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History


History

Origin

In the beginning of the 1990 years I have started to write Freeware-Chess (Versions 1.XX) in Borland Pascal and DOS. Than it spent a long time in a shoe box on a floppy disk. Any time (appr. 2005) I found it and fortunately the disk was readable. With Delphi I have ported Freeware-Chess to windows (Versions 2.XX). Since January 2011 Chess has been published in the internet (Versions 3.XX).

Version Date Changes
3.49 26.12.2016
  • Enhancement:
    • New Hotkey "E" in main window (FEN Export)
    • Needless comment removed if human lose
  • Estimate:
    • Random value also in the beginning of the game
  • Error:
    • FEN Export: Wrong string if there is no castling possible
3.48 09.04.2016
  • Enhancement:
    • UCI: Set parameter to opponent chess program
  • Estimate:
    • Random value: Not always the same moves
  • Error:
    • Fix in calculation of moves
3.47 26.12.2015
  • Enhancement:
    • 50 moves rule
3.46 14.08.2015
  • Error:
    • "Set Chessmen" and "human against human": Black impossible to start
3.45 21.06.2015
  • Estimate:
    • Attack opposite king improved
  • Error:
    • Terminate calculation of the user
3.44 23.05.2015
  • Estimate:
    • Last calculation deep: Recognize change of pawn
    • Prefer fields in the middle D5,D4,E5,E4
    • Lower estimate of fork
    • Estimate knigth move from margin
  • Error:
    • Fix message of "qtinf70.dll"!
    • Values of "hassle king" and "fork" not always correct
    • Plausibility check in FEN import improved
3.43 19.04.2015
  • Estimate:
    • Rework final
    • Pawn moves in middle / final game improved
    • Some estimate parameter modified
  • Error:
    • Check after castling not recognized
      FEN-Code: "r3k2r/ppp1pp1p/2n3p1/8/4N1b1/8/PPPKBPPP/R6R b -q - 0 1"
3.42 21.12.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • Exchange chessmen with function key F3
    • ELO-Value and Date added in the dialog "Save game"
  • Error:
    • Save window position with two screens
    • Improvement of the compatibility of PGN-files
    • Fix in "Save PGN file"
    • Improvement of stability
3.41 22.09.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • tie game proposal
  • Error:
    • en passant and check! 2k2b1n/4p3/8/5P2/1Q3K2/8/5P2/7N w -- - 0 1
    • Improvement of stability
3.40 16.08.2014
  • Error:
    • Improvement of stability
3.39 14.07.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • Telechess: Update openssl libraries
    • Telechess: Some improvements
  • Error:
    • Change in the thread handling gets more stability
3.38 09.06.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • Save the size of the main window
  • Estimate:
    • King in the corner (thank you Manfred)
  • Error:
    • Castling in case of check (thank you Jürgen)
3.37 01.06.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • You can resize the small main window
  • Estimate:
    • Some improvements
  • Error:
    • Some minor errors fixed
3.36 07.02.2014
  • Enhancement:
    • Telechess with encrypted mails
3.35 30.12.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Window "Set Chessmen": Save Position
    • Call homepage in menu "Help"
  • Estimate:
    • End of game: Push the opponent king to the edge
  • Error:
    • Memory leak fixed in thread
    • Recognition of tie game sometimes not ok
3.34 16.12.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Human plays against human
    • Save the level of difficulty
  • Error:
    • Improvement of the compatibility of the UCI Interface (Critter runs now). Thanks to Norbert
    • Change in the thread handling gets more stability
    • Castling also possible if rook moves over a threaten field.
3.33 10.11.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Telechess via mail
3.32 30.06.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • New character in status line: Phase of game: Start=S, T + try change of Pawn = W
    • New table in HTML evaluation file
  • Error:
    • Set chessmen: Set pawn never to ground line
    • Small corrections in French text. Merci Damien D.
3.31.1 02.06.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Input name of the player in the window "Language"
  • Error:
    • Small corrections in the French text. Thank you Damien D.
3.31 20.05.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • New language: French
  • Estimate:
    • Attack the king
    • Estimate if the opponent has the possibility to check
3.30 05.05.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Mark the fields of the last draw with a symbol
  • Error:
    • Fix a crash in thread handling
3.29 28.04.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • In the protocol, all moves are documented. By clicking on a move, in the board window the corresponding position is shown.
  • Estimate:
    • Rework threaten and optimization
  • Improvement:
    • Proportional font in the Protocol
3.28 20.03.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Level medium: After 5 seconds: The calculation will be finished and the color of the waiting bar switches to green
    • Further hotkeys 6..9 in function "Set Chessmen"
  • Estimate:
    • Optimization improved: One more deep of calculating
    • Threaten improved
    • Pawn changing improved
  • Error:
    • Sometimes human move not correct (??? in protocol)
    • In higher deep: No castling if king set in check
3.27 24.02.2013
  • Enhancement:
    • Parallel Calculating with multithreading, thus more speed with processors with more than one core
    • Second set of chessmen
    • Adjustable memory for hash table in config file (default 130 MB)
  • Error:
    • Deallocate memory with closing window "manual" and "hint"
    • Minimize also board window with main window
3.26 26.12.2012
  • Enhancement:
    • UCI-Window: New button: Step one draw
    • New edit field: "Name UCI-Program" in UCI-Window and config-file
    • Output "Name UCI-Program" on several locations
    • UCI-functions also in main menu
    • Hotkey Alt-F4 closes chess
  • Estimate:
    • Set draw in this way that the opponent can't threaten
  • Error:
    • Improve recognition of a hole into pawns-king
    • PGN-file: Display question mark in field "event"
    • Some texts didn' translate into English
    • Human against UCI-program: Some menu entries disabled
3.25 03.12.2012
  • First version with two languages: English and German