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Details

Package ID

en-croissant

Version

0.16.1

Downloads

1588

Website

https://encroissant.org/

Summary

An open-source, cross-platform chess GUI that aims to be powerful, customizable and easy to use.

Description

En Croissant - The Ultimate Chess Toolkit

En-Croissant is an open-source, cross-platform chess GUI that aims to be powerful, customizable and easy to use.

Features

• Play Chess offline
  • Play against an Engine or a friend locally
  • Configure a custom time control, or take your time with an Unlimited clock
  • Use the same or differing time settings for both players
  • Prepare a Repertoire and train with spaced repetition
  • Train your chess skills with Puzzles
    • Native support for Lichess Puzzles
• Store games
  • Create games from either Portable Game Notation (PGN) or Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN)
  • Import from a PGN file
  • Download previously played games from Lichess and Chess.com
  • Save games as PGN files
• Engine integration and management
  • Native support for some popular local engines (e.g. Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero, Komodo)
  • Query select cloud-based engines (i.e. ChessDB, Lichess Cloud)
  • Supports all Universal Chess Interface (UCI) engines
• Database analysis and management
  • Native support for some popular databases
    • Ajedrez Data’s Over the Board (OTB)
    • Ajedrez Data’s Correspondence (CORR)
    • Caissabase
    • MillionBase
  • Create a database from a Lichess or Chess.com account’s game history
  • Track player wins/draws/losses, Elo, International Chess Federation (FIDE) statistics, and openings
  • Track tournament games and leaderboards
  • Merge player records
  • Prune empty or duplicate games
• Analyze games
  • Set up and play a past game from a given position
  • Run multiple Engines to find the optimal move
  • Search a reference database for exact or similar games, and forecast the current game’s results with a given move
  • Annotate moves

Package Notes

The installer executed by this package was built using Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). For advanced setup scenarios, refer to NSIS’s command-line interface documentation. Any desired arguments can be appended to (or optionally overriding with the --override-arguments switch) the package’s default install arguments with the --install-arguments option.

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For future upgrade operations, consider opting into Chocolatey’s useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature to avoid having to pass the same arguments with each upgrade:

choco feature enable --name="'useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades'"

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