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Ilya V. Portnov edited this page Apr 6, 2022
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This page describes menus of HCheckers client application.
- New Game. Open "new game" dialog to start a new game from scratch. Current game state will be discarded.
- Open Game. Open "new game" dialog to start a new game, by loading initial position from PDN or FEN file.
- Save position. Save current game state to FEN or PDN file.
- Save chart as image. Save currently displayed board to a PNG file.
- Undo. Undo the last move.
- Ask AI to stop thinking. This command is available when AI is thinking. If AI is thinking too long, you can ask it to stop thinking. AI will make the best move it thought of so far - it will be probably worse than one which AI would make if you let it think more.
- Ask AI for advice. This command is available when it is your turn, and you are playing against AI. This allows you to ask AI to think for you and give you an advice. The best moves will be displayed with colored arrows on the board. Colored arrows will disappear once you will make a move.
- Offer a draw. Send a draw offer to the other side. In case when there is a human player on another side, he will see a popup dialog asking whether he wishes to accept the draw. In case of AI player, it will react according to it's settings.
- Capitulate. Capitulate - explicitly loose the game.
- Start game. This command is available only in manual position setup mode. It confirms current setup and starts the game.
- Settings. Open Settings dialog.
Options of this menu are used (and available) only in manual initial position setup mode.
- Put white piece.
- Put black piece.
- Remove piece.
- Flip board (toggle). This turns the displayed board 180 degrees. This does not affect any game logic, only display. This can be useful if you wish to look at the position from another side.
- History (toggle). This toggles display of the History docker.
- Log (toggle). This toggles display of the Log docker.
Commands of this menu are useful when History docker is shown.
- Toggle history viewing mode. In this mode, you can see board state after any previous move in game history, by selecting the move in the History docker. You can not move pieces in this mode. When you exit this mode, the board returns to the state in which it was when you entered history viewing mode, and you can continue the game from the same place where you interrupted.
- Display initial position. This command is only available in history viewing mode. It shows the initial position of the game.
- Display next move. This command is only available in history viewing mode. It shows the state of the board after the next move (relative to one you are looking at now).
- Display last move. This command is only available in history viewing mode. It shows the state of the board after all moves in the history.