Update Information: August 11, 2009

Security Warning: WildCat site
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as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences."

What happened when Google visited this site?

"Of the 5 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s)
resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user
consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-07-31, and the
last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-31."

Engine Updates

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 256
no build for this version yet
latest builds: 251(Win32), 241(Mac)
- Implement material vs. win probability table generation. (252)
- Implement automatic piece square table generation. (252)
- CMD_GENMSTATS now takes one argument. (253)
- Fix mingw32 error messages. (254)
- Many fixes for Windows, including asynch IO and wrong timer code. (255)
- Fix a problem with repititions table management required to run in demo mode under Arena. (255)
- Fix major problem in triple repetition detection. (256)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Info Only: Plisk 0.1.1
- new builds for Linux and Mac
http://sites.google.com/site/pliskchess/

Update: Toledo Nanochess Aug/11/2009
- Toledo Nanochess now is twelve characters smaller and 50% faster.
- The Winboard version now allows time control, so its strength is slightly better.
http://nanochess.110mb.com/index.html

Info Only: Down chess websites
Averno site down for 16 days
Delphil site down for 4 days (404 error message)
MFChess site down for 4 days
Pierre site down for 49 days
Chess GUI 110mb site back up
Matacz 110mb site back up
MiniMardi site back up

Chess News

Update: Polyglot 1.4.36b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- New WbWorkAround for silly bug in WB. Depth <=1 clears the engine output window. (1.4.35b)
- Bugfix: option = 0/1 was translated incorrectly. (1.4.36b)
- EOF received from the engine should now be logged correctly (i.e. after the buffer is empty) (1.4.36b)
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Wiki Changes

Engine GUI List
- added ZChess version "QChess"

Bonus Notification
- 7-Zip 9.05 alpha
http://www.7-zip.org