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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Friday, November 04, 2011, 19:35:</em></p><p><p>There have been so many updates over the past 2 weeks that they won't all fit onto a single page. Here are the pure chess-related updates</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Engine Updates</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Arabian Knight 1.51 (WB)</span></strong><br />
Java source; own GUI; mp<br />
<a href="http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html">http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html</a> (Leo site)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">Arabian Knight 1.51 JA (WB)</span></strong><br />
Win 32/64; Java source; mp<br />
<a href="http://jim-ablett.co.de/">http://jim-ablett.co.de/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">BagaturChess 1.2a (UCI)</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">BagaturChess 1.2b (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Java source; Win32/64; mp<br />
1.2a:<br />
- 50 ELO stronger than version 1.2. Achieved by tuning of search algorithm<br />
- min threads count of SMP version are set to 2. Reported by Olivier Deville during OpenWar 9th Edition test games<br />
- default process priority is set to 'normal'<br />
- technical: Refactoring of configuration API; Impl code<br />
1.2b:<br />
- bugfix: read and use the option set for threads count of SMP version<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Bearded Neural 44.1 (WB)</span></strong><br />
Win32<br />
- added book learning<br />
<a href="http://brodacz100.republika.pl/download.html">http://brodacz100.republika.pl/download.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Butterfly 0.3.3 Win64 (WB)</span></strong><br />
C++ source; Win32/64, perft with source also available<br />
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/butterfly-chess-engine/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/butterfly-chess-engine/downloads/list</a> (new homepage)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">Cheng3 1.05 JA (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win 32/64<br />
<a href="http://jim-ablett.co.de/">http://jim-ablett.co.de/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess One 4.x, build Nov 4 2011 (WB)</span></strong><br />
Win32, Linux32; own GUI (echoboard GUI, actually)<br />
<a href="http://serg-nifont.narod.ru/chess_4_x.html">http://serg-nifont.narod.ru/chess_4_x.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chiron 1.1 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
commercial, FRC, Win32/64<br />
<a href="http://www.chironchess.com/">http://www.chironchess.com/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">CuckooChess 1.12 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Java source; Android; own GUI; uses Cuckoo hashing<br />
- &quot;+61 Elo&quot;<br />
<a href="http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/javachess/index.html">http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/javachess/index.html</a> (homepage)<br />
<a href="http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/javachess/ChangeLog.txt">http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/javachess/ChangeLog.txt</a> (changes)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">CuckooChess 1.12 JA (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Java source; Win 32/64<br />
<a href="http://jim-ablett.co.de/">http://jim-ablett.co.de/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">DoubleCheck 2.0 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
C source; Win64, Linux64<br />
&quot;it scored +110 elo against [previous] version&quot;<br />
- improved evaluation:<br />
--- it understands unstoppable passed pawns when the opponent has no pieces<br />
--- passed pawns are incentivised, especially connected passed pawns, and especially as there are few pieces on the board and the passed pawns are advanced<br />
--- understands doubled, isolated, chained, backward pawns<br />
- ability to handle fixed depth search, fixed number of nodes, or infinite search<br />
- bug fixed on the time allocation, which could cause DoubleCheck to lose on time. Now it should never lose on time, provided the UCI interface is not lagging<br />
<a href="http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DoubleCheck.html">http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DoubleCheck.html</a> (Leo page)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">EnginMax 5.20 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64<br />
- some more bugs fixed, changes in search, sorting moves, futility pruning<br />
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/mychessengines/files">http://sites.google.com/site/mychessengines/files</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Francesca MAD 0.19</span></strong><br />
Win32; hash fixed in size: 24MB(diet), 128MB(standard), or 1GB(lardy)<br />
&quot;an improvement of around 30 Elo&quot;<br />
- use a score &quot;scaling&quot; feature between the middle and endgame<br />
- 'diet' version resurrected<br />
<a href="http://www.zen55564.zen.co.uk/download.htm">http://www.zen55564.zen.co.uk/download.htm</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Frenzee 3.5.19 (WB/UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64; SMP, Linux; FRC<br />
NOTE: homepage requires installation of non-standards-compliant Microsoft<br />
Silverlight software; Microsoft now uses HTML5 + JavaScript instead of the<br />
old, deprecated Silverlight product<br />
<a href="http://www.computerskak.dk/">http://www.computerskak.dk/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Ivanhoe 999947d (UCI)</span></strong><br />
C source; Win32/64; Ippolit derivative<br />
- this is a 'PeterPan' build<br />
<a href="http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/Ivanhoe+B47d.rar">http://ippolit.wikispaces.com/Ivanhoe+B47d.rar</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Komodo 3.0 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac; own GUI<br />
- added own GUI (Tarrasch Chess GUI, actually)<br />
<a href="http://komodochess.com/">http://komodochess.com/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">ProDeo 1.7 (WB)</span></strong><br />
Win32<br />
&quot;should give the Benjamin [latest] version of ProDeo a good elo jump&quot;<br />
&quot;Make sure you get the 1.71 personalities&quot;<br />
- tuning<br />
- activating various settings already present in previous versions<br />
- a more modern search approach collected in several personalities<br />
<a href="http://www.top-5000.nl/prodeo17.htm">http://www.top-5000.nl/prodeo17.htm</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Quazar 0.3 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64<br />
- website estimated Elo increased by 200 points<br />
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/chessquazar">https://sites.google.com/site/chessquazar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm">http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm</a> (alternate download site)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Sjaak r263 (WB)</span></strong><br />
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac32/64; variants<br />
<a href="http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html">http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Strelka 5.1 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64<br />
<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fstrelkachess.narod.ru%2FStrelka5.html">http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fstrelkachess.narod.ru%2FStre...</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm">http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm</a> (alternate download site)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Supra 6.1 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32<br />
<a href="http://suprachesssystem.com/">http://suprachesssystem.com/</a> (English)<br />
<a href="http://www.suprachesssytem.com/">http://www.suprachesssytem.com/</a> (Portugese)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Tornado 4.82 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
FRC; multi-pv; mp, Win32/64; limit strength <br />
- after allocation of hash more then 2 GB crashed, this is fixed now and it can use more hash in 64 bit, tested with 4 GByte hash on my hardware<br />
- material hash table added, a slightly improvement in eval for material count<br />
- different bugs fixed, especially the time bug for x moves in y min<br />
- slightly speed improved with PGO compilation<br />
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/mychessengines/">http://sites.google.com/site/mychessengines/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Zeta Dva 0.204 (WB)</span></strong><br />
C source; own GUI; Linux64; supports Polyglot books<br />
&quot;less nps, more ply, better play&quot;<br />
- added Futility Pruning<br />
- added Razoring<br />
- mod in LateMoveReductions, more agressive<br />
- mod in time control, clock based<br />
- fix in Evaluation for blocked Pawns<br />
- fix in TT-Move<br />
- fix in Matescores/KRk-Endgame<br />
<a href="https://github.com/smatovic/zeta_dva">https://github.com/smatovic/zeta_dva</a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/smatovic/zeta_dva/tree/zeta_dva_0204/bin">https://github.com/smatovic/zeta_dva/tree/zeta_dva_0204/bin</a> (Linux64 direct link)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">Zeta Dva 0.204 JA (WB)</span></strong><br />
C source; own GUI; Win32/64, Linux32/64; supports Polyglot books<br />
<a href="http://jim-ablett.co.de/">http://jim-ablett.co.de/</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Chess News</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess Engine Logos 1.76</span></strong><br />
Jim Ablett Logo Collection<br />
<a href="http://jim-ablett.co.de/">http://jim-ablett.co.de/</a> (scroll to bottom)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Bihasa_2.0 (WB)</span></strong><br />
variant engine for playing Capablanca and Gothic Chess on a 10x8 board size<br />
by Deuterium author Ferdinand Mosca<br />
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/downloads-1">http://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/downloads-1</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess Engines for Android</span></strong><br />
- GreKo 8.2<br />
<a href="http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html">http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess for Android 3.0.2 (WB/UCI)</span></strong><br />
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android phone<br />
- enhances XBoard/WinBoard support (infinite analysis, resign feature, older idioms used by various engines)<br />
<a href="http://aartbik.blogspot.com/">http://aartbik.blogspot.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html">http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">CLOP page</span></strong><br />
(for engine programmers only!)<br />
CLOP helps tune parameter values<br />
- CLOP page updated with pdf slides<br />
<a href="http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/">http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">JavaPairing 2.2</span></strong><br />
open source cross-platform chess pairings manager for Swiss events<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapairing/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapairing/</a> (project page)<br />
<a href="http://javapairing.sourceforge.net/">http://javapairing.sourceforge.net/</a> (homepage)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Lantern Chess 4.54 (WB/UCI)</span></strong><br />
Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB &amp; UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac<br />
<a href="http://www.lanternchess.com/">http://www.lanternchess.com/</a> (homepage)<br />
<a href="http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html">http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html</a> (help)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Olivier Deville's PGN collection</span></strong><br />
also a Polyglot book based on the 46,999 PGN games<br />
&quot;Games from 2001 to 2011&quot;<br />
- minimum Elo = 2530<br />
- only long time control games<br />
- no annotations<br />
- no computer games<br />
- no games under 20 moves<br />
<a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html">http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Penguin 7.1</span></strong><br />
PGN Editor for Chess and limited functionality UCI interface<br />
&quot;Penguin can interface with UCI engines and suggest best moves for game positions&quot;<br />
<a href="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dashstofsk/penguin.html">http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dashstofsk/penguin.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Norm Pollock site</span></strong><br />
PGN &amp; EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases<br />
- EPD program update: merged epd<br />
- EPD program update: merged pvOpcode into bmOpcode<br />
- EPD program update: epdTrim, bmOpcode<br />
- EPD program removal: cnOpcode, epd<br />
<a href="http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html">http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Xboard 4.5.3 Installer for Mac</span></strong><br />
new update compiled by 'Darklord42'<br />
<a href="http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=50428">http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&amp;t=50428</a> (forum post)<br />
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?9cg7lf31u58b5vo">http://www.mediafire.com/?9cg7lf31u58b5vo</a> (direct link)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Down/Problem Chess Websites</strong></span> <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /></p>
<p>Asterisk homepage down today<br />
Damas homepage down for 40 days (&quot;Free Web Hosting Discontinued&quot;)<br />
Dann Corbit homepage down for 130 days<br />
Safrad homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)<br />
Smash homepage down today (website configuration problem)<br />
Vicki homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)<br />
Waxman homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)<br />
<strong><span style="color:#555;">Ildtiadar homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.</span></strong> <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Wiki Changes</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess Engine List</span></strong><br />
- removed Ildtiadar<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">FACE Tournament</span></strong><br />
- Gerhard continues to update his tournament site with recent results<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">GUI Protocol List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- added Java Chess Protocol Interface<br />
- added sPYderchess<br />
- Winboard 4.27: updated comments<br />
- Winboard: added more links<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Links</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- updated two Jim Ablett links<br />
- added ELOcalc<br />
- added Chess Tournament Management<br />
- added Php Chess Tournament Manager<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Macintosh Engine List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- added Ajedrez<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Mobile Chess List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- added Dark Knight for Android<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- added PGN-Extract GUI Interface<br />
- added Chess Diagram Editor<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Private Engine List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- removed Deep Noob, it has not been active for a long time<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Retreated Engine List</span></strong><br />
- added Ildtiadar<br />
<a href="http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#retreated_engine_list">http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#retreated_engine_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Source Code Only List</span></strong><br />
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner<br />
- removed Deep Noob<br />
<a href="http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#source_code_only_list">http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list#source_code_only_list</a></p>
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