Improve your chess skill and play against a variety of AI opponents. Access a collection of training exercises, manuals, guides, and bots to help new players adjust to the environment and gameplay dynamics. Enter a competition mode and lay with no restrictions.
Lucas chess is a Windows app designed for users who wish to start learning how to play chess game from the comfort of their home. The program gives you access to a wide range of tutorials, allows you to practice what you've learned, and lets choose between multiple difficulty levels for your opponents.
This application is suitable for users of various ages. If you're new with this type of board games, you should start by clicking the "Training" button from the main menu of the app. You can choose from a wide range of practice modes and receive plenty of useful instructions to improve your game.
Once you think you're ready for a challenge, click over the "Play" button and configure the game's settings according to your needs. The app lets you choose the preferred difficulty level for your opponent, interval of time for the moves, etc. A good thing is that you can configure the app to provide you with hints.
The only thing I don't like about this application is its interface. To me, it's a bit unappealing.
Still, this program is one of the best chess tutor apps I tested on my Windows PC. In addition, it comes without a price. So, it's definitely worth installing it on your computer if you want to learn how to play chess games.
v6.1 [Dec 19, 2011]
New Training: Find the best move (proposed by Ransith Fernando and bolokay)
- It feeds on the analysis of games or from training-positions directly
PGN Viewer
- Mass Analysis to detect blunders and brilliancies( proposed by Daniel Trebejo and developped thanks to ideas of Roberto Mizzoni)
- Add option to create a training to "Play like a grandmaster" (proposed by Filomeno Marmalé)
- If games are with FEN, you can create a book to training these personal positions.
- It is possible to select more than one file, to remove by example.
Analysis of a game
- You can create files to train as mass analysis(Daniel Trebejo and Roberto Mizzoni)
- Blunders detected appear in orange, big blunders in red, moves that match engine in blue, and brillant moves in purple (Roberto Mizzoni and Georg Pfefferle).These color can be changed from Config-View-Board themes PGN
- Option to save all analysis in variants(proposed by Filomeno Marmalé)
- Option to change order of analysis, from end to beginning (proposed by istolacio)
- You can enter a polyglot book to skip the opening moves
Creating your own game
- You can configure that each time you move the engine responds.(proposed by bolokay)
- Added Paste PGN.
Game against an engine of your choice
- Direct paste FEN position
The game of the day
- You can choose a file other than the standard training or initial positions PGN file or a file of fens (proposed by Joaquin Alvarez)
- You can change the board size.
General
- By pressing Control 1 tutor plays instead of the player (proposed by Indy)
- When there is a game on the screen in the section of the PGN, pressing the Home key, go to the home position (proposed by bolokay)
- Configuration-Board-Coordinates can be changed from 4 sides -> 2 sides
- Colors of the board, you can specify the border color (proposed by Mohammed A.)
Engine updated, Pawny 0.3.1
