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Caïssa Board is a graphical chess interface tuned toward simplicity of use. It also provides tactical and strategic hints such as the possibility of forks or the controlled squares and is shipped with the public domain chess engine Gull 3. Early Access.

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Tactics Update

May 1

The final part of the review mode has just been completed: the tactics update.

The various tactical diagrams have been reviewed and corrected, displaying less whimsical information than before. For example, a fork will not be validated if the attacking piece can be captured by one of its targets, unless it is itself defended and of a lower value than the target.

You can now view tactical information about a piece by dragging the mouse cursor over it.

For example, here the knight can launch a discovery attack against the opponent's queen.

Game selection has been slightly improved, although this is not the final version. You can now also select positions for analysis.

Fixed a bug in 2D, the moved part was displayed incorrectly.

Please let me know if you're not happy with the new way of calculating tactics.

I now need to improve the user interface and special effects before leaving early access.

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How can i close the small comment and 2d window? Thx

ztirf

Oct 19, 2021 @ 7:37pm

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Finalizing the review mode

Apr 23

As you may have noticed, most of the recent updates were focused on improving the review mode.

In order to finalize it, I had to add the letters and numbers of the squares, the markers for the last move and the possible moves. These are colored in review mode (but not in game mode, as this would be considered cheating).

A green marker means that the square is guarded by another piece.

A red marker means that the square is being attacked by the opponent.

A yellow marker means that the square is challenged (guarded and attacked).

A white marker means that the square is neither attacked nor guarded.

I may change the white and yellow markers later, as the white marker is sometimes difficult to see. Thus, the marker for challenged squares would become orange and the white marker would become yellow.

Next I will need to fix the tactics, fix some minor issues and maybe add the status bar now and the cursor for the gamepad and then I will be able to move onto other parts of Caïssa Board. Those are less demanding so the finalization of the whole app is not very far now.

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Multiple Evaluation Bars

Apr 18

Multiple evaluation bars have been added. This makes it easy to spot dangerous situations where only one move is winning or avoids losing. You can see them in the analysis window. There will be as many bars as the number of evaluation lines set in the options.

Fixed a display corruption issue when reviewing the game

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Next Update: Controller and UI

The next big update will mainly focus on being able to use Caïssa Board with a controller, this will open the possibility to "Remote Play with a friend" on Steam. For that, I will naturally have to redesign big parts of the user interface.

dominique.lorre

Apr 29, 2022 @ 3:45am

General Discussions

Multiplayer preferences

As the main goal for Early Access is to develop the multiplayer mode, please let me know what you think should be prioritized. My priorities right now are: - Play with a friend on Steam - Play on lichess.org (they have an API) - Play on chess servers such as fics - Make a lobby (very low priority) Naturally, making a lobby would take a lot of efforts and it does not seem very interesting as of now since there are already many players on lichess and fics. Should Caïssa Board grow very big then it coul...