June 2022: Update 4
- The app is faster.
- Improved look of buttons in dialog windows.
- Alignment with recent Windows 11 updates.
- Improved layout of New game dialog and UCI dialog.
- Updated third-party components.
March 2022: Update 3
- Improved PGN formatting.
- App window restored from minimized state before showing a dialog.
- App window restored from minimized state when started while already running.
- Code optimization.
- Adaptations for Windows 11.
- Improved look of dialog windows.
- Integration with the new website.
- Updated highlighting of the last move on the following boards: Light brown, Light gray, Gray, Dark gray.
- Updated third-party components.
April 2021: Update 2
- Improved menu localization.
- Visual transitions consume less system resources.
- Improved New Game dialog.
- Improved UCI interface to prevent some engines from hanging in timed games.
- Improved opening of web pages.
- Improved update notifications.
- Improved error handling.
- UI code optimization.
December 2020: Update 1
- Improved behavior of time control.
- Sound effect played when time runs out.
- Adjusted sound volume and matching effects to pawns and other pieces.
- Fixed the Ctrl+M shortcut (Mute/Unmute sounds).
- Added a darker shade of gray to chessboard styles.
- Improved highlighting for gray chessboards.
- Improved anti-aliasing.
- Background-image retouching.
- Improved menu rendering.
- Fixed loading of game parameters from files containing edit operations.
- Automatic adjustment of perspective when loading games against computer.
- Improved chessboard control logic.
- Flexible memory management: Lower requirements if RAM is small (under 3 GB);
Higher memory consumption and better performance (about 20% faster than 2022.0) if RAM is large. - Better stability in low-memory conditions.
- Low memory warnings when appropriate.
- Fixed typos.
October 2020: Initial release
Chess 2022 has been introduced as a new product in the Filip Höfer chess software line.