Engine Updates

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 208
no build for this version yet, source code only
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Update: Chronos 1.9.7
- Extensive code cleanup and refactor in evaluation and movegen.
- Evaluation: Some minor but time-consuming eval terms was completely removed.
http://sites.google.com/site/chronosce/Home

Update: Gray Matter 1555
- seemed to have fixed the hash table bug. engine is a bit stronger
source code only update
http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/

Info Only: Down chess websites
Ayito site down for 14 days
Nesik site down for 17 days
Pierre site down for 19 days

Monarch site back up

Chess News

Update: ChessZone Magazine
The July 2009 edition is out
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Update: XBoard 4.4.0 beta 2
bugfix for yesterday's Debian-only package
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard_4.4.0~hgm-2_i386.deb (direct download)