Engine Updates

Francesca MAD 0.14 (WB)
Win32; hash fixed in size (MB): 15(diet), 110(standard), or 580(lardy)
"The first update for a few years! A few changes, giving, I hope a boost of about 50 ELO."
- improved late move reductions
- removed the pruning on history scores
- null move is now always R=3
- piece values tweaked
- optimisation to static-exchange-evaluator
- a few eval tweaks, mainly around king safety
http://www.silentshark.co.uk/

Chess News
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Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 43 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
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Brama homepage down for 77 days
Cylone homepage down for 4 days
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Dika homepage down for 78 days
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InmiChess homepage down for 5 days
miniMardi homepage down today
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Mscp homepage down for 7 days
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Numpty homepage closed until further notice (39 days)
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Toga II 2.0SE homepage down for 4 days
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Python 2.7 RC 1
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http://www.python.org/ (homepage)
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