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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Apr 8, 2021 08:28 PM UTC:

ChessV 2.3 Release Candidate 1

It's been over a year, so time for a new release! This is a pre-release of upcoming version 2.3. It should be fully functional but I am posting a Release Candidate first to give the community a chance to give it a test drive. Since it is not an official release, there is no installation program. Just unzip to a new directory and run ChessV.exe. The official release will contain an install program.

This release has lots of improvements:

  • Anti-aliased graphics for both alfaerie and abstract sets where available – some less common pieces will still result in the game reverting back to bitmaps.
  • Support for bent riders. Grant Acedrex, for example, is now supported.
  • Support for imitators. The Apothecary Chesses are now supported.
  • Continued improvement to the capabilities of the scripting language. New pieces can now be defined with XBetza in most cases. An XBetza expression tester is provided under the Tools menu.
  • Many more games have been added. We are up to 138 variants supported, with 44 of those defined via the scripting language.
  • Many bug fixes and improvements to playing strength

Download here:
/programs.dir/ChessV2.3 RC1.zip

Please let me know if you run into any issues. Enjoy!


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