Improve your chess skill and play against a variety of AI opponents. Access a collection of training exercises, manuals, guides, and bots to help new players adjust to the environment and gameplay dynamics. Enter a competition mode and lay with no restrictions.
Lucas chess is a Windows app designed for users who wish to start learning how to play chess game from the comfort of their home. The program gives you access to a wide range of tutorials, allows you to practice what you've learned, and lets choose between multiple difficulty levels for your opponents.
This application is suitable for users of various ages. If you're new with this type of board games, you should start by clicking the "Training" button from the main menu of the app. You can choose from a wide range of practice modes and receive plenty of useful instructions to improve your game.
Once you think you're ready for a challenge, click over the "Play" button and configure the game's settings according to your needs. The app lets you choose the preferred difficulty level for your opponent, interval of time for the moves, etc. A good thing is that you can configure the app to provide you with hints.
The only thing I don't like about this application is its interface. To me, it's a bit unappealing.
Still, this program is one of the best chess tutor apps I tested on my Windows PC. In addition, it comes without a price. So, it's definitely worth installing it on your computer if you want to learn how to play chess games.
v11.1 [Aug 14, 2018]
New engines:
- Delfi 5.4 by Fabio Cavicchio - http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/.
- Monarch 1.7 by Steve Maughan - http://www.monarchchess.com/.
- Andscacs 0.9032n by Daniel José Queraltó - http://www.andscacs.com/.
- Arminius 2017-01-01 by Volker Annus - http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2017-01-01.zip.
- WildCat by Igor Korshunov - http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat.
- Demolito by Lucas Braesch - https://github.com/lucasart/Demolito.
- Hannibal 1.7 by Samuel N. Hamilton and Edsel G. Apostol - http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal.
- Spike 1.4 by Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer - http://spike.lazypics.de/index_en.html.
- Zappa 1.1 by Anthony Cozzie - http://www.acoz.net/zappa/.
- Houdini 1.5a by Robert Houdart - http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm.
- Paladin 0.1 by Ankan Banerjee - https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu.
Read PGN file:
- Now supports the selection of multiple files (unknown).
- Challenge 101: It is about solving up to 10 positions of all types, with assigning a score. The program saves the last 10 scores, and you can check the ones made from the Training menu/Personal training.
Board:
- Added an icon in bottom-left in all boards to config that replace right button in the border.It can be hidden in the Options/Configurations menu/Boards, but menu always appears pressing left button in that area.
- When showing a move, if there is an analysis, an arrow of the best move is showed. (Vladimir).
Analysis graphic window:
- Added captures (Joël D).
- Some other cosmethic changes.
- Elo perfomance total and in opening, middle game and end game (Eren Külpinar).
Training positions:
- Added Play Current Position in Utilities (Brent).
Translations:
- New translation to Ukrainian by Volodymyr Soltys (initiated by Maxym Makarchuk).
Transsiberian:
- Automatic save of games,. (Jacques D).
- Some changes in level 1 (Jacques D).
Configuration:
- Position of board configuration icon in Options-Configuration-Boards.
New competition:
- Strength in positions with only one good response (singular move).
Director:
- Main change: graphic elements are added directly on the main board.
- After saving a position the added elements are visible from any other board.
- It is possible to change the file that has the information, which can facilitate sharing with other users.
- Can be added text in a blackboard.
- Activated with F1.F10.
- A simbol appears in the board when the position has info.
Training positions:
- Added pawn endings.
Colors:
- Background color in selected rows can be changed (Options-Colors-General-Tables). (Remes).
- New theme, McBrain's Wooden Chess Board " - © 2017 by Michael Byrne , permission granted to Lucas Monge to use in the software "Lucas Chess".
Tutor configuration:
- Depth as an option (R.Giorgi).
Analysis of a position:
- New cancel button (?).
PGN reader:
- Added <enter> key to select (Remes).
Kibitzers:
- Added some options:
- Priority of the cpu process, normal, low, below low, high,. (vga).
- Analyzed position, it can be before the move on the board or after the move.
- Visibility, when you have many kibitzers, some of them can be hidden in the selection menu.
- Options can be changed live.
- Order in the selection menu can be changed.
- To edit:.
- Tools-Engines-Kibitzers.
- When playing, Utilities-Kibitzers-Edit.
Database of games:
- Added in Utilities mass analysis option (Marc).
- Added two tools to change the order of registers (TheIgnobleSavage).
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