Chess-Studio Version History

What's New in the Latest Version 4.1.8

- IN THIS RELEASE (4.1.8)

• Correction of some errors and important improvements for the stability of the application.
• For those who need Voice Over, a screen has been introduced that helps to understand the position of the pieces on the board more quickly. It can be invoked from the menu or activates automatically when solving puzzles.
• Minor bug fixes, general improvements and optimizations.

- MAIN FEATURES INTRODUCED IN THE LATEST RELEASES

• A new section dedicated to training has been added. At the moment it is possible to solve a series of puzzles taken from games played mainly online. These are puzzles suitable for all players. There are currently 20,000 puzzles available but they will be continuously updated. Other types of puzzles of increasing difficulty will be included in the future.

• The new version of the Stockfish 16 engine has been integrated with the support of Neural Networks (NNUE). According with the authors in self-play against Stockfish 15, this new release gains up to 50 Elo and wins up to 12 times more game pairs than it loses.

• New feature: Search for games by position. This new feature is found in the main menu under the "PGN Tools" section. It allows you to search for games in a database starting from a given position. The position can be set both with normal pieces but also with different symbols that have different meanings. In this way it will be possible to search, for example, all the games that have a typical pawn structure regardless of the position of the other pieces.

• Possibility to choose between different layouts of the board on the screen according to the user's needs. For those using Chess Studio on the iPad, this feature allows you to scroll through the moves of a game with a tap on the right or left of the chessboard.

• Possibility of playing online using the Lichess platform. For blind or visually impaired players this feature is fully supported by Voice Over.

• Management of very large databases.

• Automatic insertion of engine analysis into games. To enter the analysis, simply touch the engine analysis line. To use this feature you need to activate it in the application settings.
• The new function "Search games by material" has been added, through which it is possible to search for games in a database according to the material present on the chessboard. This new functionality is accessed from the main menu of the application.

• New feature that allows you to delete tags in a database (Detag). This functionality is accessed from the list of possible operations on a database.

• In the Chess Board screen, you can customize the colors of the top bar, bottom bar, buttons and background. The customization is done in the Settings section. In the opening section is the new functionality to explore the Lichess Master Opening Tree. It is now possible to activate the speech synthesizer to announce the moves made both when entering and when viewing a game.

• The arrows on the Chess Board are now displayed for each line of engine analysis. The thicker the arrow, the better the corresponding move will be. This feature can be turned on or off in the Settings section.

• From the opening section of a database it is possible to save the games relating to a single ECO code or to a single opening variant in a new database. To do this, just swipe left on the opening variant you want to save and follow the directions.

• For iOS 14 users, you can customize the colors of the board squares in the Settings section.

• Enhancement and simplification of the management of Graphic Annotations. This functionality can now be accessed via a single menu or via a series of taps on the board (see the short tutorial in the application).

• For those users who need explanations on the application it is possible to contact me via Skype. To organize a Skype session, contact me via email at chess.studio.app@gmail.com

Chess-Studio APK Version History

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