Engine Updates

Update: Awesome 1.73
- corrects some obscure bugs in 1.72 and is slightly stronger.
- opening book is better.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Echess/awesome.html

Update: Chesley The Chess Engine 173
source only, no builds of this version yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/ (project home)

Update: Kenny Dail Mac builds
Update: Arasan 11.4
New: Gray Matter 1534
http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/

Info Only: Down chess websites
Pierre

Chess News

Update: ChessGUI 0.162b
ChessGUI4Stick also updated
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Update: Perfect 2009 book
Neutral opening book by Sedat Canbaz
- Based on 75803 High-Quality GrandMaster Games (average 2600 ELO)
- Perfect 2009 book's learning functions are disabled
- Books's depth is up to 12 moves
- Manually hand-tuned and carefully optimised the strongest lines
- Perfect 2009 is tested (before final release)
http://www.sedatchess.com/perfect2009.html

Info Only: SCID
another 2 commits to the source code today (commits = 459)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes/Updates for the past week will be posted tomorrow