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Lucas Chess R 2.11 new version best chess software

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R 2.11
In-depth beta testing of the program by Eric.
Compiling the LINUX version with Open SUSE Leap( following the advice of Laudecir Daniel and xyz).
Komodo Dragon 1 NNUE included.
Swiss tournaments.
New language, Hungarian by József Oláh.

Added
Belastegui/Belastegui2, new set of pieces, by Belastegui.
New color theme by Belastegui.
4 new color themes by Tamer64.
Swiss tournament
Utilities - Save - as GIF
Language Hungarian by József Oláh.
New board theme by default based on Ben Citac themes. Now it is possible (ALT B) to select with By default option, the old one and this new one.
Fixed
Playing as a GM, personal GM deletion does not work.
Opening lines, importing from other opening line, graphics elements are not copied.
Tactics by repetition, reinforcements, when the error occurs does not return to the first position.
Analysis engine is not configured correctly according to the parameters determined in the configuration.
Updated
Eboards, by Graham O'Neill. A bug in the LED display on Chessnut boards was fixed. For setting up a new position on boards with piece recognition you can now rotate the board now using the kings. Small changes to LED display and handling of rotated board in Setup position. Improved handling of Qt5 themes in KDE Linux.
Learn a game, includes the possibility to play with both sides.
Editing a game, possibility to add opening and ECO as PGN labels.
Variantions, possibility to change their order, also to convert one into the main line.
OS Linux to compile changed to OpenSuse 15.5, and only one Linux version is published.
Tourney-elo/The Wicker Park Tourney, it is now possible to play with unlimited time.
Opening lines, importing a polyglot book, control of the minimum percentage and minimum weight.
Databases, CTRL G to jump to a record number.
Option in the configuration to determine the direction of scrolling with the mouse wheel on boards and another one for the pgn table.
Playing against any engine, possibility of including a node limit in the engine's thinking, for those engines that allow this UCI option.
Massive database analysis, added option to use several processes in parallel.
Language Portuguese_BR by Laudecir Daniel.
Language German by Johannes Bolzano,Tobias,Olav.
Language Spanish by Lucas Monge.
Language Finnish by Heikki J..
Language French by Eric, Lolo S..
Language Greek by Nick Delta.
Language Dutch by Willy Lefebvre.
Language Polish by Dariusz Popadowski.
Language Romanian by Curs de Sah Ploiesti.
Language Ukrainian by Maxym Makarchuk.
Engines
Updated Komodo, Version Dragon 1, Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler, Dmitry Pervov, Dietrich Kappe,

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