Engine Updates

Update: Chronos 1.9.6
- Evaluation: Material evaluation cleanup.
- Evaluation: Piece-evaluation cleanup and optimized (nps slightly increased).
- Evaluation: Endgame evaluation improved, supporting several common endgames:
- Insufficient material draws: kk, knk, kkn, kbk, kkb, knnk, kknn (improved from version 1.9.5)
- Pawn endgames: kpk, kkp (also supported for non rook-pawns).
- Majors-drawish endgames: krkr, kqkq
- Bad-bishop endgames (A bishop for each side, opposing, and pawns semi balanced)
- Evaluation: Fixed a minor bug in unstoppble passed pawns.
- Evaluation: Pawn shelter slightly improved (infimus ELO gain!).
- Whole code refacoring (some .cpp and .h files were completely excluded).
- Command line parameters: Transposition, material and pawn hash tables sizes can be adjusted.
http://sites.google.com/site/chronosce/

Update: Exchess 5.02 beta JA
new Jim Ablett x64/win32 builds
- EGTB support re-enabled. (was disabled by author in 5.01 beta)
- EGTB usage in 64-bit fixed.
- Re-compiled both x64 & win32 exes.
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html (Jim's page)
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzgiy4djjof (direct download)

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Chess News

Update: Chess Hero 1.1
produces test positions from PGN files
- included Glaurung as the default chess engine.
- new "Reset Penalties" command
- side-to-move can now be a player name
- support for non-ascii file paths
- minor graphic tweaks
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

Wiki Changes

FEN Diagram Example
fixed up FEN display on the main wiki site to make it just like here on the Forum

Native Engine List
lots of new engines and links

Variants Engine List
many, many new engines added

GUI Protocol List
Peshk@ training software link added to Aquarium GUI comments

Engine GUI List
Peshk@ training software link added to Aquarium GUI comments

Myrddin Annotated Games
John Merlino is improving this page with chess diagrams and better descriptions

Engine Updates

New: Onno 1.0
new commercial UCI engine by Onno Garms
"Onno's Elo rating is between 2860 and 2900"
http://www.onnochess.com/index.html