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Engine Updates

Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 262 (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 (259)
- Break out the case of searching the root into new function root_search (259)
- Implement mate distance pruning (259)
- Implement delta pruning (259)
- Compute pawn_counts and piece_counts incrementally rather than in Eval::Score (260)
- Fix bug in En Passant handling introduced in previous revision (261)
- Add assertion and debug output in in_check (262)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Update: Dirty ACCA 3 (WB)
- version of Dirty (EveAnn+Buzz) that played in the 2009 Third Annual World Computer Rapid Chess Championships
- new search, modified, debugged and tested by Fonzy Bluemers
- eval DLL is slightly modified
- tourney book by Christopher Conkie
http://www.dirtychess.com/

Update: Scorpio 2.2 (WB)
with C++ source code
- Improved parallel search.
- Separate eval cache and pawn cache for each thread. And now 4 entries are probed in TT instead of 2
- Modified pondering strategy (still needs some work..)
- Aggressive lazy evaluation (70% ! ). I don't do full evals during null moves -- This seems to help survival against fast searchers
- A few eval changes here and there
- Search with 0.75 * UNITDEPTH increment
- Book generation tool for Salvo
- New book lines by salvo for ACCA
- And last but not least, I have switched to a new testing methodology I mentioned above,
suggested by guys at Olivier's broadcast. Which reminds me that I am so bored without
the broadcasts nowadays. Wish you well Olivier!
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Scorpio.html (Leo)
http://dshawul.googlepages.com/home (homepage)

Info Only: Slibo
another 3 commits to the source code (commits = 131)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slibo

Info Only: Down chess websites
Averno site down for 22 days
Flux site down today
Pierre site down for 55 days
Posix ports & Polyglot pages (by Michel Van den Bergh) down today
Spin Chess (unreleased) site down today
Blitzer site back up
Delphil site (down for 10 days) back up!

Chess News

No updates found

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
- added Chest as a secondary tool (mate-solver)
- added Popeye as a secondary tool (mate-solver)

Mobile Chess List
- added Hiarcs for iPhone/iTouch

Bonus Notification

Update: 7-Zip 9.06 beta
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