What's new
The update of Caissa Board brings important new features:
- Remote Play Together: it is now possible to invite your friends to play chess with you remotely.
- Improved graphical interface: move list and comments no longer hide the board and are available at the bottom of the screen.
- Changed the way tactics are displayed, they are also displayed in 2D mode
- Added an information bar at the bottom of the screen to show you the available features
- Replaced the help window by a screen with categories
- Replacement of the game's music
- Improved graphics rendering
- Support for XBox type game controllers.
- Improved support for chess engines with access to their options and a console window that displays the exchanges between Caissa Board and the selected engine.
- Improved clock, with the ability to use tournament or friendly modes such as sandclock mode.
- Rewriting of the internal engine to speed up the analysis of PGN files. 500 games are now read in fifteen seconds compared to almost a minute before.
- Partial variant support, Chess 960 variant is available
- Gull 3 replaced by Fairy Stockfish as default chess engine
Known issues
- lists and multiple choices selectors can be difficult to access with the controller
- tactics are not displayable with the controller
- the move list may disappear in some cases.
Changed files in this update