Engine Updates

ChessKISS 1.7 (WB)
Pascal (Delphi) source; Win32/64
- many games values are now defined in the INI (before they were all constants)
- after many many games I've redefined many games values, that looks like it has improved the ELO...
http://meandmybits.blogspot.com/

DiscoCheck 3.7 (UCI)
C source; Win64, Linux64
- search: do not research full window at reduced depth, when the zero-window reduced search did not fail low at non PV nodes (waste of time)
- search: display mate scores correctly
- eval: trapped knight and bishop
- eval: rook trapped by uncastled king penalty
- uci: better time usage
- uci: TimeBuffer option introduced
- uci: AutoClearHash option introduced
- bugfixes and code cleanup as usual
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DoubleCheck.html (Leo page)

Mainsworthy 122 (WB)
C++ source; Win32
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html (Leo page)

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 399 days
DeepDuke homepage down for 28 days (SourceForge project page is okay)
GreKo homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Mscp homepage down for 2 days
Smash homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- EXchess: corrected version designation (removed 'JA')
- Fritz: added another link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Cute Chess-CLI: added another link
- WinBoard/XBoard: added another link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Nothing new today

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org