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July 2021

Filip Höfer chess apps are compatible with Windows 11

Judging from the first preview build, the experience has been very positive. The new OS has a clean and simple user interface and Filip Höfer chess apps fit right in. Please see this Facebook post with the first screenshots of Chess 2022 on Windows 11; the app will be further optimized for the new OS in the months ahead.

Earlier Windows versions are still supported as specified in the product table.
January 2021

Chess 2022 customer review
Using Chess 2022 on tournament level I was really surprised when I tried the Queen's Gambit trap I learned online. The program saw the trap and did not take. Very clever.
--Allan, Canada
April 2021

Update 2 for Chess 2022:

  • 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.

Product page | Update for existing users
January 2021

Chess 2022 featured in the February issue of the Czech edition of CHIP magazine. The issue comes out on January 20.
March 2021

Update 18 for Chess 2020

  • Improved German translation.
  • Improved UCI interface to prevent some engines from hanging in timed games.
  • Fine-tuned UCI dialog layout.
  • Fixed Windows XP compatibility.
  • Updated third-party components.

Product page | Update for existing users
December 2020

Update 1 for Chess 2022:

  • 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.

Product page | Update for existing users
March 2021

Update 19 for Chess 2013

  • Corrected German translation.
  • Updated third-party components.

Product page | Update for existing users
December 2020

Chess 2020 customer review
I think it's a very nice program. I was looking for something like this.
--Wim, The Netherlands
February 2021

Update 17 for Chess 2020

  • Improved New Game dialog.
  • Corrected piece-capture animation.
  • Fixed FEN parsing.
  • Fixed PGN parsing.
  • Improved automatic stopping of computation.
  • Corrected German translation.
  • Fixed loading of game parameters from files containing edit operations.
  • Updated third-party components.

Product page | Update for existing users
October 2020

Early impressions of Chess 2022 - Customer reviews

The new program is absolutely delightful and I am already having fun with it! I will never know how good the machine is at the high levels of play but it seems uncanningly human at the enthusiast level.
--TT, South Africa

Computer play is quicker and uses less RAM.  Positional play is stronger.  Endgames are stronger.
--David, Australia

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