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* Time remaining is now saved when saving a timed game
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* The chess clock now starts after White's first move
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* Fix segfault when using Undo Move while viewing a previous turn (Chris Cummins)
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* Fix segfault after playing a timed game, then starting a new game, when the original game's timer expired
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* Fix massive CPU usage after playing vs. an engine, then starting a new game
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* Fix the very small save/load dialogs
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* The clock now stops at the end of the game
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* More sensibly set sensitivity of undo, resign, claim draw, and save options
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* Games now save with .pgn extension by default
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* Save now works as expected (instead of functioning the same as Save As)
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* Insufficient material: King and bishop can checkmate king and bishop on opposite color
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* Allow controlling the AI's pieces if no engines are installed (e.g. after loading a game vs. an engine)
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Michael Catanzaro (1):
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Fix segfault when no engines are installed
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Updated Indonesian translation
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Michael Catanzaro (12):
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Fix loading games where the human was last to move
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Translate "Chess" on the About page
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3D view: show board numbering only when enabled
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Fix initial sensitivity of certain preferences
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Make the computer's pieces uncontrollable
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Fix Stockfish engine integration
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Game doesn't need saved after undo to the start
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Save should be insensitive after loading a game
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Always specify engine in saved game
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Increase default width to 700
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Stop the engine immediately after game ends
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Disallow resigning for your opponent
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help: Fix obsolete product of bugzilla
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Michael Catanzaro (5):
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Respect engine args specified in engines.conf
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ChessState.get_fen() replaces all knights with kings
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Insufficient material fixes
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Chess history doesn't work very well
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Fix AI hang when Phalanx attempts to promote
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l10n: Update Japanese translation
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* Fix desync with chess engines when using undo during the engine's turn
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* Fix desync with chess engine when viewing history during the engine's turn
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* Return view to present if viewing history when engine moves
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* Fix clock sometimes unpausing after game ends due to desync with engine
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* Fix Pause button sensitivity after the game is over when browsing history
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* Fix New Game button sensitivity if the game ends before the first move
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(possible if there is a problem with the chess engine)
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* Workaround Vala signal misfires causing a rare crash when using undo after
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starting very many new games
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* Updated translations
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3.12.1 - April 14, 2014
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* Fix build on non-Linux systems
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* Fix incorrect header bar title after player uses Undo
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* Fix clock counting down if chess engine reports move while game is paused
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* Fix time labels sometimes resizing as the clock counts down
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* Disable the new game button if White has not made the first move
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* Fix untranslated strings in the save game dialog (Yosef Or Boczko)
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* Updated translations: Basque, Italian, Slovenian
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3.12.0 - March 24, 2014
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* Updated translations
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3.11.92 - March 16, 2014
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* Fix missing 3D mode option (by removing bad check for Wayland)
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* Fix size of some buttons in the header bar (Yosef Or Boczko)
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* Use correct Play button icon in RTL layouts (Yosef Or Boczko)
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* Update screenshots and part of user docs text (Andre Klapper)
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* Many translation updates
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It was neglected to mention that engines.conf can now be overridden on a per-
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user basis by placing the file in XDG_CONFIG_DIR/gnome-chess (i.e.
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~/.config/gnome-chess/engines.conf)
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3.11.90 - February 16, 2014
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WARNING WARNING WARNING
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This version switches to using the UCI protocol to communicate with GNU Chess.
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UCI support was added in GNU Chess 6.0; however, it is buggy and causes 100% CPU
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usage. This is a terrible user experience, and is fixed in GNU Chess 6.1.0.
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And if your distribution still ships GNU Chess 5.x, then it won't work at all.
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Please check your version of GNU Chess before updating!
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* GNU Chess is now the recommended default chess engine for Linux distributions.
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* New difficulty levels for GNU Chess. Feedback is highly desired!
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* The engines configuration file has moved from SYSCONFDIR/chess-engines.conf to
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SYSCONFDIR/gnome-chess/engines.conf and the original file will no longer be
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* engines.conf now has a new option, delay-before-move, used to set the delay
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in seconds after a human moves before the engine is told to make a move. (The
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actual delay will of course be longer, since the engine needs some time to
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* Many actions previously in the gear menu now live as buttons in the header
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* Added extra two seconds of delay before the engine moves for most engines.
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This slows down the game to make it less overwhelming.
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* It is no longer possible to enter 3D mode when using Wayland or Mir. Support
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for these environments will not be added in time for 3.10. Use 2D mode
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* The game is now properly paused when the Claim Draw dialog is open.
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* Fix color in window subtitle displayed when White is checkmated.
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* Shorten the window subtitle displayed when something goes wrong.
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* The desktop file has been renamed to gnome-chess.desktop
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* Updated translations
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3.11.4 - January 12, 2014
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Dependencies: GTK+ 3.10
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* Redesign: GtkHeaderBar and GtkMenuButton replace the GtkToolbar
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* Remove fullscreen mode
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* Use symbolic icons in the buttom bar (Yosef Or Boczko)
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* Add the "linked" style to the navigation buttons (Yosef Or Boczko)
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* Use a symbolic light bulb in the preferences dialog
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* Remove extra space between White and Black timers
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* Don't automatically pause when switching windows or viewing the menu
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* The pause key is now an accelerator for the pause/resume action
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* Show better errors when something goes wrong with the engine
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* Never claim the engine has died when all is well
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* Display a message if a human player is in check
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* Warn user when engine fails to launch
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* Fix colors of pieces in figurine algebraic notation
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* Fix critical warnings when starting a new game
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* Never try to kill the same engine process twice
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* ChessEngine: fix minor file descriptor leaks
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* Don't leave an orphaned engine if we crash
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* About dialog: update website
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* Updated translations
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3.11.3 - December 16, 2013
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* New app icon (Jakub Steiner)
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* Replace some deprecated containers (Volker Sobek)
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* Updated translations
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3.11.2 - November 16, 2013
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* Fix black background in 3D view (regression in 3.11.1)
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* Fix Paused overlay displaying upside-down with Black on the bottom
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* Fix too-small left arrow in history controls
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* Fix a harmless assertion failure
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* Add missing GTK category to desktop file
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* Updated translations
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Contributors: Michael Catanzaro, Volker Sobek
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3.11.1 - October 27, 2013
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* Fix "Oh no! Something has gone wrong!" displaying at the end of the game
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* Fix deletion of PGNs that are loaded with Open Game
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* Appdata is now translatable
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* Eliminate deprecated function usage
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* Updated translations
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Contributors: Robert Ancell, Michael Catanzaro
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3.10.0 - September 22, 2013
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* Updated translations
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3.9.92 - September 16, 2013
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SQLite dependency removed
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* Player on move is now considered in check for threefold repetition
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* Implement more CECP functionality, making a desync with the engine less likely
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* If an engine's process dies, display a warning instead of claiming it resigned
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* Help: remove Amundsen from list of supported engines
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* Help: remove the "there are no bugs" page; regrettably, there are bugs
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* Add an appdata file for GNOME Software
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* Many updated translations
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3.9.90 - August 19, 2013
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* New pause game option added
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* Fix figurine algebraic notation displaying the wrong figures
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* Store only one game at a time in autosave history
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* Prompt the user to save the game before opening a new one
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* Fix viewing arbitrary turns with the history combo box
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* Fullscreen icon should change to unfullscreen icon when in fullscreen view
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* The game will now display a warning and end the game when an engine makes an
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illegal move, or when a CECP engine claims GNOME Chess allowed an illegal
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move, instead of hanging forever.
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* Claim Draw now works again
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* If a draw cannot be claimed, an explanatory dialog is shown
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* Fix two bugs with threefold repetiton detection
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* Fix fifty-move rule detection
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* Now transient for the main window (not considered separate by GNOME Shell)
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* Remove show history option
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* Reorder some preferences
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* Renamed to chess-engines.conf
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* Now installed into $sysconfdir instead of $(datadir)/gnome-chess
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* The format for passing UCI options to engines has been simplified
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* New support for adding arguments to be appended to the UCI go command
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* UCI engines should now be much easier
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* Miscellaneous changes to other engines
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* Amundsen support dropped due to lack of support for Undo
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* Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
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* Czech (Marek Černocký)
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* Galician (Fran Diéguez)
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* Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
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* Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
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* Italian (Milo Casagrande)
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* Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
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* Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
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* Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
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* Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
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* Traditional Chinese (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
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3.9.5 - July 29, 2013
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Note for distributors:
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We now recommend installing the HoiChess engine by default, instead of GNUChess
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or Phalanx (or really anything else), in order to make the game actually
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winnable for mortals. See the long-running Bug #475535 for more information on
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why HoiChess is recommended. The Debian package has build patches, if needed.
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- Added support for the Octochess engine
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- Easier Easy/Normal settings for many engines
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- Fix AI hang when using Undo against most CECP engines
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- Fix crash when new game dialog is deleted
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- Don't include path to opened game in window title
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- HIG: preferences options should use sentence capitalization
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- Fix keyboard shortcuts for New/Open/Save/Undo/Fullscreen
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- Don't start new game if new game dialog is deleted
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- 3D: bottom-right corner should be white
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- Preferences: move "opposing player" to the top
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- Side and difficulty selection should be insensitive in human vs. human games
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- Update About dialog copyright notice
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- Fix board numbering when Black is on bottom
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- Some new toolbar items were missing tooltips
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- Add keyboard shortcuts for previous/next move
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- 3D: improve alignment of file letters
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- Autosave: always forget games after they are completed
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- Remove face-to-face board orientation
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- Suggest longer game durations
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- Instruct CECP engines to add randomness to play
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- Updated translations:
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- Traditional Chinese
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Dependencies changed:
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vala >= 21.0 (optional)
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All contributors to this release:
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Aurimas Černius <aurisc4@gmail.com>
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Chao-Hsiung Liao <j_h_liau@yahoo.com.tw>
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Chris Cummins <christopher.e.cummins@intel.com>
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Daniel Mustieles <daniel.mustieles@gmail.com>
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Dimitris Spingos <dmtrs32@gmail.com>
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Fran Diéguez <fran.dieguez@mabishu.com>
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Marek Černocký <marek@manet.cz>
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Michael Catanzaro <mike.catanzaro@gmail.com>
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* Added an application menu
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* Removed the menubar
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* Added several items to the toolbar
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* The toolbar is now mandatory
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* Fix crash when using Undo while viewing a previous move (Chris Cummins)
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* Fix crash after completing a timed game where the timer did not expire
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* Fix insanely small load game dialog
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* Save and load players' time remaining in timed games
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* Better decide when and when not to autosave a game
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* King and bishop vs. king and bishop on opposite color is not insufficient
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* Set a default filename with the .pgn extension for the save game dialog
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* When prompting to save a completed game, use a more natural message
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* After prompting to save before starting a new game, prompt for a save
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location instead of autosaving
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* Slight improvements to the promotion type selection dialog
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* "Human" move descriptons now more naturally describe castling
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* Translation updates
298
* Make the computer's pieces uncontrollable
299
* Fix Stockfish engine integration
300
* Fix massive CPU usage after completing a game against an engine and starting
302
* Fix AI hang when loading a game where the human was last to move
303
* Fix resigning on your opponent's turn causing him to lose (and you to win)
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* Fix board numbering showing in 3D view when board numbering is disabled
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* Specify the opposing engine in saved games even if it is the default
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* Each player's clock is now initially set to half the game's total duration
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* The clock now begins counting down only after White's first move
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* The clock now stops counting down once the game is over
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* Stop the engine immediately when the game ends, not when the next game starts
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* Sensibly set the sensitivity of Smooth Display and Piece Style preferences
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depending on if 3D view is enabled
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* Improve sensitivity checks for Save As, Undo Move, Resign, and Claim Draw
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* Increase default window width to 700
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* Update the FSF's address in license notices
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* Translate "Chess" on the About page
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* Translation updates
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* Fix autoloading: don't autoload the same game forever
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* Fix engine argument parsing in engines.conf; this makes gnuchess 5.08 work
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* Fix AI hang when Phalanx attempts to promote a pawn
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* Improve the algorithm for detecting insufficient material
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* Update Bugzilla link in documentation for the new gnome-chess module
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* Translation updates
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