Chess Tutor Step 1

What works

With the right libraries and fonts installed (see HOWTO below), everything works perfectly. Tested many lessons and games against the computer.

What does not

The following problems occur only when not using the necessary libraries and fonts:
- Crashes when used with Wine's Mono instead of .NET.
- Crashes when native MS Windows GDI+ is installed, but MS core fonts are not.
- Graphics not clean and texts messy when used with Wine's built-in gdiplus library instead of native MS Windows GDI+ library.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Some individual lessons not tested yet, but I will try to update this entry if I meet any trouble later.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Required:

• MS .NET (or Mono, see below): Used MS .NET 2.0 SP2 (winetricks: dotnet20sp2), though other versions might also work.
  Update 2017-02-07: User olekike reported problems with .NET 2.0 SP2 (frequent crashes during startup) and .NET versions 4.5 and 4.6 (unable to install). .NET versions 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 worked without problems.
  Update 2020-04-28: Felipe Windmoller reported that Mono 5.0.0 can be used instead of .NET. With Mono, the words of the menu may look truncated, but the menu bar is not essential to the game. With .NET 3.5 (dotnet35) in combination with the two recommends below everything worked perfectly.

Recommended:

• MS Windows GDI+: Improves graphics (winetricks: gdiplus and/or gdiplus_winxp).
• MS fonts: MS Arial, Courier and Times (winetricks: corefonts).

Note: If you use the MS Windows (native) GDI+ instead of Wine's own built-in library, the MS fonts become a requirement.