Update Information: August 16, 2009 (Updates)
Security Warning: WildCat site
Firefox message: "This web site at igorkorshunov.narod.ru has been reported
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."
Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 259 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: 258(Win32), 241(Mac)
- Use exceptions rather than manually unwinding the stack when time is elapsed
- Break out the case of searching the root into new function root_search
- Implement mate distance pruning
- Implement delta pruning
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/
Update: Daydreamer 1.01 (UCI)
source code update only, no build yet
- added new move generation to qsearch--prospective
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/tree/master/
New: Protector 1.2.7 (UCI)
Toga/Fruit derivative by Raimund Heid with C source code
"it's kinda Bitboard-based TogaII with many small improvements"
Win64 & Linux64 builds included in download, no 32-bit builds
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/
Info Only: Down chess websites
Averno site down for 21 days
Blitzer site down today
Delphil site down for 9 days (404 error message)
Pierre site down for 54 days
Flux site back up
Spin Chess site (unreleased engine) back up
My mistake: AICE site was not down the past 3 days,
sourcefiles.org, an alternate download site for AICE, has been down
No updates found
GUI Protocol List
- added CLIM-Chess (WB GUI)
Private Engine List
- added Freccia
- removed goaT (renamed to Toga CMLX and released)
- removed Algebar (renamed to Rocinante and released)
Bonus Notification
- Geany Text Editor updated to version 0.18 http://www.geany.org/