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...
Request of approval of your Freeware “Lucas Chess” for our CHIP Magazine-DVD 12/2014
ReplyDeleteDear Lucas,
as a journalist of Germanys most successful monthly PC-magazine CHIP I am currently researching content for the enclosed DVD. Because of this I would like to offer our readers Your free software “Lucas Chess” (if possible including upcoming versions) and distribute it as an additional service on any future CD/DVD, ISO-download and via CHIP-App-Tablet edition. Therefore I would be highly grateful if you would give me your approval.
Of course we will credit you and your web presence as the owner of rights.
Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards from Munich,
Karsten Bunz
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You have my approval.
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The engine Rocinante in Competition are of competition are not moving when he is losing. Moreso, those engines are playing in Tournament are stoping and not responding.
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Deletebug with v8.09 after so many moves playing against the chess engines (20?) clicking on a piece intermittently causes the piece to float above the board and essentially stops the game. I've found this to be a problem with carlsen champion, toga and toyota with critter as the tutor,
ReplyDeleteI need the contents of the file bug.log in the folder of the program, this may help me, since I have not been able to replicate the problem on my computer.
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ReplyDeleteWas testing your prog as I am planning to create Youtube-videos with your prog as the interface. There is a small problem though as I was not able to set sounds on? Any suggestions?
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DeleteIf you want sounds, better way is to assign custom sounds from Options, for instance, add ding.wav to "After rival move".