Engine Updates

Info Only: Chesley the Chess Engine
another commit to the source code (commits = 2), no download yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Info Only: GreKo
new Dann Corbit 64-bit build of GreKo 6.5; engine not updated
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/greko65-64bit.exe.bz2 (direct download)

Update: ZCT 0.3.2500
1. SMP probably working.
2. EGBBs removed.
3. New book format (this was a while back, around the 247x times, but after
the last public release 2451).
4. Command line arguments. I did this as a request, but it's pretty cool. It's
just a proxy for normal commands, so you can do anything that you would do on
the command line. Each command starts with --. So you can do "./zct --force
--e4 --display --perft 5 --analyze" or even "./zct --uci --go depth 15". Not
that you'd want to, but I think it's cool.
5. You can specify the path to a configuration file with ./zct --config
ZCT.ini. This was actually the reason for 4.
6. Evaluation parameters given names, and parsing made a bit easier. Look at
ZCT.ini, and it shows every parameter for ZCT's eval in an almost-easy-to-edit
way.
7. Auxiliary name for ZCT can be set with the "setname" command (usually in
the ZCT.ini file, or on the command line). This is for creating personality
names! The names are then sent to your favorite xboard/UCI compatible GUI. So
you can create your very own "ZCTx64MP-0.3.2500-RybkaKiller", or, more
realistically, "ZCTx64MP-0.3.2500234-RybkaVictim"
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html (Jim Ablett - Win 32/64)
http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/ (Kenny Dial - Mac)

Info Only: Down chess websites
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Chess News

New: STS 3.0: Knight Outposts/Centralization/Repositioning
compiled by Swaminathan with verification help from Dann Corbit
* Consists of carefully selected 100 questionairres on Knight OutPosts/Centralization/Repositioning
* All of the questions in this test suite are selected by me and thoroughly
verified by Dann Corbitt. Each question has been analysed by top engines for
hours.
* All the answers carry similar traits:
- (1) A Knight move to take control of the center or posit itself in the center. (Centralization)
- (2) A Knight move to step back and reposition itself to lead the
- different (or better) path. (Repositioning)
- (3) A Knight move to take control of the opponent's weak squares (Outposts)
Recommended time: Anywhere between 10 seconds - 2 minutes for each test.
http://computerchessblogger.googlepages.com/sts (download)

Info Only: SCID
another commit to the source code (commits = 436)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Chess Related Stuff

A good beginner's article about relative strength testing and error margins
written by Matt Gingell
http://apps.sourceforge.net/wordpress/chesley/

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
added Kenny Dial builds for Mac: Amundsen, Arasan, Beowulf, ColChess, Chenard,
Crafty, Cyrano, Danasah, GreKo, Stockfish, Xpdnt, & ZCT

Engine GUI List
added FSharpChess

Myrddin
added 'Testing Results' section with WAC and Undermining test suite results