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This bug has already been noticed and fixed a few weeks ago. Now the app never plays the promotion. The bug was caused by the draw detection in the evaluation function. It was... trying to be a little too smart. :) Thank you for reporting this. Thanks for correcting it. When will the new version co...

About your points 1 and 2: the Chess Tiger engine inside the iOS app has been vastly improved since the last public PC versions, but in the app it is tuned to play against human players. So the behavior of the engine should not be judged by the same standard as other strong engines discussed in thi...

This bug has already been noticed and fixed a few weeks ago. Now the app never plays the promotion. The bug was caused by the draw detection in the evaluation function. It was... trying to be a little too smart. :) Thank you for reporting this. Thanks for correcting it. When will the new version co...

This bug has already been noticed and fixed a few weeks ago. Now the app never plays the promotion.

The bug was caused by the draw detection in the evaluation function. It was... trying to be a little too smart.

Thank you for reporting this.

After Doublecheck 3.4, I renamed my engine Discocheck (starting with 3.5). Many reasons for that choice: - what used to be double check extensions and specific treatments in the search, actually became discovered check instead. - Discocheck is chess slang for discovered check - it contains disco an...

For this specific case, the reason is mostly commercial. Apple wants developers to create apps specifically for the iPad. With the graphic processing power already available since the first iPad, real time resizing is possible and even if it's not perfect it would be better than using the lowest iPh...

1:1 with black border uses the LOW iPhone resolution and then doubles the pixels, resulting in the blockiness you can see. 1:1 with black borders using the retina resolution would result in apps the same size as they currently are using the 2x button, but with no blockyness at all. It's a mystery th...

geots wrote:Just what I needed. One question dredges back to page one all the chess for iphone, ChessTiger and Theron crap.


Nausea regards,

gts

Thanks! So tasty it makes me almost regret I don't come here more often.


// Christophe

You can blame Apple for this. Ironically, the iPad's resolution is larger in both X and Y than the retina iPhone's. So one can wonder why Apple does not display retina iPhone apps in full resolution on the iPad. I can't think of a single technical reason not to do so. But don't worry, it looks like ...

Thank you Alex!


// Christophe