Engine Updates

Update: Son Of Mainsworthy 2.9.6
Author's announcement said 0.4, but the program prints out "2.9.6"
The name of the zip file does not change as the version numbers change
http://www.geocities.com/markjamestop/mypersonalpage.html (homepage)
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html (Leo)

Info Only: Down engine websites
ColChess down for 16 days (webpage removed)
Dann Corbit site down for 12 days
Matacz site down for 1 day

Chess News

Update: ChessGUI 0.157
ChessGUI4Stick also updated
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

New: Chess Hero 1.0
originally released Jan 18, 2009
"A free chess training program" using WB or UCI engines
1. You supply a set of PGN files and a chess engine.
2. The program picks random positions from the PGN files and challenges you to guess the best move computed by the chess engine.
3. After every attempt you are given a penalty, i.e., the difference in score between your move and the best move.
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

New: Bit functions for Delphi/Pascal
source code by Andreas Herrmann
http://sanher.de/index.htm?lang=eng&url=bitfuncs