PyChess Anderssen 0.12.1 released

[gbtami]

We're pleased to announce, that a new PyChess Anderssen 0.12.1 has been made available. It's mainly a bugfix release, but some new features was implemented too.

Makruk and Metaltops piece sets (by Peter Thomson)
Setup board colors (by Peter Thomson)
Setup position
Support to observe lecturebot on FICS
Support to interact with puzzlebot and endgamebot on FICS

Thanks to Peter for hes great contributions!

Download: http://pychess.org/download/

[gbtami]

[styx]

awesome. thank you!

[supersharp77]

We're pleased to announce, that a new PyChess Anderssen 0.12.1 has been made available. It's mainly a bugfix release, but some new features was implemented too.

Makruk and Metaltops piece sets (by Peter Thomson)
Setup board colors (by Peter Thomson)
Setup position
Support to observe lecturebot on FICS
Support to interact with puzzlebot and endgamebot on FICS

Thanks to Peter for hes great contributions!

Download: http://pychess.org/download/

Nice gui........engine vs engine matches? tournaments? fischer time? is the native engine really winboard? Thx AR

[gbtami]

We're pleased to announce, that a new PyChess Anderssen 0.12.1 has been made available. It's mainly a bugfix release, but some new features was implemented too.

Makruk and Metaltops piece sets (by Peter Thomson)
Setup board colors (by Peter Thomson)
Setup position
Support to observe lecturebot on FICS
Support to interact with puzzlebot and endgamebot on FICS

Thanks to Peter for hes great contributions!

Download: http://pychess.org/download/

Nice gui........engine vs engine matches? tournaments? fischer time? is the native engine really winboard? Thx AR

enine-engine: ok
tournaments: not yet
fischer time: ok
own engine: pure Python winboard, supports all fics variants + kingofthehill, 3check, makruk, sittuyin, ouk, asean

[styx]

would it be possible to show captured pieces without shrinking the board size so much?

and there are two features i'd love to see in future versions:
- engine analysis of the whole game (maybe with auto-annotations in the move- or comment list)
- only important for analysis: a way to clear the engines hash (if supported by the engine)

[gbtami]

would it be possible to show captured pieces without shrinking the board size so much?

and there are two features i'd love to see in future versions:
- engine analysis of the whole game (maybe with auto-annotations in the move- or comment list)
- only important for analysis: a way to clear the engines hash (if supported by the engine)

- Filed it as https://github.com/pychess/pychess/issues/1081
- Try "Analyze Game" menu
- Can this produce better/faster analyzis? (I'm not an engine export.)

[styx]

I totally missed that menu entry! Thanks!

"clear hash" can be useful when analyzing a position from the start. sometimes it can be useful to see if an engine can reproduce a calculated move in the same time.

in other GUIs it's usually a button in the engine settings menu. in pychess there is a "clear hash" entry (for Stockfish) but without a button to klick

[gbtami]

I totally missed that menu entry! Thanks!

"clear hash" can be useful when analyzing a position from the start. sometimes it can be useful to see if an engine can reproduce a calculated move in the same time.

in other GUIs it's usually a button in the engine settings menu. in pychess there is a "clear hash" entry (for Stockfish) but without a button to klick

Is it ok if I always clear hash when a new "analyze game" starts?

[styx]

I don't think that this would be a good solution, since most of the time, the hash is very useful. Better keep it as it is, if the button thing is too complicated. Anyway I don't feel like it should be a high priority feature for you. Nice to have for few, completely irrelevant for most user