper and lower case letters.
• 2.05d: Opening lines, Remove worst lines, does its job in reverse.

Updated

• All colors edition(Options/Colors/General), all colors used by the program are editable, it is not very user friendly. To improve in future.
• Linux: allow pgn parameters to Linux launcher file, enabling "Open With" (by Lingepumpe in Github)
• Set of pieces, Book Classic, Book Classic B, Book Diagram, Book Diagram B, Book Strategie, Book Strategie B, some minor updates to various pieces by the author, Ben Citak.
• Language Portuguese-BR by Lau
• Language French by Eric
• Language Chinese by Zoushen
• Language Euskara by Ilurdi.
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.
• Language Polish by Darek.
• Spanish
• Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill (version 6 to Windows, version 3 to Linux). New driver for Saitek OSA boards (Windows and Linux). New driver for Chessnut board (Linux, USB only).

Engines

• Windows new FoxCub, Version 1.0, Weak engine based in Pawel's MiniRodent, only a little change to weakened,
• Windows new Fox, Version 1.0, Weak engine based in Pawel's MiniRodent, only a little change to weakened,
• Updated Stockfish, Version 15.1 32bits+64bits+64bmi2, T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott, [https://stockfishchess.org/] (https://stockfishchess.org/)

Version R2.04

Added

• Editing of the parameters used in the analysis to characterize movements such as blunders, mistakes and inaccuracies. More info

Fixed

• Some internal bugs.
• Autosave games, save times when they are.
• Playing against any engine, secs extra are added also to engine.

Version 2.03c

Very important in-depth beta testing of the program by Eric, a lot of bugs fixed.

Added

• Book Strategie, other wonderful set of pieces created by Ben Citak.
• Book Strategie B, for non-ADDEDspaper style board backgrounds by Ben Citak.
• Book Strategie theme created by Ben Citak to emulate the old style used in the French chess magazine La Strategie in 1938 (also L'Echiquier).
• Opening Lines, shows comments when training.
• Databases, numerical sorting: press Ctrl (Alt or Shift) while double clicking on the header.
• CTRL SHIFT C (ALT SHIFT C) to copy PGN to the clipboard
• On the position analysis screen, alternative moves can be analyzed by moving pieces directly on the board.
• Analysis of a game, option to include analysis of the variations.
• On any board, ALT-X to play the current position, it is a little different from the utilities menu, only the position is used, but it can be used with any board and with any position on the board.
• Shift Right mouse on pgn table to show the tree of moves.
• Select files, option to change from a custom to native in the Configuration window.
• Eboards can be used in Gaviota endgames training.
• Eboards can be used in Learn a game training.
• 2.03a: Chess leagues, double click in classification to show games played for the current opponent.
• 2.03a: Analysis of a game show analysis if this information is in the game.

Changed

• Added ALT C to copy FEN to clipboard instead of CTRL C in Options/Settings (to fix problem with some screen readers using CTRL C).
• Director/Graphics elements, left button used to remove all and Del/Backspace to remove the last one, only right button is used to create graphics.
• 2.03a: Playing against engines, the proposal for resignation and draw by the engine is requested only once.

Fixed

• Create your own game/Utilities/Enable engine
• Promotion with check not render correctly in pgn table.
• Playing against any engine, personalities dont be saved.
• 2.03a: Chess leagues, the number of matchdays has doubled.
• 2.03a: Chess leagues, match human vs engine, adjourn have been take into account when select the same match again from league window.
• 2.03a: Options/Colors/Main board, transparency fields are not working properly.
• 2.03a: Play against any engine, record time when pause.
• 2.03a: Databases, Opening explorer, Analysis when analyzer is default engine.
• 2.03b: Chess leagues, playing human vs engine.
• 2.03b: Tournaments, creating matches.
• 2.03c: Some internal bugs.

Updated

• Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill (version 3 to LC)
• Chess leagues, the number of opponents is free, with a minimum equal to twice the number of those configured to move from one division to another at the end of the season.
• Language Euskara, all openings are translated, by Ilurdi.
• Language Euskara by Ilurdi.
• Language French, updated openings translations, by Eric.
• Language French by Eric and Lolo
• Language Chinese by Zoushen
• Language Polish by Darek
• Language German by Johannes Bolzano.
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.

Version R2.02a

Added

• Play against any engine, added personalities of Rodent II.
• Play against any engine, added the option to change the opponent's movement, from Config.
• Independent update of the eboards drivers provided by Graham O'Neill.
• Chess Leagues from Tools/Engines, a game with an organization like a football league, where the opponents can be engines and the player.
• 2.02a: New Chessnut Air eboard driver by Graham O'Neill. (Windows)

Updated

• Euskara, all openings are translated, by Ilurdi.
• French, updated openings translations, by Eric.
• Language French by Eric and Lolo
• Language Chinese by Zoushen
• Language Euskara translated, by Ilurdi.

Engines

• Updated Komodo, Version 13.02 64bits+64bmi2, Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, [https://komodochess.com/] (https://komodochess.com/)
• Updated lc0, Version 0.28.2, The LCZero Authors, [https://github.com/LeelaChessZero] (https://github.com/LeelaChessZero)

Version R 2.1c2

Fixed

• Consulting a book, submoves notation is missing using + button of the toolbar.
• Best move training, changed the lost pawns label.
• Readjustments to the external position scanner.
• Databases, editing a game, sizes in the information area.
• Custom sounds-Linux, selecting a wav file does not work.
• Shortcuts, editing a label does not work.

Updated

• External engines must exist in order to add them to the list of engines.
• The internal translation system now allows translation of openings as well.
• Scanner, simplified its use in relation to selection of the board to be scanned, if selected with the left button the white pieces are down, with the right button the black pieces are down.
• Calculation of elo from the analysis.
• Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill. New driver to Square Off. Some small improvements to the BLE connection process to the Pegasus and Millennium drivers.
• 2.1a: Chinese updated, all openings are translated, by Zoushen.

Engines

• Updated Stockfish, Version 15 32bits+64bits+64bmi2, T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott, [https://stockfishchess.org/] (https://stockfishchess.org/)
• R2.01c -> R2.01c2 new build of stockfish for windows (problems with some antivirus). I have now been helped by the instructions in Building-Stockfish-on-Windows

Version R 2.01a

Fixed

• Consulting a book, submoves notation is missing using + button of the toolbar.
• Best move training, changed the lost pawns label.
• Readjustments to the external position scanner.
• Databases, editing a game, sizes in the information area.
• Custom sounds-Linux, selecting a wav file does not work.
• Shortcuts, editing a label does not work.

Updated

• External engines must exist in order to add them to the list of engines.
• The internal translation system now allows translation of openings as well.
• Scanner, simplified its use in relation to selection of the board to be scanned, if selected with the left button the white pieces are down, with the right button the black pieces are down.
• Calculation of elo from the analysis.
• Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill.

Version R2.0c

This version can not be updated from R1.

Added

• Translator mode: in Options/General configuration, this option can be activated, to facilitate the translation in live. Openings must be translated in a different way.
• New option in the Options/Engines configuration, which allows editing the external engines, the tutor and the analyser.
• Position solving, added advanced mode, to solve by indicating moves in pgn without making moves on the board.

Fixed

• From version 2.00, tactics by repetition, gaviota endings, ....

Updated

• Find best move training, export to .odt file (document format), code created in co-operation with Johannes Bolzano (original idea).
• Playing against any engine, when time is not fixed, can be selected the time used by engine in an scalable way.
• Playing against any engine, it is possible to humanise the time used by the engine, when fast time responses such as when a low depth limit is set.
• The number of openings that can be automatically assigned has been extended, based on LiChess openings relation.
• Opening assigned automatically based now in the position (formerly it was on the basis of movements).
• New option in Options, Engines configuaration, that includes external engines and tutor and analyzer.
• Eboards code, trying to organise it internally, and helped with ideas and code by Graham O'Neill.
• Sound system, removed internal dependency of pyaudio, the qt library is now used.

Engines

• Updated Igel (linux), Version 3.0.10, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, [https://github.com/vshcherbyna/igel] (https://github.com/vshcherbyna/igel)
• Updated Drofa (linux), Version 3.3.0, Rhys Rustad-Elliott and Alexander Litov, [https://github.com/justNo4b/Drofa] (https://github.com/justNo4b/Drofa)