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Stats: Tutorials and Find the Move now have a dedicated stats screen where you can see your progress. I will probably improve this later and show stats for each individual game as well. Find the Move: Updated Bobby Fischer's games. Added more explanations, moves to find and varia
Here are some quality of life improvements to Chess Tools I've updated some aspects of the exhibition mode: Added an undo move button Added a review game button permanently there Added arrows under the game log Added a preview for the position and variant to the play menu Added a
-Added 20 new games from Alexander Alekhine -Reviewed and updated Mikhail Tal's games -Added new classical 3d piece set: -New controls: Hold alt and right click to draw squares without dragging WASD - moves the camera in 3d mode Q - moves the camera up in 3d mode E - moves the ca
As many use this feature, I decided to postpone working on Alekhine's games and instead spend a week upgrading the Analysis Board. The old code bad to say the least, so I basically redesigned everything from scratch. I made a new UI entirely: New features: Multiple engine lines a
Reviewed and added more moves, comments and variations to Hikaru Nakamura's games: Before total moves to find: 144 Now total moves to find: 375
Chess Tools is now optionally 3D! Simply press 2d and 3d buttons to switch between them. I thought I would maybe add this feature when I had nothing left to add but I did some experimenting and it wasn't too difficult to implement. What most publishers would do these days is crea
Reviewed and expanded upon the games of Magnus Carlsen in Find The Move: -Added more move explanations, moves to find and variations to all games Moves to find change breakdown: Game 1 before 12, after 14 Game 2 before 4, after 25 Game 3 before 3, after 10 Game 4 before 4, after
Find the Move additions: -20 Famous Games from Paul Morphy -20 Famous Games from Jose Raul Capablanca -Added notification for when you have to find a move Coming soon: -20 Famous Games from Alexander Alekhine -20 Famous Games from Emanuel Lasker Settings Panel: -Added validation
-Added 40 new checkmate puzzles -Fixed puzzle bug where the pool of puzzles was limited by the amount of puzzles selected and not the total puzzles. Puzzles will shuffle completely randomly now. Coming soon: 20 Games of Jose Raul Capablanca
-Added 20 games from Paul Morphy -Improved the engine slightly and made default game review threaded
I've started working on update 1.3 - Masters of the past. I plan to include games from: Paul Morphy Jose Raul Capablanca Alexander Alekhine Emmanuel Lasker As this is 80 games and a lot of work, I will break this up into smaller updates when I finish each set of games. So the nex
Find the move: Went through the games of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov and expanded the amount of moves you need to find. Comparison: Kasparov - Before: 90 total moves to find - Now: 206 total moves to find Karpov - Before: 69 total moves to find - Now: 238 total moves to fin
Opening Tutorials: Openings are now separated into 4 separate menus: -General -Beginner -Intermediate/advanced -Gambits Added 8 Gambit tutorials: -The King's Gambit -The Stafford Gambit -The Smith Morra Gambit -The Danish Gambit -The Budapest Gambit -Evan's Gambit -The Urusov Gam
Coming soon: Version 1.2: Opening Update Opening gambits: Guides to many popular gambits such as: The Danish Gambit, The Stafford Gambit, The King's Gambit, The Vienna Gambit and more. More openings: Guides to the Catalan Opening, The Grunfeld Defence and the Four Knights. Puzzle
Find The Move: Add 80 more games: 20 games from Magnus Carlsen 20 games from Vishy Anand 20 games from Hikaru Nakamura 20 games from Fabiano Caruana -Replaced the old button layout with a new preview for every game -Menus will now save your previous scrolling position when going
Default Engine: Increased the speed it selects moves in play mode Game review: -Increased the speed and accuracy of the default when reviewing games -Increased the speed of custom engine when reviewing games
Find the move: -Checked all the games for mistakes and typos -Added some text showing when the game goes into a variation that wasn't seen in the game Extras: Added a small new game mode to help practice the coordinates of the chess board. Find it in extras on the main menu.
Here is a breakdown of planned of Future updates: Tutorials: -General bug fixes, typo fixes and improvements -Make more tutorials: More openings: Scotch, The Catalan, Karo-Kann etc. Opening gambits: The King's Gambit, Smith Morra Gambit, Urusov Gambit etc. Middle Game: Space adva
Patch Notes: Tutorials: Updated and Improved all opening tutorials Fixed typos Move Highlighter: Fixed many bugs associated with this tool for example: -If only an enemy king was defending a piece but two friendly piece were attacking it, it would be marked as a bad capture (red