Engine Updates

Info Only: Amundsen v0.80
Jim Ablett build is available
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Info Only: KMTChess
"There is a bug in time management code. Sometimes, the engine doesn't make
its move and forfeits on time. This only happens in medium-long time controls
(like 30' 5'' or similar)."
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7216630

Info Only: Down engine websites
Frank-Walter: down for 12 days
Nejmet: down for 5 days
TRex: down for 5 days
The last 2 are hosted by lycos.fr, which is down

Chess News

Update: Cutechess-cli 0.1.4
lots of bugfixes and improvements
biggest improvement for programmers is Windows support for very fast time control games
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-win32.zip (Windows)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-linux64.tar.gz (Linux64)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-osx.zip (Mac)

Info Only: SCID
another 4 commits to the source code (commits = 416)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes

Native Engine List
added Cool Chess and Mafis Chess
removed some engines that only play variant chess

Variants Engine List
expanded comments explaining which variants each engine can play