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Re: [Chessx-users] chessx text editing

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

Hi Frans,

I have never given a thought to this, so I had to think about this for some minutes.
There are at least two issues:
- Forcing a newline might break our automatic formatting mechanism
- Saving and retrieving a newline to / from PGN is not specified in the PGN standard (afaik)

If you are only using ChessX, you can make use of a dirty hack: Insert "<br>" wherever you need a line break.
But this is of course not portable and other tools will only show <br> instead of a newline.
And this might not even work in future versions of ChessX, so this is a really dirty hack.

Same with "\n" - I don't think, that this is supported by other tools.

The problem with the newline in PGN is, that after 80 characters, a line should be terminated and the remainder of any game text or annotation should continue on the next line. Thus we cannot simply rely on a newline character in the annotation - newlines are filtered out by the PGN parser.

Does anybody know of some other PGN based software which handles newlines in comments?

Jens

> Am 06.04.2016 um 21:23 schrieb frans jacobs <jac...@gm...>:
> 
> Dear chessx-users,
> 
> How do you add several paragraphs of comments to a chess game in ChessX? 
> 
> If I start a new sentence on a new line in the comment edit-box from the edit-menu, this sentence first fills the previous line once it gets inserted in the game text. How can this be prevented, in order to get several paragraphs of comments?
> 
> Best, Frans Jacobs
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[Chessx-users] chessx text editing

[frans j. <jac...@gm...>]

Dear chessx-users,


How do you add several paragraphs of comments to a chess game in ChessX?


If I start a new sentence on a new line in the comment edit-box from the
edit-menu, this sentence first fills the previous line once it gets
inserted in the game text. How can this be prevented, in order to get
several paragraphs of comments?


Best, Frans Jacobs

Re: [Chessx-users] Compilation error

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

Hello Michael,

thanks for the hint, you are probably not using a C11 compiler which makes pieceC and pieceT to unsigned char types and thus the function duplicate.
You can safely remove the first instance of  piece_IsSlider as it is not used anyway (the one with pieceT is not needed)
Fixed in svn#2243

Jens

> Am 31.03.2016 um 15:06 schrieb Michael Höppenstein <mi...@ho...>:
> 
> piece_IsSlider

[Chessx-users] Compilation error

[Michael H. <mi...@ho...>]

Hello,

while trying to compile the latest chessx on my ubuntu system I get the
following error. What is going on? Do you have a solution?

Thanks, Michael

--------------------------- error message --------------------------

In file included from src/guess/movelist.h:19:0,
                 from src/guess/guess.h:4,
                 from src/database/board.cpp:17:
src/guess/common.h: In function ‘bool Guess::piece_IsSlider(Guess::pieceC)’:
src/guess/common.h:333:1: error: redefinition of ‘bool
Guess::piece_IsSlider(Guess::pieceC)’
 piece_IsSlider(pieceC p)
 ^
src/guess/common.h:327:1: note: ‘bool Guess::piece_IsSlider(Guess::pieceT)’
previously defined here
 piece_IsSlider(pieceT p)
 ^
Makefile:1516: recipe for target 'obj_rel/board.o' failed
make: *** [obj_rel/board.o] Error 1
mick@mick-linux:~/Downloads/chessx$

[Chessx-users] Release 1.4.0 "Twincat"

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

We have completed ChessX 1.4.0 "Twincat". Cataloging twins in a database is one of the new features (thus the name), support for Chess960 and engine matches are new, too.

I had to make a last minute switch over to QT 5.6.0 which I recommend, as all Qt 5.5 have a nasty bug with docking widgets.
With mingw, you need to experiment with the  LIBS += -lz option - I had to enable this for 32 bit builds.

There is a build for 32 bit WIndows in the Download section. Have fun!

Jens

The list of changes is long, as we put  a lot of love into better usability:

- New Feature: Filter duplicate games
- New Feature: Chess960 / Fischerandom Support
- New Feature: Game matches with sudden death timing
- New Feature: Let two engines play out a game (engine match)
- New Feature: #104 Display arbitrary tags in game list
- New Feature: Scratchpad

- New feature: Playerinfo filters complete openings
- New feature: Support SCID format piece sets
- New feature: Favorite web source with auto-increment
- New feature: List of recently used games
- New feature: Store some more FICS preferences
- New feature: Start threat with '--'<Enter>
- New feature: Allow castling in normal game as in Chess960 with dragging King onto Rook
- New feature: Parse mal-formed FEN with - - - - at end
- New feature: Show folders on Linux desktops (similar to mac OS/Windows)
- New feature: Engine logging to file
- New feature: Helpbrowser with Index Combobox
- New feature: Castling support for chess960
- New feature: Completer for FICS say messages
- New feature: Added checkbox so that engine starts game
- New feature: Premove against engine
- New feature: GUI provides book moves for engine games
- New feature: Plock 10s before end of FICS game
- New feature: Select Promotion Dialog with Meta-Modifier
- New feature: Show time annotation also for previous move (if available)
- New feature: Accept resignations from winboard engines
- New feature: FICS start button
- New feature: Assign rating to databases
- New feature: Test 50 moves/position repetition when playing out games
- New feature: No hints during training or puzzling
- New feature: Drag/drop PGN-Files/Text to other applications
- New feature: Make images flipped if mainboard is flipped
- New feature: Copy images with fixed size
- New feature: B/W images of board

- Bugfix: Crash loading small file from command line
- Bugfix: Eco Info formatting
- Bugfix: Castling not possible sometimes
- Bugfix: Moving pieces with keyboard in auto-responder mode
- Bugfix: Frame around square where drag starts
- Bugfix: Undo move in FICS puzzle mode
- Bugfix: FICS timeout handling
- Bugfix: Openingthread crashes at end of FICS game
- Bugfix: Fics matches were not continued
- Bugfix: Copied games occasionally did not show up in game list immediately
- Bugfix: Closing databases at shutdwon if saving was neglected was wrong / duplicated queries for saving
- Bugfix: Copying games to active database occasionally forgot to update GUI
- Bugfix: Opening Tree might crash
- Bugfix: Player Opening Statistics wrong
- Bugfix: Do not indicate premove in FICS puzzle mode
- Bugfix: Output would occasionally write orphaned x... to HTML
- Bugfix: Size of slider text (thx to Byrial Jensen)
- Bugfix: Tablebase results would sometimes not fit to actual board
- Bugfix: FICS text "puzzle almost solved" ends puzzle mode
- Bugfix: Handle invalid password upon connecting to FICS
- Bugfix: Terminate auto analysis upon changing of database
- Bugfix: Doing moves while not at end of game broken
- Bugfix: Autoplayer did not work together with backward analysis enabled
- Bugfix: Chartwidget repaints occasionally fail
- Bugfix: Copy games from main menu did not work for selections
- Bugfix: Pasting into new game asserts
- Bugfix: Progress not indicated for searching operations
- Bugfix: Rendering board would occasionally draw offset twice
- Bugfix: Qt4 compatibility

- Changed: Skip empty parts when copying images
- Changed: Always draw square around board
- Changed: Training with Options
- Changed: Force writing variations from Engine even if no move exists
- Changed: Set Result at end of game against engine
- Changed: Do not elide tab text of boards
- Changed: Reduce memory needed for RW-Databases

Re: [Chessx-users] chessx improvement

[Louis <zu...@la...>]

ChessX already recognizes this position as a draw:  [+] Tablebase: 
44...Kf6 - Draw

Stockfish can be configured to use syzygy endgame tables. So there is 
no issue here.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Cezary Kowalski <cez...@o2...> wrote:
> 8/6kB/6P1/2K5/8/8/8/8 b - - 50 44
> it's easilly obvious "stronger" side can't win -
> but Stockfish7 32b sees it as 3.25 just as 20 moves before ...
> and after next 24 changed into "only" 2.56
>   is there or will be an option to ad Nalimow endgame tables or 
> polyglot ,
> or any other ideas ....
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[Chessx-users] chessx improvement

[Cezary K. <cez...@o2...>]

8/6kB/6P1/2K5/8/8/8/8 b - - 50 44
it's easilly obvious "stronger" side can't win -
but Stockfish7 32b sees it as 3.25 just as 20 moves before ...
and after next 24 changed into "only" 2.56
  is there or will be an option to ad Nalimow endgame tables or polyglot ,
or any other ideas ....

Re: [Chessx-users] chessx improvements

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

1) About always on top: Due to some bugs in Qt, I had to take out this feature - sorry!
2) About pasting the games: The PGN to be pasted is not really well-formed: The code you try to paste is Unicode,
PGN is supposed to be ASCII. For opening Unicode-Databases, I have provided support in the File menu, but pasting 
does not have this. So I will put in some workaround for pasting Unicode-Clipboards by replacing EN-DASH with „-".

Thanks for mentioning this issue,

Jens

> Am 12.02.2016 um 12:35 schrieb Cezary Kowalski <cez...@o2...>:
> 
> Could you add option/preference or in view  : always on top ?
> 
>  Is it possible to add feature to recoginize/parse  pasted from clipboard 
>  lets say :  1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 c6 7.Nc3 Qa5 8.e4 e5 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 b5 11.Nd2 b4 12.Nb3 Qc7 13.Ne2  
>  copied from website without chessboard plugin ?
> - when pasted 
> Schulze,U (2309) - Bojkov,D (2520) [E62]
> Bundesliga Baden Neuhausen (5.3), 20.01.2008
> 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 c6 7.Nc3 Qa5 8.e4 e5 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 b5 11.Nd2 b4 12.Nb3 Qc7 13.Ne2
>   it shows position after 4.g3 (E62 I guess)
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[Chessx-users] chessx improvements

[Cezary K. <cez...@o2...>]

Could you add option/preference or in view  : always on top ?

  Is it possible to add feature to recoginize/parse  pasted from clipboard
  lets say : 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 c6 7.Nc3 
Qa5 8.e4 e5 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 b5 11.Nd2 b4 12.Nb3 Qc7 13.Ne2
  copied from website without chessboard plugin ?
- when pasted
Schulze,U (2309) - Bojkov,D (2520) [E62]
Bundesliga Baden Neuhausen (5.3), 20.01.2008
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 c6 7.Nc3 Qa5 8.e4 e5 
9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 b5 11.Nd2 b4 12.Nb3 Qc7 13.Ne2
   it shows position after 4.g3 (E62 I guess)

[Chessx-users] chessx indispensable improvements ; )

[Cezary K. <cez...@o2...>]

1) why after I stopped engine ,I cannot click through/wheel scroll 
analyzed variation -it is dissapear .. very frustrating...
2) also I can not paste FENs which I accumulated before into .txt
  - even one FEN..

[Chessx-users] can't open menu on OSX 10.10

[Nikolay H. <nkh...@gm...>]

I have installed chessx from mpkg package from official site. First, I
couldn't change window height for 2 days, it seemed like resizing in
height was disabled, but today it started to work. Now i want to add a
comment to my game, but right-button menu shows and then immediately
hide, so i have no time to select action. May be i can work without
it, but would be great if developers fix this.

Re: [Chessx-users] Linux binary

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

Hello Michael,

as it is not possible to distribute Linux binaries (there is no universal concept to distribute binaries)
it is up to the distributions to provide binaries in their stores.
Quite a lot of distributions already provide ChessX in their stores, see my experience with elementary freya linux on
https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/wiki/ChessX%20and%20Linux/
which also contains hints for Ubuntu and Debian Linux.

Jens

> Am 08.07.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Michael Höppenstein <mi...@ho...>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> it would be much appreciated if you could also provide a linux binary of 
> the latest ChessX. Whatever I tried I just can't get it compiled from 
> the sources.
> 
> All the best, Michael
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[Chessx-users] Linux binary

[Michael H. <mi...@ho...>]

Hello,

it would be much appreciated if you could also provide a linux binary of 
the latest ChessX. Whatever I tried I just can't get it compiled from 
the sources.

All the best, Michael

[Chessx-users] ChessX Translation into Thai

[Pirapong P. <van...@me...>]

Dear Sir,

I have been being appreciated ChessX both for Windows and Mac OS X for years since it is a very powerful and attractive chess tool for all levels of chess enthusiasts.

I am a 55-year-old Thai man, based in Bangkok, got retired form work as a high school teacher of English and German and a professional freelance translator. 

ChessX would be more useful for Thai people if it had a Thai version. As one of chess enthusiasts, I am writing to inform you that I can help translate it into Thai.

Faithfully yours,
Ludwig van Patumraat

Re: [Chessx-users] Installing New Boards and Fonts

[James C. <ja...@co...>]

In the ChessX about box there is listed a path to the Program data path. In that folder you will find /themes/boards. just place your new boards in there.

James Coons

> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Wesley Surber <was...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have been using ChessX for a few weeks now and absolutely love it!  I noticed that there are extra boards on the SourceForge page and I have also made some custom boards myself, but I am unable to install them without recompiling the binary.  Is there another way to install additional board themes using a completed install?
> 
> Wesley
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Re: [Chessx-users] Installing New Boards and Fonts

[Wesley S. <was...@gm...>]

Fantastic!  I plan to create some custom boards and fonts and will share them with everyone when they’re ready!

Wesley

> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:45 AM, James Coons <ja...@co...> wrote:
> 
> In the ChessX about box there is listed a path to the Program data path. In that folder you will find /themes/boards. just place your new boards in there.
> 
> James Coons
> 
>> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Wesley Surber <was...@gm... <mailto:was...@gm...>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have been using ChessX for a few weeks now and absolutely love it!  I noticed that there are extra boards on the SourceForge page and I have also made some custom boards myself, but I am unable to install them without recompiling the binary.  Is there another way to install additional board themes using a completed install?
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[Chessx-users] Installing New Boards and Fonts

[Wesley S. <was...@gm...>]

Hello!

I have been using ChessX for a few weeks now and absolutely love it!  I noticed that there are extra boards on the SourceForge page and I have also made some custom boards myself, but I am unable to install them without recompiling the binary.  Is there another way to install additional board themes using a completed install?

Wesley
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[Chessx-users] ChessX Interface Translation into Thai

[Pirapong P. <van...@me...>]

Dear Sir,

I have been being appreciated ChessX both for Windows and Mac OS X for years since it is a very powerful and attractive chess tool for all levels of chess enthusiasts.

I am a 55-year-old Thai man, based in Bangkok, got retired form work as a high school teacher of English and German and a professional freelance translator. 

ChessX would be more useful for Thai people if it had a Thai version. As one of chess enthusiasts, I am writing to inform you that I can help translate it into Thai.

Faithfully yours,
Ludwig van Patumraat

Re: [Chessx-users] Viewing UCI communication with chess program

[Louis Z. <zu...@la...>]

On May 21, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Fex Xef wrote:

> Is there a way to view the UCI protocol communicating with an engine? 
> 
> I am asking because I am having difficulty getting Komodo working with syzygy in chessx and want to check that the options from the chessx GUI are being received properly by Komodo.
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Stockfish has a uci option to write a log of such communications. Perhaps Komodo does too? That is, can you get the log from the engine rather than from the GUI?

[Chessx-users] Viewing UCI communication with chess program

[Fex X. <fs...@gm...>]

Is there a way to view the UCI protocol communicating with an engine?

I am asking because I am having difficulty getting Komodo working with
syzygy in chessx and want to check that the options from the chessx GUI are
being received properly by Komodo.

[Chessx-users] chessx error compilation

[giovanni <c....@ti...>]

hi, while compiling chessx-code-2030-trunk, downloaded by SVN, i had 
this error, same also with last release version 1.3.2, how fix it? i'm 
using stable Slackware 14.1 with qt-4.8.5.

Thanks
Giovanni


g++ -c -pipe -O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT 
-DQUAZIP_STATIC -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER 
-DQT_NO_DEBUG_OUTPUT -DNDEBUG -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB 
-DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED 
-I/usr/lib/qt/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore 
-I/usr/lib/qt/include/QtNetwork -I/usr/lib/qt/include/QtGui 
-I/usr/lib/qt/include/QtSvg -I/usr/lib/qt/include -Isrc/database 
-Isrc/guess -Isrc/gui -Isrc/dialogs -Isrc/quazip 
-I/usr/lib/qt/src/3rdparty/zlib -Isrc/generated -Isrc/generated -o 
obj_rel/threadedguess.o src/database/threadedguess.cpp
src/database/threadedguess.cpp: In constructor 
'ThreadedGuess::ThreadedGuess()':
src/database/threadedguess.cpp:12:5: error: 'qRegisterMetaType' was not 
declared in this scope
      qRegisterMetaType<Guess::Result>("Guess::Result");
      ^
src/database/threadedguess.cpp:12:36: error: expected primary-expression 
before '>' token
      qRegisterMetaType<Guess::Result>("Guess::Result");
                                     ^
src/database/threadedguess.cpp:13:28: error: expected primary-expression 
before '>' token
      qRegisterMetaType<Board>("Board");
                             ^
make: *** [obj_rel/threadedguess.o] Errore 1

[Chessx-users] Bugfix release 1.3.2

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

I have just uploaded new binaries to the forge: the large file support was broken in 1.3.0 (reading index files did not work)
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Jens

 May 2015: Version 1.3.2

- New feature: Variation indicator in toolbox
- New feature: FICS - Toggle board at beginning of puzzle
- New feature: Toolbox for adding Nags (e.g. on WhiteBoards)
- New feature: FICS - Filter computers and unrated users
- New feature: Show date of last access to a database
- New feature: Pin Opening Tree at a position
- New feature: Clear filter before starting search from opening tree
- New feature: Select board for searching position from open boards
- New feature: Show threat after making move

- Bugfix: Index file usage broken
- Bugfix: Missing newline copying games into a closed file
- Bugfix: Better status message when copying multiple games
- Bugfix: Gamelist header configuration does not persist
- Bugfix: Windows Installation does not show Pin Icon

Re: [Chessx-users] Sneak Preview to FICS

[Zbyszek P. <zby...@li...>]

nice update :)

I suggest add new features to FISC games by adding option to exclude comp and guests to play

Zbyszek Pietras



> Wiadomość napisana przez Jens Nissen <jen...@gm...> w dniu 21 kwi 2015, o godz. 09:11:
> 
> 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

[Chessx-users] 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

[Chessx-users] Auto-Analysis doesn't work - skips to the end of the game

[Jaran O. <jar...@ic...>]

When I try to auto-analyse my games it skips to the end of the game as soon as it comes to a point at which it includes a better variation than the one played. It ends up with something like this:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. Qd2 O-O 8. f4 (8. f3 Nc6 9. Be2 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. O-O a6 12. a3 Rc8 13. Rad1 b5 14. Rfe1 Qc7 0.25 )8... Nc6 (8... d5)9. O-O-O (9. a3)9... Bg4 (9... Ng4 10. Bg1 -0.36 )10. Be2 (10. a3)10... Qa5 (10... d5)11. f5 (11. a3)11... Nxe4 (11... d5)12. Nxe4 (12. a3)12... Qxa2 13. Nc3 Qa1+ (13... d5)14. Nb1 Bxf5 (14... d5)15. Qc3 Rac8 (15... d5)16. Qa3 Nxd4 (16... d5)17. Rd2 Nxc2 (17... d5)18. Qxa1 Nxa1+ (18... d5)19. Nc3 Bxc3 (19... d5)20. bxc3 Nb3+ (20... d5)21. Kb2 Nxd2 22. Bxd2 e5 (22... d5)23. Rd1 (23. Kb3)23... Rfe8 (23... d5)24. Be3 h5 (24... d5)25. Bxa7 (25. Kb3)25... Bg4 (25... d5)26. Bxg4 (26. Kb3)26... hxg4 (26... d5)27. Rxd6 (27. Kb3)27... Rcd8 28. Rxd8 (28. Kb3)28... Rxd8 29. Be3 (29. Kb3)29... f5 30. Bg5 (30. Kb3)30... Rd1 31. Kb3 f4 32. Kb4 f3 33. gxf3 gxf3 34. Bh4 e4 35. Bf2 Rf1 36. Be3 f2 37. Kc4 1/2-1/2

I’m using version 1.2.2.0 MAC64 GNU Qt5.3.0 with Stockfish-5-64 engine

Does anyone has a solution for this??

Cheers,
Jaran Olsen