Lucas Chess Fresh News

News: Bugs  in Opening selection, with long openings, widgets may be overlapped. (Max Aloyau) Some labels fixed in english translation thanks to Nick Delta. Engines: Acqua new engine (844 elo) by Giovanni Di Maria. DiscoCheck updated to 5.2.1. Gull 3 by ThinkALot. Rethoric updated to 1.4.3. Included 64 bits-BMI2 versions to: stockfish, komodo, texel, gull, cheng, deepfish, critter.  In Configuration/Engines can be activated. External engines, added option Import of internal engines. Turn on the lights Included in long-term trainings. It is other way to study tactics, with a velocity component.  Divided in levels, all levels works with the same block of positions. To work with a block of positions, double click over a cell. The order of positions in the same block (cell) is changed each time. Two groups of training, based on the corresponding tactics: UNED chess school Uwe  Auerswald Initial position Working... Result a...

News: Tools - Database : changed internally to allow to change/save more information. With more filters... New translations in process: Greek by Nick Delta Romanian by Dan-Alexandru Raportaru Engines: Komodo updated to version 8. Everest training Added training by openings. Clicking on the letters of the board moves forward or backward (PeonPasado)

News: New chess engine, Irina v. 0.11 and an aproximated elo of 1200, it includes program beginners personalities: Monkey, Lion, .... Irina is a weak adaptation of chess engine Winglet of Stef Luijten. Updated Norman Pollock openings to tournaments of engines. link Bug fixed(?): When the mouse is on the board the scroll works opposite (Teddy, jojoB) Transsiberian training, changed tactics of level 0, now are from UNED chess school. Added Steven as a new personality to beginners. Added Irina personalities to engine selection in Play against any engine. Added Lucas-elo engines to engine selection in Play against any engine. 08a: bugs fixed reported by jojoB.

News: Engines: Stockfish updated to version 7 Cheng updated to version 4.39 Initial puzzle allows now to continue solving (Remes). Bugs fixed: Engines, error in STS copy Lucas-elo, don´t works

Latest developments: Tactics by UNED chess school, included in Training positions and Learn tactics by repetition. Thanks to Juan Carlos Antón, head of UNED chess school that allows to include the positions in the program. Link to sources   Scanner of positions, added support to flipped boards. New option in Trainings: Long-term trainings, it is included Training on a map, Transsiberian railway and  Expeditions to the Everest : The idea is to play against a collection of games, "Play like a GM" style. All moves are valued and compared with the move of player in the game. There is a tolerance value, that is the maximum points can be lost, when this value is passed then user must repeat the game from beginning. All games are divided in 12 sections, with different number of games and with different limits. There is a maximum of repetitions of the same game, when this maximum is passed, then there is a return to the previous game in the active section. Se...

Some days ago Juan Carlos Antón, head of UNED chess school , does give me permission to include tactical positions from the PDFs on the downloads of UNED web, which I consider very educational. The problem is there is no possibility of obtaining  original fens. The solution to ease my work, has been to create something like an OCR of image positions, which at this specific case is working very well. Only three concepts are handled : mark, deduce, and learn. First, mark the board, the next step is to deduce, if there are errors the user corrects them manually and asked the program to learn from them. At the beginning there are quite a few errors, but less and less. To mark the Board a transparent window is launched that occupies the desk and lets see the PDF and select a position. It is selected with the mouse by dragging a corner to the other, and it is fitted with the arrow keys. At the end the Enter key is pressed to accept the selected and continue in the program wi...

Bugs fixed: Databases of complete games, the number of games reported is always off-by-one (Pawel Stolowski) Personal opening guide, not obvious start icon, added a new one(Pawel Stolowski)  PGN reader, problem creating tactics when there is mixed complete and positions games. (Corwin) Saving FEN positions when there isn't exist the file (smaragdus) Komodo updated to 7a And some corrections in the translations of Czech, French, Polish and Spanish. Download links: Portable:  LucasChessPortable908.exe Installable:  InsLucasChess908.exe