Chess Exerciser, major alpha version 0.2.0 has been released

Added features

1. Allow users to setup some basic look and feel preferences such as:

   • Changing the font size

   • Adding one of the predefined background image to the board or choose a custom image.

   • Setting up board colors, including the transparency level to accomodate the background image.

2. Improved screen layouts for supporting resolutions between 1366x768 and 3840x2160(4k)

3. Support for external chess engines, allowing users to add / remove and use any UCI compatible chess engine.

4. Added 4 easy engine analysis pre-configuration:

   • Quick (10 seconds)

   • Moderate (30 seconds)

   • Strong (60 seconds)

   • Very Strong (120 seconds)

5. Configurable muti-threaded background analyser that can now take advantage of multicore CPUs.

6. Games databases allowing you to :

   • create, delete, move, rename databases

   • mass import of games from correctly formatted external PGN files

   • mass export of games to PGN files

   • copy, move games from one database to another, delete games, or review past games.

   • automatically save your endgames or complete games against the computer to a games database.

   • setup separate engine configuration per database and run mass analysis.

7. Mistakes databases allowing users to :

   • create, delete, move, rename databases

   • copy, move mistakes from one database to another, delete mistakes or review and comment mistakes.

   • automatically save approximations, small mistakes, big mistakes played in endgames or against the computer to a mistakes database.

8. Puzzle analysis :

   • after each played puzzle, users can now request a complete puzzle analysis with the possibility to configure the engine that will perform the analysis.

9. The assistant will now allow users to also play good moves or approximation moves next to the best move, when playing endgames or when playing against the computer.

10. And may more small enhancements...

Bugs solved

• (Major) When playing against the computer and pressing Ok to start a second game, and then trying to move the first piece as the white player in 'best move' mode, the assistant was sometime providing incorrect hints, blocking the game.

• (Minor) some Stacktraces were shown in the logs due double calls (in certain conditions) to the dialog setVisible() method.