• Money stored in the bank now earns 10% interest each week.

• You can choose exactly how much money to deposit.

• Clear hover explanations have been added for bank deposits, academy investments, and weekly expenses.

• Emergency funds and training costs have been adjusted to feel fairer, especially early in a career.

• The first three save slots now keep autosaves from your last three in-game days. The remaining slots are available for manual saves.

• Your ELO chart now tracks your real rating journey.

• The chart adjusts around your current ELO, making changes easier to read.

• Hover near a point or line to see your rating, rating change, and match details.

• The post-match screen has been improved to make every match result easier to understand.

• You now see your actual opponent’s name and ELO.

• Long games are easier to review with a cleaner move list and scrolling support.

• Stat gains now reflect what you truly earned from the match.

• Leaving a match early no longer grants stat progress, but the result screen will still clearly show what you gained and lost.

• Opening preparation is shown more clearly, with extra details available when you hover over it.

• Post-match texts are now available in all supported languages.

• NPCs are much less likely to interrupt you while you walk around town.

• Passing near an NPC now gives only one chance for a conversation to begin.

• After an NPC starts a conversation, nearby NPCs will give you some space before trying to talk to you.

• NPCs will no longer use up their daily conversation just because another dialogue was already open.

This update makes Chess Town Demo’s card-based chess matches clearer, smoother, and more consistent.

• Added category badges to every card: Attack, Defense, Tactic, Positional, Opening, and Endgame.

• Added play-order badges: Start, Continue, Finish, and Flexible.

• Rewrote card descriptions to be shorter and make each card’s role easier to understand.

• Improved card and badge tooltips to explain categories, order, combos, counters, and card effects.

• NPC card threats and suitable responses are now easier to identify.

• Added explanatory tooltips for Tempo, Advantage, Timing, and Combo values.

• All new card UI and tooltip content is localized across 10 supported languages.

• Cards are now played by dragging them into the center instead of selecting them.

• Play cards in any order while you have enough Focus, then end your turn whenever you choose.

• Combo and counter relationships are clearer through badges, hover feedback, and tooltips.

• The Dream Line now represents the board result of your selected card plan more consistently.

• Card clashes, visual effects, and sound feedback have been improved.

• Matches still begin from the standard chess position, but now progress faster and are easier to follow.

• NPC decision quality and card effects have been rebalanced around the ELO difference between player and opponent.

• Strong opponents remain challenging, while good card plans now give players a more meaningful chance to fight back.

• Draw, resignation, and endgame rules have been updated for more consistent match outcomes.

• Added a pre-match screen showing both players’ ELO and an estimated win chance.

• Tutorial matches no longer consume in-game time.

• When it is too late to start a match, the game now shows an information message without opening the match screen.

• The first card-match tutorial has been fully updated for the drag-to-play and end-turn system.

• It now teaches card badges, responding to NPC threats, combo order, and how to inspect card details.

• Deck-building category filters now use the new card icons.

• Added Steam and Discord links to the main menu.