Changes in KingsRow version 1.16d

• KingsRow has a new parallel search which can use up to 4 search threads on a quad-core CPU. This makes the search as much as 3x faster than a single search thread.
• A new CheckerBoard.exe is included in this setup file.
  • There is a new engine options dialog which is accessible using the menu Engine, Options, then click on the "More Options" button. This new dialog provides a number of new controls useful for configuring KingsRow. There are several new controls for configuring WLD and MTC databases. There is a browse control for selecting the opening book file. There is also a control to select the number of parallel search threads and show the number of CPU cores that are present.
  • CheckerBoard and KingsRow are now Vista compliant, which means you can now use them without getting the annoying messages from Vista's User Account Control saying, "An unidentified program wants to access your computer, Cancel or Allow...". To make this happen, all log files, user pdn files, analysis files, etc. are now written under the user's Documents directory, instead of under Program Files where they were previously written. However, Cake is not yet Vista compliant, so if you select it as one of the engines you might still get this UAC message.
  • A bug was fixed in CheckerBoard which prevented it from clearing the history of played positions in the engines when using the Forward and Back toolbar commands. This caused KingsRow to sometimes incorrectly think that the position was a draw by repetition when using Analysis mode.
  • The menu command Edit, "PDN from Clipboard", or CTRL-V, can now be used to paste either pdn or a position string into CheckerBoard. In the previous version these commands would appear to paste a position string into CheckerBoard, but the side to move color was always set to white regardless of the color given in the position string.
  • The install file for KingsRow 1.16d does not contain a complete installation for CheckerBoard, it only replaces CheckerBoard.exe (and CheckerBoard64.exe in 64-bit installs). This only works when installed on top of an existing installation of CheckerBoard. If you do not have an existing CheckerBoard installation, install this first using the install file from Martin's site, then install KingsRow 1.16d.