Display and sounds

This is where Régence becomes your board. The two tabs — Display and Sounds — dress the hours spent over games.

Board themes

The Display tab’s gallery presents themes as real thumbnails: the classic flat tones, and the photographic marquetry boards — walnut, oak, marble, slate — composed square by square like a real board. The combined preview at the bottom shows the theme + pieces duo in situation, updated at every click.

Piece styles

More than twenty-five styles, presented as a gallery — from classic to contemporary (Lichess sets, CC BY-SA 4.0 license). And an open door for collectors: dropping a folder of 12 SVGs into the app’s resources adds a style to the gallery — the exact path is shown in the tab.

Notation

Move notation picks the pieces’ language: French (R/D/T/F/C) or English (K/Q/R/B/N). The setting applies everywhere — move list, engine lines, PDF report.

Appearance and tooltips

Appearance follows the system or forces a mode; Show tooltips on hover can be switched off “for a calmer interface once you know the app” — the help bubbles disappear, the shortcuts stay.

Sounds

The Sounds tab sets the ambience: activation, volume, and the sound pack — Synthesized (generated on the fly, default) or Wood (recorded move and capture sounds, public domain CC0).

For the demanding: personal .wav/.mp3 files dropped in the indicated folder (named move, capture, check, checkmate, gameStart, win, loss, draw, illegal) take priority over the pack.