Notes beside the board and personal annotations
Visible Starting notes, manual annotation symbols, colored board drawings, and dedicated help guides.
Added
- Add annotation… in the Game Moves right-click menu, with manual move-quality and position-assessment symbols. Select one from each group, replace or toggle a selection, or use Clear annotation. Gold manual symbols remain separate from Stockfish’s assessments.
- Colored arrows and square outlines on the 2D and 3D boards. Use Draw on board and Green, Red, or Yellow controls, or Alt-click/drag shortcuts: Alt for green, Alt+Shift for red, and Alt+Ctrl for yellow.
- Position-specific drawings that toggle off when repeated, change color when redrawn, and can be removed with Clear drawings. Saved games, annotated PGN, and Analysis JSON preserve them.
- Dedicated help guides for taking notes and adding annotations and drawing arrows and highlighting squares.
Improved
- The main board workspace shows the displayed position’s note, with Add/Edit controls and scrolling for long notes in both Compact and Expanded layouts.
- A Starting position row in Game Moves opens the initial board and its note. View starting note keeps that context accessible from later positions.
- Saved Games shows a two-line Starting note preview. Clicking it opens the starting position; the larger final-board preview displays the full Starting note beneath the board.
- Manual symbols round-trip through standard PGN numeric annotation glyphs. Drawings use
[%cal ...]and[%csl ...]comment extensions; compatibility with other programs depends on their support for those extensions. Plain PGN omits personal annotations. - The Features page has dedicated notes and drawing sections, with links to help. Each feature heading remains paired with all its paragraphs in the desktop and narrow-screen layouts.
Fixed
- Missing font glyphs in the annotation menu: slight and clear advantage assessments use readable text equivalents such as
+=and+/-.
