Director

New in version 6.4 (in development right now), is the ability to manipulate the  board, using a separated window.

To display this window, you have to press the D key or choose option Director from the menu of the umbrella (top-left of board).

It appears a window with the next elements :

• A main toolbar that lets you add new arrows, boxes and pictures and give them a name. In addition there are two options for copying main board to the clipboard or to save as a image file.

• Below are two toolbars, to be configured by the user and used to drag and drop to work  board.

• The work board, where it is possible to move/remove all elements. To remove right-mouse.

• Pieces to drag and drop to work board.

• A button to "Clean main board" of new elements.
• A button to copy position of main board in work board.
• "Boards coordinated" : a check box to select if each change in work board must have an immediate effect in main board.

• An script zone, where all changes are noted.
• Column 0 = main board
• Column 1 = work board
• Double click on Information to change values
• Can be saved/restored with a name

Play like a Grand Master-2012

New update of data to this training: added some games and some GMs.

Adams, Michael	+51	1095	Akobian, Varuzhan	+26	364
Akopian, Vladimir	+27	611	Alburt,L	=	295
Alekhine, Alexander	+ 5	1478	Alekseev, Evgeny	+24	360
Almasi, Zoltan	+30	681	Anand, Viswanathan	+35	1148
Anderssen, Adolf	+ 2	361	Andersson, Ulf	+15	726
Andreikin, Dmitry	+63	338	Areshchenko, Alexander	+60	488
Aronian, Levon	+39	613	Ashley, Maurice	+ 8	177
Averbakh, Yuri L	+ 2	286	Avrukh, Boris	+42	531
Azarov, Sergei (new)	+299	299	Azmaiparashvili, Zurab	+ 4	516
Bacrot, Etienne	+87	749	Baklan, Vladimir	+81	573
Balogh, Csaba (new)	+367	367	Bareev, Evgeny	+ 2	780
Bartel, Mateusz (new)	+383	383	Bauer, Christian (new)	+ 7	7
Becerra Rivero, Julio	+ 2	176	Beliavsky, Alexander G	+24	1272
Benjamin, Joel	+216	687	Benko, Pal	+ 1	456
Berkes, Ferenc	+61	498	Berliner, Hans Jack	+ 1	20
Bernstein, Ossip	+ 1	110	Bird, Henry	=	203
Bisguier, Arthur Bernard	+ 7	411	Blackburne, Joseph	+ 6	570
Blatny, Pavel	+ 8	749	Bogoljubow, Efim	=	456
Boleslavsky, Isaak	=	225	Bologan, Viktor	+72	980
Botvinnik, Mikhail	+15	658	Bronstein, David I	+ 2	718
Browne, Walter S	+ 5	631	Bruzon, Lazaro	+ 2	300
Bu, Xiangzhi	+46	465	Byrne, Robert E	+ 3	339
Capablanca, José Raúl	+ 1	651	Carlsen, Magnus	+38	636
Caruana, Fabiano	+74	451	Cheparinov, Ivan	+83	504
Chiburdanidze, Maia	+ 6	437	Chigorin, Mikhail	+ 1	506
Christiansen, Larry Mark	+ 6	636	DeFirmian, Nick	+11	754
LaBourdonnais, Louis de	=	58	Denker, Arnold S	+ 2	143
Ding, Liren (new)	+74	74	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	+38	107
Dreev, Alexey	+59	1042	Dzindzichashvili, Roman	+ 2	272
Efimenko, Zahar	+295	337	Ehlvest, Jaan	+18	938
Eljanov, Pavel	+28	476	Euwe, Max	+ 4	834
Evans, Larry	+ 1	325	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	+143	627
Fedorowicz, John	+11	557	Feller, Sebastien	+141	172
Fine, Reuben	+ 1	163	Finegold, Benjamin	+19	329
James Fischer, Robert	+ 2	566	Fishbein, Alexander	+ 3	187
Flohr, Salo	+ 1	391	Fressinet, Laurent	+101	642
Fridman, Daniel	+155	770	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	+81	537
Gaprindashvili, Nona	+25	475	Gareev, Timur (new)	+133	133
Gashimov, Vugar	+42	457	Gelfand, Boris	+22	838
Geller, Efim P	+19	825	Georgiev, Kiril	+250	1144
Gharamian, Tigran	+167	174	Giri, Anish	+149	207
Gligoric, Svetozar	+ 1	1214	Goldin, Alexander	+ 6	381
Grachev, Boris	+69	355	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	+43	703
Grischuk, Alexander	+42	714	Gulko, Boris F	+ 5	629
Gunsberg, Isidor	+ 1	118	Gurevich, Dmitry	+ 1	435
Gurevich, Mikhail	+ 1	547	Gustafsson, Jan	+75	554
Gyimesi, Zoltan (new)	+292	292	Harikrishna, P.	+36	478
Hort, Vlastimil	+20	1125	Horwitz, Bernhard	=	43
Huebner, Robert	+20	691	Ibragimov, Ildar	+ 5	675
Illescas Cordoba, Miguel	+10	498	Inarkiev, Ernesto	+77	355
Ivanchuk, Vassily	+60	1262	Ivanov, Alexander	+ 5	292
Ivanov, Igor V	+ 1	331	Ivkov, Borislav	+19	827
Jakovenko, Dmitry	+39	444	Jobava, Baadur	+99	503
Jussupow, Artur	+29	741	Kaidanov, Gregory	+11	575
Kamsky, Gata	+43	565	Karjakin, Sergey	+36	578
Karpov, Anatoly	+ 4	1673	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	+33	527
Kasparov, Garry	+21	1520	Kavalek, Lubomir	+ 2	451
Keres, Paul	+ 2	1088	Khalifman, Alexander	+31	653
Khismatullin, Denis	+104	413	Kholmov, Ratmir D	=	579
Kobalia, Mikhail	+203	236	Koneru, Humpy	+18	427
Korchnoi, Viktor	+71	2307	Korobov, Anton	+130	435
Kosteniuk, Alexandra	+74	504	Kotov, Alexander	+ 3	288
Kramnik, Vladimir	+26	919	Krasenkow, Michal	+40	995
Krush, Irina	+38	499	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy (new)	+220	220
Kudrin, Sergey	+ 9	499	Kurnosov, Igor	+74	365
Lahno, Kateryna	+50	314	Larsen, Bent	+ 3	1267
Lasker, Emanuel	+ 2	636	Lastin, Alexander	+43	367
Lautier, Joel	+ 3	673	Laznicka, Viktor	+83	433
Le, Quang Liem	+94	449	Leko, Peter	+15	536
Levenfish, Grigory	+ 1	121	Li, Chao b	=	7
Lilienthal, Andor	+ 1	225	Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	+10	695
Lputian, Smbat G	+ 1	600	Lysyj, Igor (new)	+195	195
MacKenzie, George	+ 1	156	Malakhov, Vladimir	+22	554
Mamedov, Rauf	+229	267	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	+43	577
Maroczy, Geza	+ 3	322	Marshall, Frank James	+ 3	430
McDonnell, Alexander	=	47	McShane, Luke J	+34	462
Mecking, Henrique	+14	201	Meier, Georg	+69	291
Mikenas, Vladas	=	175	Miles, Anthony J	+ 2	1151
Milov, Vadim	+12	760	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	+68	513
Moiseenko, Alexander	+92	561	Morozevich, Alexander	+39	705
Morphy, Paul	=	247	Motylev, Alexander	+23	481
Movsesian, Sergei	+58	879	Naiditsch, Arkadij	+159	734
Najdorf, Miguel	+ 3	902	Najer, Evgeniy	+36	604
Nakamura, Hikaru	+57	727	Navara, David	+69	606
Negi,P	+51	301	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	+54	413
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (new)	+133	133	Ni, Hua	+76	472
Nielsen, Peter Heine	+48	776	Nikolic, Predrag	=	464
Nimzowitsch, Aron	=	351	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	+40	563
Novikov, Igor A	+ 1	420	Nunn, John DM	+ 2	643
Nyback, Tomi	+379	396	Olafsson, Fridrik	+ 5	395
Oll, Lembit	+ 2	408	Onischuk, Alexander	+22	553
Pachman, Ludek	+ 1	512	Paehtz, Elisabeth	+50	598
Panno, Oscar	=	738	Pashikian, Arman	+48	215
Paulsen, Louis	+ 1	221	Petrosian, Tigran	+114	985
Philidor, Francois	=	16	Pillsbury, Harry	+ 1	366
Pilnik, Herman	=	358	Polgar, Judit	=	593
Polgar, Sofia	+ 2	286	Polgar, Zsuzsa	+ 1	271
Polugaevsky, Lev	+ 1	697	Ponomariov, Ruslan	+46	487
Portisch, Lajos	+ 8	1193	Postny, Evgeny (new)	+373	373
Potkin, Vladimir	+240	259	Psakhis, Lev	+ 2	720
Quinteros, Miguel A	+ 4	509	Radjabov, Teimour	+20	427
Ragger, Markus (new)	+251	251	Reshevsky, Samuel Herman	+ 1	483
Reti, Richard	+ 2	286	Riazantsev, Alexander	+79	465
Ribli, Zoltan	+10	604	Rodshtein, Maxim (new)	+262	262
Rohde, Michael A	+ 1	203	Roiz, Michael	+64	323
Rowson, Jonathan (new)	+240	240	Rubinstein, Akiba	+ 1	502
Rublevsky, Sergei	+35	587	Saemisch, Fritz	=	161
Sakaev, Konstantin	+ 6	538	Salov, Valery	=	255
Sargissian, Gabriel	+63	379	Sasikiran, Krishnan	+65	694
Savchenko, Boris	+88	407	Schlechter, Carl	+ 2	279
Seirawan, Yasser	+18	616	Serper, Grigory	+ 1	317
Shabalov, Alexander	+52	904	Shamkovich, Leonid	+ 2	343
Shirov, Alexei	+47	1307	Short, Nigel D	+61	1023
Shulman, Yuri	+20	476	Smeets, Jan	+77	448
Smirin, Ilia	+41	764	Smyslov, Vasily	+ 1	1072
So, Wesley	+57	228	Socko, Bartosz	+491	541
Sokolov, Ivan	+61	1087	Soltis, Andrew E	=	113
Spassky, Boris	+ 1	927	Speelman, Jonathan S	+19	708
Spielmann, Rudolf	+ 3	414	Stahlberg, Gideon	+ 2	363
Staunton, Howard	+ 3	204	Stefanova, Antoaneta	+68	718
Stein, Leonid	=	300	Steinitz, William	+ 2	534
Suetin, Alexey S	=	441	Sutovsky, Emil	+43	604
Svidler, Peter	+38	851	Szabo, Laszlo	=	698
Taimanov, Mark	+ 1	988	Tal, Mikhail	+ 3	1532
Tarrasch, Siegbert	+ 1	460	Tartakower, Savielly	+ 3	666
Teichmann, Richard	+ 1	251	Timman, Jan	+15	1331
Timofeev, Artyom	+63	453	Tiviakov, Sergei	+76	1083
Tkachiev, Vladislav	+21	462	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	+28	262
Topalov, Veselin	+22	728	Turov, Maxim (new)	+305	305
Uhlmann, Wolfgang	+22	1011	Unzicker, Wolfgang	+ 2	370
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	+48	446	Vaganian, Rafael A	+ 8	882
Vallejo Pons, Francisco	+65	651	Van Wely, Loek	=	563
Vitiugov, Nikita	+77	359	Volokitin, Andrei	+54	441
Waitzkin, Joshua	=	148	Wang Yue	+52	534
Wang, Hao	+36	309	Winawer, Szymon	+ 2	110
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	+58	525	Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander	+ 4	684
Wolff, Patrick G	+ 1	245	Xie Jun	=	242
Ye Jiangchuan	=	231	Yermolinsky, Alex	+15	565
Yudasin, Leonid	+ 5	558	Zhigalko, Sergei	+119	354
Zhou, Jianchao	+86	199	Zhu Chen	+38	358
Zukertort, Johannes Hermann	+ 1	126	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	+41	410

Version 6.2a

Update : version 6.2a, only solved some bugs (reported by Francesco Dall'Aqua) 

• Instalable : InsLucasChess62a.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?xbci995f9xx2q6b)- 16Mb.
• Portable : LucasChess62aPort.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?dbm31def5h0kadb)- 16Mb.
• Sources : LucasChessPY62a.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/?ry0zh1t0cbsxjly)- 9Mb

Version 6.2

New version :

• Instalable : InsLucasChess62.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?savfkw44fvasos1)- 16Mb.
• Portable : LucasChess62Port.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?uvzzse4bhq2y6vo)- 16Mb.

News :

• 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

Tactical training with your own blunders

Thanks to the ideas contributed by Daniel Trebejo, bolokay and Ransith Fernando (edited 6/12/2011, unpardonable omission), it were added to  new version other options allow you to train tactical positions recovered from your own games.


The process is carried out in two parts:

1. Collection of positions
2. Training with these positions

1. Collection of positions


When you view a game with LC,

• when you  just finished one,
• or you have read with the PGN viewer,
• or you have prepared with the option Training | Tools | Create your own game,

    if you choose Utilities|Analyze, in configuration window, in Other options tab, you can indicate what difference in points is considered a blunder, and you have some possibilities for generating training positions in 3 formats :

1. List of FENS: it creates a file containing a list of positions in FEN format and this format is used by the training positions. This file is saved in the default folder UsrData/Personal Training, and the recorded files in this folder appear in the Training menu|Training positions|Personal Training, allowing a standard training with these positions.
2. PGN format: generates a file of games each with a training position. Within the program can be consulted with the PGN viewer.
3. Add a training to "Find best move": new in version 6.1, and is a different way to train.

It is also possible to collect training positions from the PGN viewer, for example read a PGN with all your games, and select Utilities|Mass analysis of blunders. The configuration options for generating training positions is similar to the previous case of one game.


2. Training with these positions


With LC can be trained :
    1. List of FENS-appears in the menu Training|Training positions|Personal Training, and can be trained in the standard way, with tutor support.
    2. Find best move: appear in the Training menu|Find best move




Find best move


The aim of this training is to find out what the best move (according to the engine that analyzed) at a given position, and persists until you find it, after, you can see the actual game where you made the move.


LC Keeps track of points winned and time spent in the group of positions that make up the training.


Once finished, you can repeat and keeping track of the overall results, to compare our progress.


After a workout you can generate new, even reanalyzing.




Link to LC 6.1 beta 8 : http://www.mediafire.com/?vhn1l1867oi1946

Bug of the day 31

I'm sorry, but yesterday (October/31) there was a bug caused by the number of day : 31, and the program did not work all day.
I've been on vacation until today so I could not solve or warn.
Not will occur again until 31 December.
Before I will publish version 6.1 that solves it.

Version 6.0

I have published version 6.0 :

• Download : http://lucaschess.host22.com/descargas.htm

• News : http://lucaschess.host22.com/novedades.htm