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Engine Updates

New: Rocinante 1.01 (UCI)
Win 32 with C++ source by Antonio Torrecillas
http://www.escacsrubi.com/simplex/rocinante_1_0.zip (direct download)

Info Only: Schola 1.1.0 (WB)
- 64-bit build by Dann Corbit
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/schola.exe.bz2 (direct download)

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 257
There is a Jim Ablett build available for this version!
latest builds: 257(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)
- Minor cleanup. (257)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Update: Jim Ablett Win builds
- Chesley 257 (Win 32 and x64)
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Info Only: Down chess websites
Averno site down for 17 days
Delphil site down for 5 days (404 error message)
MFChess site down for 5 days
Pierre site down for 50 days
Tarrasch Toy Engine site down today
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
NOTE: Yesterday's version had the same number, you will need to re-download it.
The following are the changes from yesterday's version
- Default node count is 1.
- Bugfix: Nasty buffer overflow in the macro CONSTRUCT_ARG_STRING.
- Bugfix: pipex_writeln (win32) was logging at the wrong spot.
- Log board when an illegal move is received.
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Wiki Changes

Engine GUI List
- added Lokasoft engines Gandalf and Ktulu
- noted that QChess is now known as OBender
- removed ZChess (a former version of QChess)