2.79
2021-12-11
bug fixes
2.70
2020-06-13
Challenge Popups with Accept or Decline. This can be turned off on Settings tab
Join Tournaments option on Board tab
2.66
2020-05-23
App will no longer disconnect immediately on a screen lock but give a half minute to minute before closing socket
Four tournament channels added to channels list on channels tab
2.65
2020-05-21
Engine analysis available when observing or examining not just in openings study view
2.60
2020-05-16
Supports Dark mode and now a Black Board option in settings
Support for all iPhone sizes and no longer letterboxed on tallest iPhones
Can make font bigger now in settings than before
Internal Chess engine which has levels now offers Chess960
Improved guest experience only showing guests options they can use
2.57
2020-01-24
German Translation
In variants Loser's Chess and Giveaway lantern will ignore auto queen if on and provide a promotion dialog
2.56
2019-11-20
localized now in Spanish and French
2.55
2019-11-14
Made default connection on connection tab chessclub.com port 5000 and the alternate for those who 5000 port is blocked, main.chessclub.com port 443. Not all users were able to connect on main.chessclub.com, or the old alt1.chessclub.com which resolves to same IP as the main.chessclub.com, which should be resolved in the future.
2.54
2019-11-12
increased timeout on connect from five seconds to sixty to allow a connection if there is delay connecting.
2.53
2019-11-04
fixes for things that got broken with iOS 13 such as save name and pass, the channels tab, and move view up when keyboard appears
now when connecting to main.chessclub.com we use port 443 which chessclub recommends
2.52
2019-10-27
Support for main.chessclub.com the new connection standard at ICC vs the old chessclub.com
2.51
2019-08-10
Fixed bug introduced in 2.50 where scroll back arrows for observed games were appearing in played games when it was blacks turn to move
Scroll back arrows now on for sposition games. sposition is a way to view moves of game without examining
2.50
2019-08-06
Updated to have scroll back in observed games not just examined games
2.40
2019-07-10
The ability to observe multiple games at once
First Italian translation
2.32
2013-11-19
Fixed bug in the play the computer mode and the openings study mode were if one rook moved twice on second move it turned off the right of king to castle with the other rook.
2.31
2013-11-19
Added a computers and training area to options menu on ICC board.
The opening study and play the computer options on board tab's options menu now accessible to the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over
2.30
2013-11-19
Board and Consoles are now accessible for the blind and vision impaired using voice over. With voice over on if the user taps on a square like e2 it will say something like "e2 white pawn" or "e2 empty" double tap to select. It's recommended drag move be disabled if on. Moves are announced if voice over is on as they come in.
2.25
2013-11-19
Support for third party keyboards in two consoles, main and channels
On channels tab if the user adds a custom channel it adds it to channels list for next time but not saved between app lauches
2.24
2019-02-05
New channels tab for easy selection of channels to enter. An option to restore tab three to the previous split chat tab is available in settings
Wood Grain 2 option for board background added
Bug on removing a channel causing it to think you logged in again fixed
2.23
2019-01-21
In play the computer option now the onboard engine can better detect draw by repetition to avoid that, handle in atomic variant en passant captures
Slight delay added in untimed games in play the computer option on computer's move
Fix in play the computer option for some latency in moving the pieces on some devices when sound is on
2.22
2018-09-07
Openings View accessible on Board Tab's Options menu has a bigger opening book, move now for the crafty engine, and an option to save the current board to PGN which can be exported
The play the computer view now remembers the last game type played such as difficulty level and on launching the app when the user moves without setting up a new game it will be that personality
2.21
2018-09-01
New Wood Grain pattern in settings for board background color. This is now also the default board style for new installs
Fixed game over ICC board background color to more closely match the new background color choices
2.20
2018-08-30
Eight choices of board background color settable in settings. Default is white. All three board views share this choice, openings board, engine board and ICC Board
Fix for it not saving that the user had set board colors to custom. It remembered before the custom color choice but user between launches had to re-select custom
2.19
2018-08-04
Fix for ICC board's Action menu's Open PGN option only opening the Openings View but not it's PGN overlay when the control bar in Openings View was showing
2.18
2018-08-03
The Watch/Broadcast view shows an option to see the games in the current event game libraries available in addition to any current round's broadcast games. This opens the Board tab's Options menu's game list view with the games which can be tapped to examine.
2.17
2018-07-24
Can now view a players own ICC game history and library on Board's Options menu when connected as a member
After a game, on Board's Actions menu, is a Tell Last Opponent option
When using the game communication options on Board's Action menu, it will print typed text in game console and the user can tap the enter button not just send as before to send text
2.16
2018-02-09
Fix for iPhoneX so that the tab bar at bottom of App does not extend over bottom of program.
2.15
2018-01-17
Disabling smart quotes when typing in text input area on iOS 11.0 or greater
2.14
2018-01-04
Seek graph, on ICC Board's options menu - find an opponent, now has grid lines drawn on touch.
Minor sizing changes to seeks on seek graph.
2.13
2017-12-12
Fix for some videos on the Events list not showing in ICC Board's "Options" - > Video view.
2.12
2017-12-09
Now an option for Videos on the ICC Boards "Options" menu which opens the video in Safari. An ICC handle to login required to watch.
Sound is on in Openings Study View for moves if game sounds are on in settings.
2.11
2017-12-07
Now a Broadcast tab on the Top Games view for event games, in addition to online top games, which is accessible on the ICC Board's 'Options' menu.
2.10
2017-12-05
More chess piece sets.
Games played against the built in computer, Pulsar, accessible on Board tab's Options menu are now saved to a PGN file opened by going to Board's Action menu -> Open PGN. Any Crazyhouse and Atomic variant games can't be read by Lantern but when opening the log file there is an option to mail the game file out. The regular Chess games and Loser's, Giveaway and Three Checks variant games can be loaded.
In settings an option for sound on observation boards used to view games in the consoles.
2.09
2017-11-23
Prints game results in console when observation board is up and user is observing a game.
Choice of four observation board sizes in settings when observing games in a chat console.
Observation boards in consoles use larger text/font to display info like players names than before.
Observation boards now right aligned in consoles on iPad in Landscape mode.
Openings move table on iPhone fits more moves and is better justified.
2.08
2017-11-21
An option in settings for larger sized observe boards(default setting is larger) on the two console tabs.
Now a choice of some preset board colors in addition to the current ability to custom set light and dark square colors.
2.07
2017-08-18
Fix for last move highlight that got broken in version 2.06.
Alpha pieces now the new default setting for new installs.
2.06
2017-08-16
Fixed issue with Lantern not being able to connect to ipV6 only cellular networks.
2.05
2017-08-15
Client side move legality checking as opposed to previous server side only. If game sounds are on and Lantern finds a move illegal there will be a short buzzer sound.
Can open more kinds of PGN files such as files were moves are given as 1.e4 not 1. e4 i.e. with a space and can parse multiple spaces in the moves listing of a game.
When looking at PGN games, ICC board's Actions menu then choose Open PGN, names and material count are now at top of board.
ICC board's Actions menu has Examine Mode and Examine Last Game options when not playing, examining or observing.
ICC board's Actions menu has Unexamine and Unobserve options added when examining or observing.
PGN parsing improved in cases were two of the same piece, like a rook, can move to the same square and the PGN does not indicate which one, Lantern will now consider check.
2.01
2017-07-25
Fix for not being able to open PGN from mail attachments unless another one of my apps was installed first.
Made arrows on openings view board easier to tap for going forward and backward
2.00
2017-07-22
Fixed a bug were last move highlight did not highlight correctly on ICC game board.
Can now open PGN files. A PGN attached to an email if the attachment is long pressed can be opened in lantern.
Logs user's played games to PGN. User can go to Board tab's Actions menu at bottom right and choose open PGN to view.
Long press on a game in a game list in the console, for example after typing history to see the users recent games, has 'mail game' replaced with 'Save to PGN'.
After opening a PGN file and viewing game list, in game list view, top right there is an option to mail the file to export it out of lantern.
Added Pool buttons for games like 5-minute to the Board tab's Options menu - Find an Opponent view
1.96
2017-07-18
Fixed a bug in Openings view were Blacks moves reflected the win loss totals from white's perspective.
1.95
2017-07-14
Better opening book database that is a smaller file size but more moves.
The iPad split chat view tab is now on iPhone too
improvements to connectivity
1.94
2017-01-13
On connect view outdated "Backup" server option replaced with "Alternate" which allows those blocked from connecting normally to connect.