Version R2.11g

In-depth beta testing of the program by Eric.

Compiling the LINUX version with Open SUSE Leap( following the advice of Laudecir Daniel and xyz).

Komodo Dragon 1 NNUE included.

Swiss tournaments.

New translation, Hungarian by József Oláh.

Added

• Belastegui/Belastegui2, new set of pieces, by Belastegui.
• New color theme by Belastegui.
• 4 new color themes by Tamer64.
• Swiss tournament
• Utilities - Save - as GIF
• Language Hungarian by József Oláh.
• New board theme by default based on Ben Citac themes. Now it is possible (ALT B) to select with By default option, the old one and this new one.

Fixed

• Playing as a GM, personal GM deletion does not work.
• Opening lines, importing from other opening line, graphics elements are not copied.
• Tactics by repetition, reinforcements, when the error occurs does not return to the first position.
• Analysis engine is not configured correctly according to the parameters determined in the configuration.
• 2.11a: Some trainings (Expedition to Everest, Learn openings with book, ) don´t work.
• 2.11b: Learn openings with book don´t work.
• 2.11c: Editing comments in games, the edit field does not refresh.
• 2.11d: Variations when converting to main line.
• 2.11f: Tactics by repetition in 2.11e.
• 2.11g: Massive analisis, workers do not work, they collapse.

Updated

• Eboards, by Graham O'Neill. A bug in the LED display on Chessnut boards was fixed. For setting up a new position on boards with piece recognition you can now rotate the board now using the kings. Small changes to LED display and handling of rotated board in Setup position. Improved handling of Qt5 themes in KDE Linux.
• Learn a game, includes the possibility to play with both sides.
• Editing a game, possibility to add opening and ECO as PGN labels.
• Variantions, possibility to change their order, also to convert one into the main line.
• OS Linux to compile changed to OpenSuse 15.5, and only one Linux version is published.
• Tourney-elo/The Wicker Park Tourney, it is now possible to play with unlimited time.
• Opening lines, importing a polyglot book, control of the minimum percentage and minimum weight.
• Databases, CTRL G to jump to a record number.
• Option in the configuration to determine the direction of scrolling with the mouse wheel on boards and another one for the pgn table.
• Playing against any engine, possibility of including a node limit in the engine's thinking, for those engines that allow this UCI option.
• Massive database analysis, added option to use several processes in parallel.
• Language Portuguese_BR by Laudecir Daniel.
• Language German by Johannes Bolzano,Tobias,Olav.
• Language Spanish by Lucas Monge.
• Language Finnish by Heikki J..
• Language French by Eric, Lolo S..
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.
• Language Dutch by Willy Lefebvre.
• Language Polish by Dariusz Popadowski.
• Language Romanian by Curs de Sah Ploiesti.
• Language Ukrainian by Maxym Makarchuk.
• Language Chinese Simplified by Zoushen.
• 2.11d: Language Greek by Nick Delta
• 2.11d: Opening lines, tree, new option with right button, to find positions with more than a response.
• 2.11e: Analysis of a game, changed options to add variations.

Engines

• Updated Komodo, Version Dragon 1, Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, Dmitry Pervov, Dietrich Kappe, (https://komodochess.com)

Version R2.10a

In-depth beta testing of the program by Eric. Analysis bar. Play human vs human.

Added

• Play human vs human.
• Analysis Bar, which can be activated by playing against an engine or another human or by visualising a game, either directly or from Config, Show/Hide.
• Databases with positions, added option Export to a position sheet in open document format.

Fixed

• 2.10a: Analysis of a game in some situations is not displayed.
• 2.10a: Play like a GM, option "Show all" is not saved as default to the next time.
• 2.10a: Director, the coordinate information is wrong, when using the right mouse button.

Updated

• Komodo 64 bit basic, regression to 13.02. 14.1 64 bit does not work on some 64 bit pcs.

• Kibitzers, a limit can be added to the depth that the engine analyses.

• 2.10a: Human vs human mode, added autorotate board option

• 2.10a: Enable analysis bar by default in Options/Configuration/Appearance 2.

• 2.10a: Save as PGN, added language tab when it is different from English. And the clipboard refers to the active tab.

• Language Greek by Nick Delta.

• Language Fininsh by Heikki.

• Language French by Eric and Lolo.

• Language Chinese by Zoushen.

• Chinese openings by Zoushen.

• Language Spanish by Lucas.

• Language Nederlands by Willy Lefebvre.

Engines

• Updated lc0, Version Windows 0.30.0, The LCZero Authors, [https://github.com/LeelaChessZero] (https://github.com/LeelaChessZero)
• New lc0 DNNL, Version Windows 0.30.0, The LCZero Authors, [https://github.com/LeelaChessZero] (https://github.com/LeelaChessZero)

Version R2.09b

Fixed

• Saving to pgn format, when comments are removed, the body text is displaced.
• Engines, when playing with a time increment per move, does not consider in its analysis the increment for Black.

Updated

• Eboards, by Graham O'Neill. Some small stability changes and also an updated Square Off driver for the new Pro board firmware.
• Language Greek by Nick Delta.
• Language Indonesian by Heri Darmanto.
• Language Portuguese-BR by Lau
• Language French by Eric

Engines

• Updated Stockfish, Version 16 32bits+64bits+64bmi2, T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott, [https://stockfishchess.org/] (https://stockfishchess.org/)
• Updated lc0, Version Windows 0.29.0, The LCZero Authors, [https://github.com/LeelaChessZero] (https://github.com/LeelaChessZero)

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)