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PyChess Philidor Goes Gold!

General
General

PyChess Philidor 0.8 has been released. This happens after nearly a year
coding, and a rewrite of large parts of the codebase for stability and
features. If you haven't already beaten fruit, gnuchess, pychess-engine
and your friend with PyChess, now is time to!

The most prominent new features include:
- - - Online chess play on the FICS servers.
- - - Ability to undo and pause chess games.
- - - Support for UCI engines like Fruit, Glaurung and Shredder.
- - - Full list of changes: http://code.google.com/p/pychess/wiki/PhilidorRelease

Downloads: http://www.gnomefiles.com/app.php/PyChess
Full list of features: http://pychess.googlepages.com/about
Screenshots: http://pychess.googlepages.com/screenshots
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/pychess-people

The development of PyChess Stauton 1.0 has just begun. We strive to make
this the greatest free chess client out there, so if you have opinions,
don't let them go unheard on the mailing list!

If you would like help fix the translation of PyChess in your language,
see http://code.google.com/p/pychess/wiki/RosettaTranslates to get
started.

Release names

I find it a nice touch that releases are named after past champions. However, I'd object to the next release being called Staunton. In my opinion, "unofficial world champions" (i.e., world's best players before 1890) should be used for unstable (0.x) releases; official world champions for stable releases (from 1.0 on). So version 1.0 should be called Steinitz.