Tarrasch V3.03a

+The edit improvements of the previous release came at the cost of a new bug - deleting a comment would often lead to transient display glitches - eg if the screen showed 1.e4 Comment 1...e5 deleting the Comment would leave 1.e4 1...e5 instead of 1.e4 e5. Fortunately saved .pgn data was not affected. Bug fixed.
+File Save As did not close the handle of the new file immediately, which could cause problems if the new file was manipulated again before exiting Tarrasch. Bug fixed.
+File handling corner cases involving games stored in the clipboard fixed.
+Pierre Havard has resumed publication of Kingbase and I have reverted to Kingbase Lite as my default database and retired my temporary solution Tarraschbase (Tarraschbase was kind of my own 'fork' of Kingbase).
+The default database name is now 'kingbase-lite.tdb', i.e. there is no date information in the name itself, so the name won't change as future versions are released. This should make it easier for users to upgrade the database in future - just download the latest version, no need to point Tarrasch at a new file name.
+Some message box dialogs with longer titles than message text have have had title and message text swapped around avoiding truncation of the title.
+Upper limit on Engine Hash in UI increased from 4GB to 32GB

Tarrasch V3.02a

• Annoying problems with editing games with many variations and comments (so that the edit window needs to scroll) fixed. The edit cursor no longer jumps to bottom line, and scroll position is preserved if you switch tabs.
• A side effect of the fix above is that text editing (for comments) is faster than ever, faster than previous V3 versions and much faster than V2.
• Introduce Tarraschbase - Kingbase lite 2016-03 plus more recent games from Twic. This is hopefully a temporary measure until Kingbase is updated again.
• Screen adjustment for improved games dialog behaviour on commodity 720p laptops.
• Kibitz box is dynamically scaled to show all four lines - not always 99 pixels high.
• Deleting games in games dialogs behaves better.
• Stalemate and Checkmate positions no longer sent to engine for analysis.
• Bug fixed: (Bug was; Cannot save recalculated ECOs to file.)
• Bug fixed: (Bug was; Modify game -> make new tab -> go back to game -> undo changes game still shows as modified even though undo stack correctly shown as empty).
• Inappropriate sharing of pgn games dialog help screen with clipboard and session games dialogs corrected.
• Long overdue update from Komodo V3 to Komodo V8 (apologies for not noticing that the Komodo free version has changed dramatically).

Tarrasch V3.01a

Bugfix release

portable-tarrasch-v3.01a-g.zip

Change log:

• Add progress gauge when writing duplicate games, previously this slow operation appeared as stuck progress
• Title of progress bar during duplicate games write allows discoverability
• Write duplicate pgn file after database written - so it is optional and can be cancelled
• Engine dialog box works on smaller screens
• Arrows allow tab navigation when number of tabs fills main screen
• Heading in frame is the default option
• Pattern search - "Don't allow extra material" no longer the default!
• Avoid slowly leaking memory on meta-data as databases loaded or created
• Problems with pattern and material balance searches using clipboard as temporary database - fixed
• Ctrl-A = select all finally works in game dialogs
• Error handling in append database was broken - sometimes (eg unrecognised file format) leaving user unsure what happened
• Slightly more informative "can't load database" message
• Never show asterisk = file modified if no current file!
• Order files after database append as intended - so most recent games appear first

Tarrasch V3.00a

This is Tarrasch V3, first real (not Alpha, not Beta) release. After many years of development. I will update my development blog soon. See also my website www.triplehappy.com
portable-tarrasch-v3.00a-g.zip

Tarrasch V3 Beta 2016-11-20

This is a release candidate, hopefully the final Tarrasch V3 Beta. It features a huge number of refinements relative to the previous Beta.

All chess boards larger (use space more efficiently) with configurable colours and move highlighting
All chess graphics has improved anti-aliasing for crisper borders
Number of custom UCI parameters increased from four to six
Added open recent files (mru) functionality
Menu shortcuts and help strings finally work according to Windows standard (after many years of not noticing a problem :)
Paste into edit window will (finally) parse and use .pgn tags if present.
Much more complete and effective Ratings filters for database creation
Now works on Windows XP
Can capture engine output when playing against engine (this was an unnoticed bug in Tarrasch V2)
Lag N moves training feature was broken in previous release, now fixed
Fixed major bug whereby Undo/Takeback did not play nicely with fixed period mode. This was an unnoticed bug in Tarrasch V2
Update default engine to Stockfish 8
Ticking clocks are now red
"Reply to ..." prompts are now red
Tabs can now be closed with mouse
Many small bug fixes

Tarrasch V3 Beta 2016-10-12

Latest Beta features many refinements after much testing. It updates the Beta to use the fresh new look, including a coloured resizable board found in the nightly releases.
portable-tarrasch-v3-beta-2016-10-12-a-g.zip

Tarrasch V3 Nightly 2016-09-19

This release features a fresh new look for Tarrasch, including for the first time a coloured, resizable chess board. Tarrasch V3 is now very close to feature complete, and the remaining work required is to tighten up all the details, but especially the workflow interelationships between games, files and tabs.
portable-tarrasch-v3-nightly-2016-09-19-a-g.zip

Tarrasch V3 Nightly 2016-08-13

The initial nightly build follows a period of streamlining the Github repository, including upgrading to the latest version of wxWidgets, elimination of all compile warnings and a new developer friendly structure making it easy to jump into Tarrasch development for the first time.

Tangible benefits for users include resolution of one long term problem (slowdown in editing as comment
density increases) and a swish new Tarrasch icon.

I've called it Nightly because it is the very latest code, but not necessarily a new Beta candidate. I don't intend to create Nightly releases every day, or even every week (so I suppose it's a bad name).

portable-tarrasch-v3-nightly-2016-08-13-a-g.zip

Tarrasch V3 Beta Updated (again sorry)

I find that I cannot live with the embarrassing bug that .pgn games with an intro comment do not preview. So fixed.
portable-tarrasch-v3-beta-2016-07-20-a-g.zip

Tarrasch V3 Beta Updated

This is Tarrasch V3 Beta plus a fix to a small but annoying problem - now that the position setup dialog doesn't start with a blank board it's really important to start with a custom cursor.
portable-tarrasch-v3-beta-2016-07-13-a-g.zip