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• New Images of Chess Pieces

  The implementation of the new images of the chess pieces has been finished. An image for the chessboard is also planned, but this will take a little bit longer. Can you spot the difference between the old and new ones? The first one: The second one: Arrows Read More... Posted Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011 05:38 by StefanRenzewitz | 7 Comments Filed under: New Images of Chess Pieces

• Merry Christmas and a Final Release of CPT

  I wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope you have some relaxing days. A final release is ready for downloading now. This version does not expire although some features will be deactivated after 30 days unless you register it. More about this in a later Read More... Posted Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011 08:31 by StefanRenzewitz | 46 Comments Filed under: CPT 4 Final

• Advanced Version: Your Opinion wanted on Price and Features

  I'm in the final stage of releasing CPT 4. As previously announced there will be a free and a paid advanced version. This might sound strange or surprising, but I would like to ask you for your opinion which features should be reserved for the "Advanced Read More... Posted Montag, 12. Dezember 2011 00:25 by StefanRenzewitz | 23 Comments

• Chess Position Trainer 4 - Release Candidate available

  The release candidate version is 99% feature complete. The biggest change is the new training module. A show stopper issue just before releasing this new version stopped me from including the last big new feature: new chess pieces. So, this will be saved Read More... Posted Mittwoch, 30. November 2011 09:25 by StefanRenzewitz | 24 Comments

• New Beta Version 1.8 available

  All reported issues are fixed with this beta and 99% of all planned features are implemented. Last beta will be released in November. Databases created with this version will be supported in the final version in December. Databases created with previous Read More... Posted Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011 08:56 by StefanRenzewitz | 24 Comments Filed under: CPT 4 Beta 1.8

• Separating Training Functionality from the Opening Module?

  The other day a user suggested to create a separate module for training instead of being part of the opening module. He wrote: “I think the UI can be simplified by adding an ‘Opening Training button’ in the navigation panel. This way switching between Read More... Posted Dienstag, 27. September 2011 02:58 by StefanRenzewitz | 17 Comments Filed under: Training Module CPT 4

• Separating Training Functionality from the Opening Module?

  The other day a user suggested to create a separate module for training instead of being part of the opening module. He wrote: “I think the UI can be simplified by adding an ‘Opening Training button’ in the navigation panel. This way switching between Read More... Posted Dienstag, 27. September 2011 02:07 by StefanRenzewitz | 0 Comments

• CPT office closed till mid-september

  I will be on vacation for about 3 weeks in the Rocky Mountains area. Then I return I expect to be full of energy to finalize CPT 4. If you haven't tried it yet I recommend to download the latest beta 1.7 This new beta not only offers sound (which you Read More... Posted Samstag, 20. August 2011 06:17 by StefanRenzewitz | 4 Comments

• We got sound - CPT unmuted (Beta 1.7)!

  The just released new beta 1.7 is not only more stable, but the sound is back and it has been much improved since CPT 3.3. If you liked how CPT uses sounds to keep you motivated you will be glad to read (or better hear) that the new beta has not only Read More... Posted Donnerstag, 18. August 2011 16:05 by StefanRenzewitz | 4 Comments

• New Beta Version 1.6 available

  The new beta 1.6 version should fix all know serious issues and give a performance boost to several functions (e.g. adding moves for openings with >70,000 moves). There are some new features for the statistic module (which is much faster now too), Read More... Posted Dienstag, 2. August 2011 08:50 by StefanRenzewitz | 24 Comments

• The 3-in-1 Bug Fix just by changing 7 Characters

  This happens very rarely, but sometimes you really have "luck" as a developer. Usually it goes like this: A user reports a bug. The developer thinks: "Oh well, this is a small issue I can easily fix." and then it turns-out it takes hours and days to fix Read More... Posted Dienstag, 12. Juli 2011 21:53 by StefanRenzewitz | 10 Comments

• New Beta Version 1.5 available

  Getting close to the final version there have been several important improvements especially for the training mode. First of all the Position Explorer, my favorite new toy, is quite performance intensive. I have abondend the Beginner / Expert mode and Read More... Posted Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011 06:30 by StefanRenzewitz | 11 Comments Filed under: CPT 4 Beta

• Speed matters

  About two weeks ago Rich told me that the program does not run properly with large repertoires. I was aware that it was not yet as fast as CPT 3.3, but at least CPT 4 was supposed to be much better scalable than the previous version and thus it should't Read More... Posted Montag, 18. April 2011 06:42 by StefanRenzewitz | 10 Comments

• New Beta Version 1.2 available

  Now, this took much loooooooooonger than I expected. I released version 1.1 on a Friday and planned to release version 1.2. the following Sunday as I was making great progress fixing remaining issues. Everything was fine till I decided I will "just" make Read More... Posted Montag, 21. März 2011 08:04 by StefanRenzewitz | 25 Comments Filed under: Beta 1.2

• New Beta Version 1.1 available (much improved)

  We are reaching a status where the software should be already very stable again. All reported issues have been fixed and many things polished. If you haven't tried the CPT 4 beta, now is a good moment to start! There are two new things I would like to Read More... Posted Samstag, 5. Februar 2011 20:59 by StefanRenzewitz | 39 Comments Filed under: CPT 4 Beta