Kvetka Changelog

What's new in Kvetka 4.0.2

Dec 29, 2017
  • It has improved recognition of chess games from Chess Assistant bases.

New in Kvetka 4.0 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • Working with groups of games. They can be deleted, saved, their tags can be edited altogether and so on.
  • New columns "Plies", "Notation" and "ECO" can be displayed in "Games" window. They are defined by the game itself.
  • New look of comments in "Moves" window. Now they are displayed inline and can contain diagrams.
  • We started adjusting all Kvetka's windows for various resolutions of displays.
  • Other minor changes, improvements and bugfixes.

New in Kvetka 3.30 (Dec 15, 2016)

  • We have made editing of some additional game and position data easier. For example, you can edit almost any text from the list of games by just clicking on it and pressing Ctrl. You can also change an active player at the placing figures stage by clicking on the area above or below the board. In addition, we added the newest, 8th version of Stockfish chess engine to Kvetka. It was recently proved to be the strongest engine in the world.

New in Kvetka 3.29 (Oct 31, 2016)

  • The games from one of the biggest online chess databases chess-db.com are now supported. We also slightly improved the recognition of non-standard pgn files and fixed various bugs. One of them could potentially crash Kvetka.

New in Kvetka 3.28 (Aug 17, 2016)

  • Now it supports online games from lichess.org. We decided to support only the finished games from there, because otherwise Kvetka would have become a handy tool for cheaters. Also new hotkeys were added which allow to make any recommended move or variation, not only the main one. Finally, a series of bugfixes has been made, most of them are related with saving huge game bases such that not all the games are stored in the memory.

New in Kvetka 3.27.1 (May 3, 2016)

  • It mostly fixes bugs which are related with recently introduced recognition of games from Chess Assistant bases. However one relatively important bug in "Save one game" procedure was also discovered.

New in Kvetka 3.27 (Apr 21, 2016)

  • Now it opens chess bases from Chess Assistant, PGN files in UTF-8 encoding and it works much faster with big bases from SCID. Also an indicator of the current player was added and reasonably many other minor changes and bugfixes were implemented.

New in Kvetka 3.26.1 (Feb 15, 2016)

  • Now at the position setup phase the right click on the board places the piece of the opposite colour. We also restored the support of online games from chess.com site. Finally we have made several bugfixes and updated the default chess engine to Stockfish 7.

New in Kvetka 3.26 (Dec 3, 2015)

  • Added - If you press the middle mouse button over the course in the "Journal" Show tips with a summary of the position arising after this move.
  • Added - Recognition of online games with modern-chess.com
  • Added - Recognition of some online, created by ChessBase.
  • Fixed - If the current is in the course of the branches, then when the display titled debut in the "Journal", the name will not appear until until you reach the other party.
  • Fixed - If you delete all the columns in the "Party", then back to return them fail.
  • Fixed - If you select "Always add to the list", even when downloading games for the first time the list of parties is marked as modified.
  • Fixed - possible memory leak when loading online games.
  • Fixed - In the selection of the next turn is always used international short notation.

New in Kvetka 3.25.1 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • Some other minor changes and bugfixes are also made.

New in Kvetka 3.25 (Apr 20, 2015)

  • We improved the way it handles incorrect pgn files. In particular, Kvetka stores all pgn games recognition errors in pgnerror.log file. We also fixed bugs in new online games from chesspro.ru recognition and made some other minor changes

New in Kvetka 3.24 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • A new version of program is released - Kvetka 3.24. Again we had to adapt to a new design of online chess games from chesspro.ru. We also added a new hotkey which shows an additional position information (available castlings, number of invertible half-moves, etc.) and made some other minor changes.

New in Kvetka 3.23.2 (Nov 14, 2014)

  • A new version of program is released - Kvetka 3.23.2.
  • Firstly the chesspro.ru web page has changed their online chess games format so we had to adapt to these changes. Secondly we prepaired Kvetka to display chess games in various notations. This feature itself is implemented in a separate plugin "Chess notation" which is also released today.
  • And of course we fixed a couple of minor bugs.

New in Kvetka 3.23.1 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • We slightly improved a recognition of some games and positions.
  • We also added a support of online chess games from chess-news.ru web site and made some other minor changes and fixes.

New in Kvetka 3.23 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Quite long ago we were asked to add notification messages about checkmate/stalemate and other draw positions in a game. Finally we have implemented it. We have also changed the method of ECO beginning recognition to make it more reliable and essentially sped up the opening process of large cbh game databases.

New in Kvetka 3.22.1 (Jun 16, 2014)

  • We simplify editing an additional information for games and make some other minor changes and bugfixes. Also the default chess engine is upgraded to Stockfish 5.

New in Kvetka 3.22 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • We add a support of games from igame.ru web-page and also slightly changed the way Kvetka deals with its options to ensure that it works normally with the latest versions of Windows.

New in Kvetka 3.21 (Feb 26, 2014)

  • Some new options related to the appearance of the chessboard are added to it. As usual we fixed several bugs, one of them is quite serious, it could potentially cause the loss of data.

New in Kvetka 3.20.2.0 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • It fixes several bugs. One of them appeared in the previous version and could potentially cause the loss of data.

New in Kvetka 3.20.1.0 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • A new and more powerful version of Stockfish engine was also added and finally, as usual, some bugs were fixed.

New in Kvetka 3.20.0.0 (Aug 30, 2013)

  • The procedure of adding games to the current list was unified in it. With help of new menu item one can add games to the current list irrespective of the source they came from (online, clipboard or file). As usual some bugs were fixed and some other minor changes were made.