Boardlore: World Chess & Go

About Boardlore: World Chess & Go

Two months of work: new ways to play and study, and a long list of fixes. - Two people can now play each other on one device: pick Two players on the Play tab, in any tradition - Set up any position in any tradition, then play it or study it - Paste in a game record to replay and review it; imported games are kept in your library and marked Imported - A Shogi game now exports as KIF and a Xiangqi game as WXF, the formats those traditions use, and Janggi shows its moves in Janggi notation - Calculation mode: the first moves are listed instead of played, so you picture the position and find the rest of the line - Learn has a new tactics layer: named tactical ideas you can play through, across most traditions - Every "Meet the pieces" row now shows how that piece moves, with its squares marked on a board - A timed Go game now uses a Go clock: byo-yomi with a period meter you can read at a glance, and Canadian overtime - Finishing a Go game and opening Review now shows your territory instead of "coming soon", the dead-stone reading is much more accurate, and every Go board draws the star points a real goban has - The review names the opening you played, stops counting book moves as your mistakes, offers to drill that opening, says which phase of the game your mistakes came in, and tells you which piece to move and where instead of notation you may never have seen - The Bot Ladder can be climbed in seventeen traditions instead of thirteen, and it now starts in the tradition you were playing instead of sending you to Western chess - A new setting puts Latin letters on Xiangqi and Janggi pieces, on the board and in the lessons, so you can identify every piece without reading Chinese or Korean characters - An Atomic capture now reads as an explosion, with its own sound, and a game-ending blast plays out before the result arrives. A piece destroyed by an explosion stays gone; it no longer flickers back into view on your next move - Seven traditions that offered no puzzles at all now have them, and the puzzle list tells two easy mates apart instead of treating them as one difficulty - A master volume slider, so you can turn the app down without muting it - A true-black appearance that saves power on OLED screens and is easier on the eyes in a dark room - A move played after your clock ran out now loses on time, and the board-less clock no longer sleeps mid-game or flags you for taking a phone call - Several ways a saved game could be lost, damaged, or silently replaced are closed - Screen readers now read move history as sentences in Xiangqi, Shogi, Minishogi, Janggi and Dobutsu; every solving surface can read you the whole board; buttons meet a comfortable tap size; and the app holds up at 200% text - The app downloads about 16 MB lighter - Wording and grammar fixes in every language the app ships in, including three traditions that named their pieces half in English on German and Japanese phones Thank you for playing. We would love your feedback.

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