Update Information: June 30, 2009 (Updates)
Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 195
no build for this version yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/
Info Only: Crafty
added Win32s and Win64s builds
"The Win32s and Win64s builds are the same as the previous builds except they are compiled with the /DSKILL option in the makefile."
http://www.webkikr.com/
Update: Glass 1.3
- Nalimov Endgame Tablebase Support (3-6 men)
- Nullmove tuning
- No separate settings anymore for the different types of transposition tables
- Improved Time management (time control of 10s / game tested successfully)
- "analyze" command added to analyze epd files
- pawn storm code and minor eval tweaks
- opening book tweaks
http://www.koziol.home.pl/marittima/glass/index.htm
Update: Gray Matter 1538
- faster, stronger. (x64)
- Adding command line depth setting to performance tests
x64 version only
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/
Update: RBrChess 2.15
version 2.14 was buggy and is removed
Win32 version only
http://home.hetnet.nl/~rogerbroertjes/
Update: Tornado 3.07
- razoring and futility margins changed
- changes in quiesce search
- in nullmove pruning was a bug with mate threat that not extended later in search extensions, this fixed
- futility pruning in smp search added too
http://www.tornadochess.de/
Info Only: Down chess websites
Ayito site down for 2 days
Nesik site down for 5 days
Pierre site down for 7 days
Info Only: WinBoard/XBoard
"XBoard and WinBoard information has moved"
Tim Mann has moved the 'official' WinBoard/XBoard download and support pages to a new website
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
Wiki Changes
Thanks to Norbert Raimund Leisner who makes many of these wiki changes!
Play Chess Online List
added Mobi, Magnus Super Online Chess, MobileThinkerBoard, Odesys, PhoneChess, PocketGrandmaster, Yafi, and YinYang Chess
improved Zillions of Games comment
GUI Protocol List
improved comments for EBoard, WinBoard, and Winboard_X
Mobile Chess List
removed obsolete PhoneChess
Variants Engine List
added HoiChess (XiangQi)
Invisible Technical Improvements
improved the website change detection software to more accurately identify real changes