Engine Updates

New: PsycoChess 0.1
a 5-year old program discovered by Norbert Raimund Leisner
WB engine written in Java by Massimo Zizi, Paolo and Stefano Mainardi from Italy
Source code only, it needs a Jim Ablett build!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psycochess

New: Tarrasch Toy Engine
Discovered by Norbert Raimund Leisner
A new UCI engine by Bill Forster
The engine is part of the Tarrasch GUI package and cannot be downloaded separately
http://www.triplehappy.com/

Update: Alex 1.91
"attempt to fix a xboard protocol problem reported by Olivier Deville. Trim the code at the same time."
http://home.comcast.net/~blais_normand/

Update: Frittle
new Jim Ablett build
http://www.axifile.com/?9079512 (direct download)

Info Only: Down engine websites
Natwarlal down for 7 days
Nejmet: down for 12 days
TRex: down for 12 days
The last 2 are hosted by lycos.fr, which is down for the same amount of time

Tim Mann's page is back up!

Chess News

Update: Cutechess-cli 0.1.6
- Complete games are not played from opening books. It's still a good idea to limit book depth with the -bookdepth option if you use a really deep book (or PGN file as a book).
- If an engine becomes unresponsive (doesn't reply to the "ping" or "isready" command), it's terminated.
- If an engine doesn't quit after the "quit" command, it's terminated forcefully.
- Fix a serious race condition on Windows. If you've gotten "engine failed to respond to ping" warnings, timeouts, etc. it was likely because of this bug.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-win32.zip (Windows 32-bit)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-linux64.tar.gz (Linux 64-bit)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-osx.zip (Mac)

Update: Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
"Changes to rateList, summary and readme.txt"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
added FreeChess and Frenzee

Private Engine List
added RedQueen
Demon renamed to Crimson
changed link for EdlChess
added link for Zarkov

GUI Protocol List
added Tarrasch Chess GUI