http://www.kimiensoftware.com/feed.rss Latest News for Kimien Software http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Wed, 06 June 2012 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Added extra decimal of precision to the avg depth per engine output.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Mon, 21 May 2012 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Forced all moves output to lower case to handle engines that output upper case moves and engines that cannot handle them as input.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Fixed output of some empty PGN games.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Fixed calculation of adjudication by score loss.

PGN and EPD files used for opening positions may now have spaces in their paths.

Fixed ambiguity in algebraic notation used (e.g. Rdd4 instead of R3d4).

Added number of opening positions to results display.

Fixed output of first move as white.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Added option to output full PGN of games. Testing shows no measurable slowdown.

Can read starting positions from PGN files.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Fixed parsing of FEN starting postitions.

Fixed bug with identifying mate and stalemate positions.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer Wed, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littleblitzer

Fixed number of games played in total and per engine. Will now always play the exact number asked.

Fixed reporting of illegal move when it should have been a repetition draw.

Each illegal move now generates a new file with a random suffix.

Some GUI tweaking.

Improved logging output.

Reduced LB overheads and more accurate measurement of real time taken by engines.

Added option to pick a random EPD position (defaults to sequential).

Added LB_Name engine parameter to overwrite engine's name in the results.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littlethought Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littlethought

Added Chess960 support

Re-implementation of multithreading, now uses YBWC and can use up to 8 threads

Extensive retesting of all eval features and removed several misbehaving features

Improved time management - can handle sub-second games and better able to extend/reduce time on searches

Added divide command

Fixed problem with using opening book

Fixed crash with extremely long games

Fixed a time control initialisation bug when switching between modes without restarting

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/database/speedquel Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/database/speedquel

Increased number of tabs from 100 to 200

Fixed crash bug when parsing a / on a long line

Fixed format of query with ) in line comments

Fixed cancel query not clearing status of session and making it unuseable

Fixed cursor display on lines with &

Enhanced format query to handle ANSI syntax

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/database/speedquel Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/database/speedquel

Complete custom rewrite of query editor:

• HUGE performance improvements across the board, especially with larger files
• Reduced memory usage
• Undo/Redo finally works!
• Improved SQL and unnamed PL/SQL block parsing
• Improved syntax colour highlighting
• Bracket scope highlighting
• Current query under cursor highlighting

Format Query improvements (now handles all other statements, eg update, insert, delete, with)

Started some memory usage tracking (via Help > About)

Fixed Save As CSV/Text bug with LOB columns

Fixed problem with cancel query sometimes ignoring the request

Fixed several miscellaneous and hard to reproduce crashes and memory leaks

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littlethought Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +1000 http://www.kimiensoftware.com/software/chess/littlethought

Fixed illegal move bug encountered when playing long games (> 200 moves)

Fixed bug with false single reply extensions being triggered

Several performance enhancements throughout the code (~15-20% faster)

Some endgame evaluation improvements

Several improvements to the search reductions

Better time management at very fast controls

Rename UseBook to OwnBook as per UCI standard

Fixed 64-bit compile options so the 64-bit program is significantly faster than the 32-bit one