v1.2: AIs calibrated to your strength!
- New features include:
- Calibrated Rank AI, which plays at a more even strength throughout the game, and comes at strengths 15k-3d. Thanks to @bale-go by developing this AI.
- Move Tree support
- This also changed the key board shortcuts and move navigation to be consistent with the design: left/right now move to the next/previous move, and up/down are more flexible in what they can switch to.
- You can now click and drag on the score graph to navigate to a point in the game.
- The Play/Analysis tabs save the state of the options independently, so you can quickly switch between them.
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to quickly switch between these modes. - This makes the 'don't show top moves' in play mode less relevant, so it was removed.
- Also, the detailed information shown for moves in the text box when 'top moves' is selected was moved to its own option next to 'info'.
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- Russian translation thanks to Dmitry Ivankov and Alexander Kiselev
- The 'local response' AI now also has an endgame setting in which it plays normally.
- Other UI improvements include:
- An intermediate 'minimal UI' mode which only hides the top/bottom bars, cycle through modes with ` or
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- Better sound effects for counting down, thanks to nimets123
- No moves are made by the AI while the main menu or any configuration windows are open.
- Analysis options menu is now more clearly a dropdown menu, and its design was improved.
- Configuration menu styling was improved to be more consistent.
- General settings has more room for katago executable, model and config paths.
- Katago is no longer started when the exe, model or config file does not exist - instead a specific and useful error is given instead.
- An intermediate 'minimal UI' mode which only hides the top/bottom bars, cycle through modes with ` or
- Bug fixes include:
- A fix for MacOS not liking the screeninfo dependency
- SGF parsing improvements, including a fix for files from the dragon go server.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed with code, translations, audio files and suggestions. As always, you can share your ideas or offer help with improving or translating by using these ways to contact me.
As before the downloads under 'assets' include:
- KaTrain1.2.zip : the windows pyinstaller distribution as usual, containing both KaTrainNC.exe (no console, recommended) and KaTrain.exe (for more details in case of problems).
- KaTrainNC.exe: single file distribution - no need to unzip and easier to find the program, but will be slightly slower to start up.
- Linux and Mac users can use pip to install as always, see here for details on all the options.
Enjoy!