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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
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	October 2020 New product: Chess 2022 has been released! Existing customers will receive an upgrade discount via email in late October / early November. No email yet? Request the upgrade discount now Product page \| What's new
January 2021 Chess 2022 featured in the February issue of the Czech edition of CHIP magazine. The issue comes out on January 20.	September 2020 Chess 2020 customer review Really good work. Simple, clear graphics; but best of all, there are more difficulty levels and these are not created out of thin air but very well designed, so that an amateur or child can improve and one can enjoy chess instead of beating the first level easily and then being decisively defeated in the second level. --Martin, Czechia

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