[chessx-developer] Sneak Preview to FICS

[Jens N. <jen...@gm...>]

Friends of ChessX,

I have just uploaded ChessX 1.3.0!
See http://chessx.sourceforge.net for details.

The most prominent feature is certainly the ability to observe and play chess on FICS.
See the list of changes below.

*** A note for all of you who want to compile ChessX themselves: *** 
You need Qt5 to play on FICS properly, Qt4 contains some incompatibility which will make FICS features not work well.

*** A note for Ubuntu and elementary users, who want to compile ChessX 1.3.0: *** 
I simply installed Qt5 from the store, added the linguist package from Qt4 (Qt5 linguist is missing in the store), add the developer lib for QtSvg.
QtMultimedia is not available on the store, so you need to comment out the line 12 from chessx.pro (which says  CONFIG += sound).
Link lupdate and lrelease from the Qt4 binaries to the Qt5 binaries and everything else worked fine (call lupdate, lrelease, qmake, make)

*** A note for Mac OS users *** 
Debug builds do have a problem with Sound on latest Yosemite 10.10.3. The problem was not there on OSX 10.10.2. Release builds work fine.

*** Windows ***
As most Windows Users will probably have 64-bit Intel machines, I didn’t bother to create XP or 32-bit versions of ChessX.

Have fun with ChessX and FICS!

Jens

P.S.:
Changes in 1.3.0:

- New Feature: Play games on FICS with telnet or timeseal
- New Feature: Boards now 1:1 with open databases
- New Feature: Remove found items from filter

- New feature: Flip board to side to move while loading game in training
- New feature: Setup Board Dialog with Coordinates
- New feature: #137 Extend Opening tree (Back button)
- New feature: Undo last move in Opening Tree
- New feature: Player Info filters games also for specific color
- New feature: Player Info shows regularly played openings
- New feature: Automatic analysis backward from end of game
- New feature: Refactoring from context menu of game text
- New feature: PlayerInfo with performance per eco code
- New feature: Hide selected game from game list
- New feature: Allow editing arbitrary tags
- New feature: Draw annotations whith Shit+Left-Click with last color used
- New feature: Saving w/o dialog
- New feature: Material profile
- New feature: New board "lanta"
- New feature: Allow filtering of non-active DB from OpeningTree
- New feature: Send PGN by mail
- New feature: load project databases from Help menu

- Bugfix: Autoanalysis runs over remaining game after adding variation
- Bugfix: Annotation menu seems to contain duplicate entry
- Bugfix: Do not limit num pv in analysis
- Bugfix: Pressing Shift while dragging piece creates illegal baord view
- Bugfix: Guess generation crashes when given an illegal position
- Bugfix: In auto responder mode, arrows where painted too late
- Bugfix: Dialogs non-modal
- Bugfix: Loading translations failed
- Bugfix: Open file with relative path from commandline