Dedicated Servers, New Positions and Chess Engine Settings

The dedicated server is finally available! You can now download it as a Windows or Linux version from an anonymous account.

Stockfish 16.1 has been added to the chess engines.

Current positions have been added to the database. Endgame and other positions have been added, so you can now practice knight and bishop checkmate or Philidor's position!

You'll only be able to benefit from these by default if you reset your database. It's easy enough: just delete the caissa-board.sqlite file from your "Documents/My Games/Caïssa Board/Game Files" folder, then relaunch Caïssa Board. However, if you do so, you'll lose the game databases you've created. You can recover them by recreating them again, as long as the corresponding files still exist in the folder (you can also save them, recreate them and copy them later). In the future I'll provide options for an easier recovery.

In the version created with Unity, it was possible to set chess engine parameters. This is now also possible in this version. Settings are sent to the chess engine at the start of the game. It's not yet possible to reset them, so be careful if you're not familiar with them. Some parameters, such as "Protocol", should never be changed.

If you're only looking to modify the parameters to set the chess engine's strength, you can do so with a separate option (bottom of image). It has been initialized for UCI engines and is quite simple to use: just indicate the Elo level you want.

Fixed an issue where the chessboard was not reset after a game and when switching to analysis.

With this update, I'm continuing to consolidate the single player mode, before returning to the development of the multiplayer mode.