Lucas Chess Fresh News

News: Turn on the lights ,  added calculation mode where the time used begins when a piece is moved, then the user can think for as long as needed, but must be accurate and fast when moving in relation to memory mode (the only way so far).  also it was added an initial theme from Uwe Auerswald list of positions, where only difficulty 1 and 2 are selected. Performance , in Options-Configuration, parameters have been added that determine the consideration of good or bad moves, as well as the degree of effect of bad moves on the total elo of a game, from 0 with no effect to 5. Bugs: Saving a game to a database Database, changing the file Saving a game to PGN when with nags, $ symbol is repeated (Konrad Franz Hüttner) Director, to remove with Ctrl-MouseRight it is necessary to press two times. Downloads  :  Portable:   LucasChessPortable1104a.exe Installable:   InsLucasChess1104a.exe From version 11.03: ...

Bugs fixed: Analisys, reduced the number of nags produced by analysis (Giovanni di María) Database, save to PGN when select codec = same as file. Playing against a game when mate. Database: to create polyglot books doesn´t works Training positions, bad message when tutor disabled and the training is guided (variator) News: Scanner of positions, added Alt left, Alt key-left, Alt key-up, Alt key-right, Alt key-down to scan non-square cells Turn on the lights, added more info  Downloads  :  Portable:   LucasChessPortable1103.exe Installable:   InsLucasChess1103.exe From version 11.02:

 Bugs fixed: STS: it doesn´t works (Husniddin Sharafutdinov) Training mates: all moves are incorrect (João A, zagabra) Adjourn: ask for resign (Bogdan P) Database: to create polyglot books doesn´t works Database: to export to pgn is very slow News: Director: Ctrl Left mouse, to remove any graphic/pieze (Marc) Database: can be configurated to use its own graphics, and can be showed automatically via own-Config (Marc) Turn on the lights: right button show history of each item Log file of engines, can be activated in Configuration/Engines, it creates a file in /UsrData/logEngines (Norbert) Changes: Create your own game: less options in toolbar Create your own game: last file is not open automatically Downloads  :  Portable:   LucasChessPortable1102.exe Installable:   InsLucasChess1102.exe From version 11, Information, Search for updates: doesn't work

New  web: http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/ New engines: Delfi 5.4 by Fabio Cavicchio - http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/ Monarch 1.7 by Steve Maughan - http://www.monarchchess.com / Andscacs 0.9032n by Daniel José Queraltó - http://www.andscacs.com/ Arminius 2017-01-01 by Volker Annus - http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2017-01-01.zip WildCat by Igor Korshunov - http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat Demolito by Lucas Braesch - https://github.com/lucasart/Demolito Hannibal 1.7 by Samuel N. Hamilton and Edsel G. Apostol - http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal Spike 1.4 by Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer - http://spike.lazypics.de/index_en.html Zappa 1.1 by Anthony Cozzie - http://www.acoz.net/zappa/ Houdini 1.5a by Robert Houdart - http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm Paladin 0.1 by Ankan Banerjee - https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu Read PGN file: Now supports the selection of multiple files (unknown) New game in the beginning...

Max Aloyau has added a new document in PDF with information on the novelties introduced this year 2017 in the development version of Lucas Chess. This document can be downloaded from the program website, section documents . Or directly from:  link 

Changes in kibitzers: 1. Added some options: Priority of the cpu process, normal, low, below low, high,... (vga) Analyzed position, it can be before the move on the board or after the move. Visibility, when you have many kibitzers, some of them can be hidden in the selection menu. 2. Kibitzer options can be changed live. 3. The order in the menu can be changed. 4. To edit: Tools-Engines-Kibitzers When playing, Utilities-Kibitzers-Edit Bug fixed: Multiple analysis of a position, engines are not reused when external. (vga) Update from 11.00.21 to 11.00.21a: Bug fixed, kibitzers don´t work (Giovanni) Update from 11.00.21a to 11.00.21b: Bug fixed, tournaments between engines, "Cancel button" and difference of material doesn't work (Giovanni Di Maria) Bug fixed, database, order is not maintained from a session to other (Max Aloyau) Database, added in Utilities mass analysis option (Marc) New theme, McBrain's Wooden Ch...

Bugs fixed: Moves via keyboard, c is not working (John) Doesn´t show figurines in Variants. PGN reader when positions with solutions, option Utilities-List of FENS, doesn´t create a FNS file with solutions (Remes). Added: Pawn endings Background color in selected rows  can be changed (Options-Colors-General-Tables). (Remes) Web: New official web =  http://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/ 11.00.20 -> 11.00.20a: # Long analysis of a position, new cancel button (?) # Depth as an option to tutor (R.Giorgi) # <enter> to select in PGN reader (Remes) # Added ALT-J to an screenshot of board (Remes) # Removed menu.symbols in board to do a screenshot(Remes)