Fourth public preview version

• Installation problems with Ubuntu fixed (Ubuntu is quite unfriendly to self-installed software packages)
• PGN archives now can be modified and saved (.pgn and .pgn.gz)
• Important fixes in ChessBase decoder
• Color scheme for ordinary displays as default added, until now the color scheme was designed for high quality display
• File selection dialog is finished, especially Drag & Drop
• Merge dialog extended: now any number of games can be merged with the help of a preview display
• PGN setup for export options now is a separate dialog; this is important for PGN export, which is available in different menues
• Language dependent sorting implemented
• New themes added: "Blackjack" and "Country Style" (thanks to José Carlos Martins)
• Problem with slow down in game editor eliminated
• Upgrade of engine Stockfish to version 4
• Session management implemented: now Scidb will intervene if the user is doing a session shutdown while Scidb is writing/updating a database
• Copy game to clipboard implemented
• Export of current game implemented (for example to PGN file)
• New option in tree window: show next game move with bold font
• Comment editor overworked
• Game editor now detects and displays Smileys (optional)
• Help dialog: CQL help pages completed
• freedesktop.org requirements implemented:
  • Desktop menu entry for Scidb will be installed
  • Opening databases with a file manager is possible
• Custom menu check/radio-buttons implemented (as default)
• Toolbar now has drop-down buttons

Third public preview version

• Support of chess variants: Crazyhouse, Antichess (Suicide, Giveaway, Losers), and Three-Check
• More help pages
• Analysis window: launch external chess engines
• Setup-Dialog for the installation of chess engines
• Move input: pressing middle mouse button (or spacebar) alternates the move suggestion
• New database tab: list of sites
• Full-screen mode tweaked
• Command line tool cdb2sci added for conversion of databases to Scidb format (.sci)
• HTML widget reworked: saving resources in a highly significant way
• Swedish localization integrated (thanks to Lars Ekman)
• Spanish translation reactivated (thanks to Juan Carlos Vásquez)
• Spanish help pages added (thanks to Carlos Fernando González)
• HTML file export of tournament table
• New piece sets: "Free Staunton", and "Virtual"
• New board themes: "Blue Theme", "Staunton", and "Virtual"
• Automatic detection of character set when encoding games (regards si3/si4/cbh)
• Game browser: full-screen mode, and also maximize/minimize board, integrated
• File selection dialog improved; Drag&Drop among other things
• Game-Save/Replace dialog improved
• Merge of games including move transpositions (optional)
• Old ChessBase format (.cbf) is now supported as well
• Player notecards implemented
• Archiving databases integrated
• Setup dialog for game browser/editor
• Engine dictionary implemented
• Player dictionary implemented (with sort and filter functionality)
• Drag&Drop in file selection dialog implemented
• Drag&Drop in database switcher implemented: in this way games can be copied between databases
• Database window: docking/undocking of list tabs integrated
• Move input with mouse overworked (if move suggestion is disabled)
• Menu bar removed: instead a simple main menu exists; this is state-of-the-art, and the layout will be improved
• Compacting database (.sci only) integrated
• Installation/update via Internet of player photo files integrated
• Installation of ChessBase fonts integrated
• Tournament table: optional display of win/draw/loss
• Mouse wheel support for all lists and the chess board
• Algebraic (normal, short, and long), English, Correspondence, and Telegraphic move notations available
• Game editor has a new optional feature: show NAG comment instead of NAG symbol if the annotation is more unusual
• Now it is possible to import databases without to open beforehand
• Performance problem when opening ChessBase databases solved
• Export of tournament tables to HTML file
• Severe problem with Tcl version 8.6 solved
• Some icons newly designed