Engine Updates

Info Only: Crimson, Toga Toy, Cyclops, Alderon
All of these engines are now retreated

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 202
no build for this version yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Update: Gray Matter rev. 1547
Latest exe is x64 build of version 1544
- searches deeper for interesting positions (captures, checks, etc.) Much better scoring (1540)
- found a few more things to optimize. seems to be much faster again (1541)
- A few more performance mods. Also, some other changes which don't seem to help much (1542)
- found another major performance mod (1543)
- c++-ified lots of stuff, inlined more, just a bit faster/str... (1544)
- a smaller and probably better opening book
- fixing gnu compiler errors (1545)
- making things build on Linux with gnu compiler (1546)
- removed a magnificient hack in favor of a simple approximation of the same (1547)
http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/

Update: Stockfish 1.4
http://www.mediafire.com/?dxnggmjf2nj (source)
Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/10 pgo builds
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html (Jim Ablett)

Update: Sungorus 1.1
- Removed mg/eg pst interpolation
- Added passed pawn scoring
- Added check extension
- Added a transposition table
- Added hash move in move ordering
- Added killer moves in move ordering
- Added repetition detection
- Added null move
Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/10 pgo builds
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html (Jim Ablett)
all-in-one (Linux, Mac Windows) download
http://sites.google.com/site/sungorus/

New: Toga CMLX 1.4.5e
a new Toga/Fruit derivative by Teemu Pudas
-Supports Arena and Shredder FRC
-Linux support (using code from here)
-Some bugfixes after the version I mentioned earlier today in another thread
http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/91/169191/TogaCMLX145e3.zip

Update: Kenny Dail Mac builds
- Chesley the Chess Engine 200
- Gray Matter rev. 1540
- Stockfish 1.4
- Sungorus 1.1
- extragames.pgn.zip (PGN database file)
http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/

Info Only: Down chess websites
Down websites will be reviewed tomorrow

Chess News

New: SuperGM.pgn
Norm Pollock PGN database files
"SuperGM.pgn" contains 21267 games between 115 SuperGrandMasters, in
1 cluster, spanning the years 1862 through 2008. The download has its
own readme file.
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Info Only: SCID
another update to the source code today (patchset 476)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes

Wiki changes will be detailed tomorrow