Picochess V 0.9N with the following changes/enhancements:
Following enhancements to the 0.9N version have been implemented:
0. Version set to 1.0 (finally ;-)
1. Voice announcements even if time < 1 minute
2. Possibility to continue playing even if one player runs out of time
3. Pre-Moves: Computer and user moves can be done in rapid sequence
(no need to wait for registration of computer move). Even the
own move could be played before computer move - it doesn't matter
4. New flexible ponder mode: no more checks if valid moves, position can
be setup without any restrictions (of course it must be a legal one)
Makes analysis and playing different variants much easier
5. Remote mode working again (without room handling, see menu.py)
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6. Version set to 2.0
7. Framework for adding (more or less funny) speech comments based on
various events
8. Rolling display of time/score/depth/hintmove in Ponder On or Normal Mode
9. Continue directly after start with an interrupted game if board still shows
last position by reading the last games pgn file
10. New cool training mode with training options (with big thanks to Wilhelm!!!)
11. Configuration parameters for all 1.00/2.00 enhancements in picochess.ini
12. Various bug fixes (eg. pressing the outer buttons for quick restart
instead of shutdown like it was intended, calc. error in evaluation)
Again: big thanks to Wilhelm!
13. Renaming of the play modes! Now we have:
New mode name Old mode name
a5 NORMAL (rolling info display off by default) NORMAL
b5 PONDER ON (rolling info display on by default) BRAIN
c5 MOVE HINT ANALYSIS
d5 EVAL.SCORE KIBITZ
e5 OBSERVE OBSERVE
f5 ANALYSIS (flexible option on by default) PONDER
g5 TRAINING (this is new in 2.00) -
h5 REMOTE (working again from 1.00 on) REMOTE
14. Version set to 2.01
15. Support of changing the voice volume via menu option and picochess.ini
If you don't want to replicate/replace the whole repository on your Pi and only if you are already on my personal picochess version 1.0, you only need to replace the following files in the picochess directory:
Files to be replaced in…
... /opt/picochess:
- picochess.py
- picochess.ini (just adjust your own one and add the new lines at the end of the default picochess.ini.example_v2 )
- utilities.py
- timecontrol.py
- pgn.py
- server.py
… /opt/picochess/dgt:
- display.py
- menu.py
- pi.py
- translate.py
- translate_old.py (use this one instead of translate.py if you want to keep the old mode names)
- util.py
- api.py
… /opt/picochess/talker:
- picotalker.py
Unfortunately picochess (version 0.9N and this 2.0 version) is at the moment not compatible to python-chess version 24.0 and higher so don't upgrade python-chess. You even should stay with 22.1 version because of incompatibilties with web server display and elo engines.
Stand alone chess computer based on Raspberry Pi and DGT electronic chess board.
See installation instructions, manual, and website.
