Notable releases and improvements. Launch-week fixes are noted here as they ship.
July 21, 2026
A rebuilt Repertoire, side by side with practice
Repertoire now pairs a build view with a live practice drill on one board, coverage reflects what opponents actually play, and the whole app picks up a calmer navy look.
- Build and practice at once — the Repertoire tab runs a build rail and a practice rail side by side on a single board, so you can drill a line the moment you add it
- Coverage that reflects reality — a line's coverage is now weighted by what opponents actually play, so the gaps it flags are the ones you'll really face
- A plainer practice loop with spatial drills and clearer line labels, and win-rate now leads each candidate move with the engine number demoted beneath it
- Make a move straight from the coach — the moves Pallas names in its answers and review narrations are clickable, and live status lines show what the coach is working through
- Master-grade Leakfinder drills — each leak plays out as a full multi-move line with its refutation, topped up from a rated puzzle library
- A calmer default look — a navy (Cobalt) dark theme is now the base, with a single chess-native icon set throughout; the old dark grey is a one-tap preset
July 17, 2026
A search bar that types like a sentence
Game Search now turns what you type into chips as you go, and a long-standing stability bug that could freeze the app is gone.
- Type naturally in Game Search — a comma or a space commits the chip for you, filler words like "games with" are absorbed, and backspace turns the last chip back into text to edit
- Refine without losing your place — half-typed text survives a refine, and every term the autocomplete offers you is now guaranteed to match something
- Fixed: the app could freeze while your cloud collections synced in the background
- Tablets and short screens now get the full workstation, including a proper Game Search pane and a single, uncluttered nav
- Founding membership is live — the first 100 members get 30% off Pro for as long as they stay subscribed
July 13, 2026
A rebuilt game review, faster search, and deeper opponent prep
Review now finds the moments that actually decided the game, Game Search is far quicker, and Scout prepares opponents along your own repertoire lines.
- Rebuilt game review — rather than a note on every move, review finds the handful of moments that decided the game and checks each one deeply, with tablebase confirmation in the endgame
- Review results lead with a plain-English headline and labeled accuracy bars, can be narrated on demand in the Pallas coach's voice, and can be committed into the game as ChessBase-style symbols
- Faster, friendlier Game Search — build a query from editable chips instead of guessing syntax, refine without starting over, and sort any column across the whole result set
- Search by structure and phase — find named pawn structures like the isolated queen's pawn or Carlsbad, scope a theme to one side, and narrow to the phase it appears in
- Deeper Scout prep — an opponent's replies overlay your repertoire lines, with the games where they lost in them and an Elo-expected par for each gap
- Sharper Leakfinder — a deeper master-level scan, tablebase-backed endgame checks, and a Trends tab tracking whether the leaks you drilled are closing
- A rebuilt phone experience — a four-tab shell (Search · Board · Scout · Coach) with an eval gauge, compact engine lines, and a Drill tab for prep on the go
July 3, 2026
A coach on every tab and a cleaner board
Pallas now floats alongside you wherever you work, and the notation, evaluation graph, and top bar all got a polish pass.
- Pallas floating dock — the coach rides a corner dock that stays with you on every tab, not just the analysis view; ask a question without it blocking the board, and resize or minimize it to taste
- The coach greets you with a fresh line each session, and a follow-up about the same position moves the idea forward instead of restating it
- Redesigned notation — a solid tile marks the current move with a matching index gutter, sub-variations sit on a clean indented rail, and the move list no longer tints blue in dark mode
- Evaluation panel — a Graph / Review toggle switches between the advantage curve and the move-by-move review, and Interesting (!?) moves are recolored to read as distinct from Brilliant
- Appearance controls — a "Panel borders" toggle turns off container outlines for a flatter look, and panels pick up subtle elevation with a per-theme board border
- Sharper top bar and Game Search — a trimmer bar with hover-reveal tab closes, a results settings cog, results that adapt as you resize the panel, and a much faster common-theme scan
July 2, 2026
A live status bar and novelty spotting
Keep an eye on engine and sync from a new status bar, and see when a move was a genuine theoretical novelty when it was played.
- Live status bar — a persistent bottom bar shows engine state, cloud sync, and game-review progress, so you always know what the app is doing
- Genuine novelty (TN) indicator — the eval graph and notation mark where a game left known theory, scoped to novelties at 2300+ at the time the game was played
- Faster position search — matching the board against the game database is dramatically quicker on popular openings, and an en-passant case that silently missed matches is fixed
- Leakfinder — "Where you leak" now compares you to players at your own rating, so you can see which mistakes actually cost you ground
- Library — public collections credit their creator and can carry a description, and the command palette gains "Switch to…" for jumping between workspaces
- Freeform panels — maximize a panel to fill the stage or collapse it to its header; Game Search defaults to most-recent games first
June 30, 2026
Richer Scout, clock-aware Leakfinder, deeper Repertoire
Scout now profiles playing style and pawn structures, Leakfinder tracks where your clock drains by move phase, and Repertoire builds trees from real grandmaster practice.
- Scout — a new "Style & tendencies" card summarises castling side, sharpness, and endgame frequency, and a "Predictable as Black" verdict flags opponents whose Black repertoire is narrow enough to prepare for
- Scout pawn structure cards expand to cover symmetrical, closed-centre, and space-control patterns
- Leakfinder — clock data from your online games is bucketed by phase (moves 1–10, 11–20, 21–30, 31+), so time-trouble collapses are tied to where your clock actually drains
- Repertoire — candidate moves now come from the database of 10M+ grandmaster games, with opening names, transposition markers, and coverage tooltips in the tree
- Pallas coach — only flags a tempting move when it can show the refutation, and no longer points out defended pieces as if they were free
- Game Search — filter pills carry category prefixes (colour, theme, opening) for instant scanning, and the exchange-sac filter is live
June 29, 2026
Public collections, smarter coach, Scout polish
Share game collections publicly, build a repertoire from any player's games, and get a sharper Pallas coach.
- Public collections — toggle any Library collection to Public so others can browse and fork it; browse collections the community has shared from the Library tab
- Build a repertoire from a player's games — pick any player in your database and Repertoire distils their most-played lines into a drillable tree
- Smarter Pallas coach — deeper strategic assessment, more accurate attack and threat reading, and tighter self-checking so the coach only says things it can stand behind
- Scout layout polish — controls move to the left column so the board rises above the fold on wide screens; a colour filter lets you scope the report to just your White or Black games
- "Only my games" import filter is now opt-in per import — it previously applied globally and could hide games you meant to see
- Game Search "Try" examples always return real results, and the player game total next to search results now reflects the full database count
June 23, 2026
A sharper coach, easier search
The Pallas coach gets more trustworthy and more natural, and Game Search gets faster to drive.
- Pallas now narrates only verified facts — every claim is checked against the real position and the moves actually played, and a wrong premise gets corrected rather than ignored
- A more natural coaching voice — cleaner, less templated answers that look ahead at likely replies and recommend the most practical choice among equal engine lines
- Game Search is easier to drive — a unified results toolbar, smarter "did you mean" typo correction, and broader opening and player-name recognition
- Search by endgame type — rook, pawn, queen, knight, opposite-coloured-bishop and a dozen more. "Rook endgame" means a true rook-and-pawn ending, and a game matches every ending it passes through
- Scout prepares opponents consistently across your database, online accounts, and PGN, with recommendations you can steer using your own moves
- More reliable engine and cloud sync — lighter memory use with auto-recovery, settings that persist, and no more duplicate collections on upload
- Edit lines faster — delete any move with a right-click, and read sub-variations inline in the notation
June 16, 2026
Search from the board, and clearer guidance
Send any board position straight to the database, with friendlier in-app help on the deeper tools.
- Search this position — the Position menu and a new “Use board position” button send the board's current position straight to Game Search, transpositions included
- Your position now shows as a tidy chip in the search bar instead of a raw FEN string
- New dismissable tips on the more advanced panels (Scout, Repertoire, and more) — what each does and how to drive it
- Ask the Pallas AI coach a free question from your very first session
June 15, 2026
Faster imports and a profile refresh
Import large libraries faster, with a refreshed profile and Share.
- Profile page refresh with a clear Plan card; Share opens reliably after upload or local→cloud sync
- Much faster local PGN imports — large libraries open immediately without a loading delay
- Smoother TWIC archive decoding and a guided PGN path for migrations from desktop databases
- Open any library row in Game Search in one click; Scout respects free-tier limits
June 14, 2026
Founding member billing
Updated founding-member billing and checkout on /pricing.
- Updated founding-member billing — checkout and account upgrades use the new flow on /pricing
- Faster player name search with ranked autocomplete across the game database
- More dependable cloud uploads and collection sync when libraries are large
June 13, 2026
Coach & scout upgrades
Opponent prep and the Pallas coach get more accurate and more reliable.
- The Pallas coach now self-checks its answers — tactical and time-pressure claims are validated so you only see things the coach can stand behind
- Friendlier, clearer coach messages when something can't be answered
- Scout prepares opponents by rating band and recent form, so you see how they play now — not years ago
- More reliable opponent import from an online username
- New player profile cards, plus an in-app What's new panel so updates show up where you work
June 11, 2026
New: Leakfinder
A new tool that finds the mistakes you keep repeating — plus faster opening prep.
- Leakfinder scans your own games and surfaces the patterns you get wrong most often
- Scope and filter the report so you can drill the leaks that actually matter to you
- Opening Analysis reworked into a focused repertoire-prep lens that runs automatically as you browse
- Year-by-year stats show how a line has trended over time
- New live tournament broadcasts panel to follow top events as they happen
June 9, 2026
Backups, mobile & training
Keep your data safe, prep on any device, and get sharper training positions.
- Local backup and restore — export your collections and bring them back anytime
- A mobile workstation so you can prep on your phone or tablet
- Clearer usage limits across the free and Pro tiers
- Broad reliability and import hardening across the app
June 6, 2026
Faster imports & ChessBase migration
A rebuilt PGN import pipeline and a guided path for players moving over from ChessBase.
- Rebuilt PGN parser — much faster imports, with comments, variations, and symbols (NAGs) preserved
- Variation-aware merge of imported games into your repertoire
- Background cloud import with clearer progress while large collections load
- New “Coming from ChessBase” guide: concept map, PGN export steps, and what imports keep
- Clearer game sources in the Game Browser and safer handling of local data
June 3, 2026
Privacy, Terms & Contact
Full legal and contact pages replacing the earlier placeholders.
- A substantive Privacy Policy explaining local-first storage and how your data is handled
- Full Terms of Use including subscriptions, cancellation, and acceptable use
- New Contact and Legal hub pages, plus a Credits & licenses page
May 28, 2026
Launch prep
Core workstation, marketing pages, billing, and trust surfaces.
- Freeform workbench with opening prep, live viewing, scout, and repertoire layouts
- FSRS repertoire training and local-first PGN / FEN collections
- Pro tier groundwork: expanded cloud storage
- Marketing pages at /features and /pricing
- Help, changelog, and status pages for support and transparency
