Beta version expires 2/2013



Installation:
- install dragon v2.4
- download setup dragon-3.0beta.exe
- install in the same the directory you installed dragon v2.4

changes:
update 12-1-2008: added new french translations + changed expiration date to 2010

#Massively improved game analyses: 
Dragon spends more time on interresting positions, less on obvious moves 
Analyses is created as game variant 
Continuation is done on full search depth 
Evaluation at end of game 
Quick game analyses option: checks for blunders and gives quickly produces score graph 
Automatic threshold: lower the comment threshold at longer thinking times 

#General changes: 
Fixed bug when windows went into screensaver 
Form to quickly enter a new game, or copy & paste a game from a website or other document 
Game moves are now implemented as a tree, allowing for variants, and variants of variants, ad infinitum 
Graph displaying score during the game 
Option form split in 3 seperate tabs 
Options to change some of dragon's colors. 

#Engine improvements 
Dragon can now utilise multi-core processors. Speedup is still modest though. Measured as time to reach 
  a certain level of play, dragon is 1.55 times faster on dual core, and 1.99 times on a quad-core. Set
  up the number of processors you want dragon to use in the options. 
Endgame databases are now accessed directly from disk if there are not available in memory 
Improved database compression. All 6 piece endings now fit on a single CD 
About 10% speed improvement 
Improved move ordering 
Improved identication of drawn endgames 

#Bugfixes: 
Lastgame.pdn can't be overwritten anymore by an empty game 
Save as applet problem fixed 
Infinite analyses did not work when still in opening book 
Position analyses sometimes produced invalid continuations on lower depths