Engine Updates

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 237
no build for this version yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Update: Gray Matter 1571
- a little better check analysis
- some mild heuristic modifications
source code only update
most recent exe files: 1557 (x64) and 1553 (Win32)
http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/

Update: SCP 2.02
SCP == Stanback Chess Program, also known as GNUChess 2.02
new Jim Ablett feature additions:
- Made Editboard() compliant with winboard edit mode so
v2.02 now play ok from different start postions
- Added winboard analysis mode. Can now analyze positions
- Source code now compiles on MSVC as well as Mingw & Cygwin
- Profile guided optimized 32 bit Msvc compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html - Jim Ablett
http://john.stanback.net/ - John Stanback homepage (no update)

Info Only: Down chess websites
LarsenVB site down today
Pierre site down for 32 days
Sinobyl site down today
BabyChess: all web content reinstated

Nesik site back up after being down for 29 days!
http://nesik.republika.pl/index.html

Chess News

Update: Michel Van den Bergh's Polyglot 1.4b26
... Linux and Window builds
summary:
- Contraction of version number
- Log if SetProcessAffinityMask is not available (suggested by E.M.)
- pipe.cpp : Make PipeStruct a proper class with private/public members
- Check for EOF in GUI input
- pipe.cpp : delay reporting EOF until buffer is empty
- Messages from the Engine to PG were not logged in the windows version
changed files:
- ChangeLog
- manpage.txt
- polyglot_dev.exe 25-Jul-2009 11:03 103K
new builds:
- polyglot-1.4b26-1.i386.rpm 25-Jul-2009 11:03 102K
- polyglot-1.4b26.tar.gz 25-Jul-2009 11:01 244K
- polyglot_1.4b26_i386.deb 25-Jul-2009 11:02 105K
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Update: SCID 4.0 beta 1
builds for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid