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News: When analyzing without redoing, it is possible to recalculate all blunders again. (idea of Mattew A.) Database of games: added possibility of set Opening, ECO, PlyCount as tags of games in a database which it has effect when export to pgn, option in Utilities-Massive change of tags.(idea of Marc) Fide/LiChess/Fics elo, eliminated messages when user and player have done the same move.(idea of Andreas W) Fix: Erroneous elo showed in LiChess-elo menu (Andreas W) Games database, problem open some games. (Mattew A) Import pgn in Opening Lines doesn't work. (Jonathan C) From 11.15 to 11.15a Marc: Fix, saving board to an image in clippboard/file. AltK shows the new keys to be used. Andreas W: Fix, engine label when training Find best move. Andreas W: Fix, find best move, changed size of buttons that shows the moves. Andreas W: Fix, find best move, bad window size when resizing board. Stochastic13: Playing against any engine, with tutor, when move is a draw an...

Engines updated: Stockfish 10 - Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski -  https://stockfishchess.org/ McCain 10.1 - Michael Byrne -  https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/releases Gödel 4.5.5 - Juan Manuel Vazquez -  https://sites.google.com/site/godelchessengine News: Moves can be added via english pgn (proposed by Tobias) when in case O-O and O-O-O both are possible, O-O and a . means short castle.  alternative: o2 = O-O and o3 = O-O-O New games in Play like a GM/Play like a WGM Bugs fixed: Bad sound messages when check, mate or captures (thanks to Tobias) Evandro Borracini has fixed the next bugs: Issue #1: Training positions and Tactics, the PGN initial comment (i.e. the comment before the first move) is never shown. Issue #2: Training positions and Tactics, , the PGN last comment (i.e. the comment after the last move) is never shown. Issue #3 - Error message showed in case the engine is not found.  Remaching when...

Graphics created directly on the board This is a long-demanded option, the list of people who have requested it from me is too large to include here. The working mode is similar to that of Lichess, if it is a square selected a circle is shown, if they are several squares an arrow is shown, by default.  It can be customized from the Director option, each element of the band is associated to a key (None, Alt, Shift, Ctrl) pressed at same time right mouse. Elements associated can be changed  from Director The deletion of elements is done by creating an equal element. The keys Ctrl-F1 to delete the last created element and Ctrl-F2 to delete all of them also work. When Director mode (activated by pressing F1,...F10), Shift+Alt+Right Mouse allows user to choose a piece to add. As a facility, when working in Opening Lines , with the right button you can create graphic elements that are associated with the position directly. This behaviour can be disabled fro...

News: Writing down moves of a game (new resource for zebras) The objective is to write fluently the moves in pgn, which can be useful when you start playing long live games. The process is very simple,  You choose a new game and the program selects one automatically.  Then the color is selected, in order to show the board.  Then a move is shown on the board and it is asked at the top to write the same in pgn format, pressing "intro key" continues with the next. There is no distinction between upper and lower case. The result is displayed at the end Changes and improves: Learn a game, show arrow to correct move McBrain updated to version 9.9 by Michael Byrne Training "opening lines" with engines: added the possibility to play against external engines. can be configured automatic analysis when failure. can be configured different levels and books associated Tournaments between engines, pgn to save includes elo information (C. Daniel) ...

News: Opening lines, training against a bunch of engines, now number is selected by user. Andscacs engine (by Daniel José Queraltó ) updated to version 0.9432 Updated French translation by Max Aloyou Bugs: Director, removing "Move a piece" doesn't appear previous piece (D. Chong) Downloads  :  Portable:   LucasChessPortable1111.exe Installable:   InsLucasChess1111.exe

Opening lines     New training against some engines, user plays games against engines with some conditions: Mandatory moves: in the first part, the user and the engine must each make moves defined in the opening lines created.   Moves until the control: for the second part, the motor moves without restrictions and the user must select one of the lines or another movement if not provided for in one of the lines. At the end, the controlling engine calculates the score of the first move out of the lines and the score of the last move, and this difference must be less than that set in "Maximum number of centipawns...", to move to the next engine. There are 5 levels, each level change increases the time thought by the rival engine. (0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 secs) Bunch of engines: user select a block of 8 engines to play against in each level.     Import of Personal Opening Guides and Export to PGN (proposed by   Jonathan Cremers ) Kibitzers ...

News: Tournaments, additions: possibility to work with minutes in decimal. (Jan Bernard) possibility to manually force the end of a game. (Giovanni di Maria, Jan Bernard) New color theme: wooden by Ale Opening lines:  has been added the option to organize the openings in folders new tab: tree of moves. Colors, label changed: from "By default" to "Reset to default" (CottonEaster) Bugs: Playing like a GrandMaster/Woman GrandMaster  when pawn promotion crashs (Eren Külpınar) doesn`t work in Linux (fixed by kupad/github) Downloads  :  Portable:   LucasChessPortable1109.exe Installable:   InsLucasChess1109.exe To update (from v11.05/../11.08a), Information-Search from updates