Lucas Chess Fresh News

New set of pieces, Etruscan by Fabrice Etruscan clear Etruscan Bugs fixed: Pasting a PGN in "Create your own game" (Kåre Bøe) Moves between two positions training. Some corrections in the translations of French, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech.

This version fixes some bugs in relation to using MultiPV with a lower value to maximum, freezing often the program, this affects Playing against any engine, File-Elo, Fics-Elo, Tourney-Elo and Playing like a GM. Detected by Chris K. The file with positions to work with "Your daily test" has been changed because it had bad positions. Detected by Max Aloyau. Some translations have been completed, العربية, Português (BR), Español, Français, Polski, Tiếng Việt.

Tourney-elo: New set of playing personalities, created by Michele Tumbarello, that can also  be played "Playing against any engine".  They are 117 new personalities, with information about characteristics.  Created by Michele Tumbarello Playing in general: Tutor opinion saved (when option marked in configuration), even when it is the same as user move. (ADT) When playing opponent then changed cursor (and doesn't show a message) (?) Keyboard changed to support indicating moves by keyboard (Robert Anderson), now ALT-f=flip, ALT-c=save pgn, ALT-i=save png img, ALT-d=director. Can be stablished main window as top window in relation other programs. (Red Hood) Analyzing a game, new option to show graphics at end (ADT).  Enlarged main book. Elaborated by Michele Tumbarello. Lucas elo: It is possible to play against all better engines, even from beginning. (?+++) Playing against any engine: Tutor used and tutor general are now the same. (A...

New set of playing personalities, created by Michele Tumbarello, that can be played in "Tourney elo" and "Playing against any engine": A great work, during 14 months, running games 8/9 hours a day, not fewer than 12000 test-games.  Michele has prepared a pdf with all explanations:  The second generation of playing personalities in LC 9    They are 117 new personalities, with information about characteristics. 117 personalities + 3x7 GM More news: Updated "Technique trainings" by Michele. Enlarged main book. Elaborated by Michele. Some engines have possibility to play in a limited elo mode, added a new option in "Playing against any engine" using this feature. First try about voice recognition, motivated by a message of Vishy from chessindia. I have included spanish and english, using cmusphinx . This is experimental , voice recognition is not 100% exact, and I have some doubts if it is usable in this context, then I need feedb...

I have fixed some bugs and added small improvements: 1. Playing against any engine, added the option of including a summary about tutor (ADT) 2. Tutor, option to change multiPV value, default is maximum. (thetasquared) 3. New sets of pieces: Jin Alpha author Eric De Mund Prmi author Maurizio Monge Freak author Maurizio Monge Skulls author Maurizio Monge 4. Komodo engine, version changed to 5.1r2 Source code of development version hosted on GitHub   (I am testing and learning this new environment for me.) Windows binaries: Instalable:  http://dl.bintray.com/lukasmonk/generic/#InsLucasChess9step6.exe Portable:  http://dl.bintray.com/lukasmonk/generic/#LucasChessPortable9step6.exe

Translation to Arabic thanks to Mohamad Alhedhed. Translation to Dutch thanks to Willy Lefebvre. T o update: Alternative:  https://googledrive.com/host/0B0D6J3YCrUoublFqc0VGZWw3VVU/release

Bug fixed: Mate training, working with levels greater than 10 (Myles T).   Translation to Slovene thanks to Matjaž Seničar. T o update: Alternative:  https://googledrive.com/host/0B0D6J3YCrUoublFqc0VGZWw3VVU/release