2022.04

Changes since previous release:

• Better parallel processing
• A button to ask AI to stop thinking (when it is thinking too long)
• A button to ask AI for an advice - how it would play if it was in your place
• History viewing mode. Can be used to replay PDN files step-by-step.
• Better default settings, including both UI settings and better default AI configurations
• New themes
• buttons to show help about selected rules (links to Wikipedia)
• Added keyboard shortcuts
• Option to save current board as image
• HTTP Proxy configuration in the client
• Options to indicate when capture is required by rules
• Configuration of draw accepting policy
• Option to show notation on board borders
• Some documentation in the wiki

Attached are:

• debian_hcheckersd_2022.04-1_amd64.deb - server package for Debian
• ubuntu_hcheckersd_2022.04-1_amd64.deb - server package for Ubuntu
• python3-hcheckers_2022.4-1_all.deb - client package, suits both for Debian and Ubuntu.

2021.05

Changes since previous release:

• Updates / cleanups in python client UI
• an option to instruct AI to make several first moves a bit random, to make game less predictable
• AI board evaluation adjustments
• preferences in python client to configure parameters of AI board evaluation
• a lot of tunes in AI.
• Turkish and Armenian rules.
• Initial implementation of Czech rules.

Attached are debian packages.

The first release

Debian / Ubuntu package for server part

hcheckersd_0.1.0.0-1_amd64.deb.zip

Fits for Debian 8 or newer, Ubuntu Xenial or newer.

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.23), libgmp10, zlib1g

Debian / Ubuntu package for client part

python3-hcheckers_0.1.0.0-1_all.deb.zip

Depends: python3, python3:any (>= 3.4~), python3-pyqt5, python3-pyqt5.qtsvg, python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia