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<title>Update Information: June 2, 2009</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Wednesday, June 03, 2009, 00:58:</em></p><p><p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list]Engine Updates[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Chesley the Chess Engine</span></strong><br />
another commit to the source code (commits = 2), no download yet<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: GreKo</span></strong><br />
new Dann Corbit 64-bit build of GreKo 6.5; engine not updated<br />
<a href="http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/greko65-64bit.exe.bz2">http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/greko65-64bit.exe.bz2</a> (direct download)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: ZCT 0.3.2500</span></strong><br />
1. SMP probably working.<br />
2. EGBBs removed.<br />
3. New book format (this was a while back, around the 247x times, but after<br />
the last public release 2451).<br />
4. Command line arguments. I did this as a request, but it's pretty cool. It's<br />
just a proxy for normal commands, so you can do anything that you would do on<br />
the command line. Each command starts with --. So you can do &quot;./zct --force<br />
--e4 --display --perft 5 --analyze&quot; or even &quot;./zct --uci --go depth 15&quot;. Not<br />
that you'd want to, but I think it's cool.<br />
5. You can specify the path to a configuration file with ./zct --config<br />
ZCT.ini. This was actually the reason for 4.<br />
6. Evaluation parameters given names, and parsing made a bit easier. Look at<br />
ZCT.ini, and it shows every parameter for ZCT's eval in an almost-easy-to-edit<br />
way.<br />
7. Auxiliary name for ZCT can be set with the &quot;setname&quot; command (usually in<br />
the ZCT.ini file, or on the command line). This is for creating personality<br />
names! The names are then sent to your favorite xboard/UCI compatible GUI. So<br />
you can create your very own &quot;ZCTx64MP-0.3.2500-RybkaKiller&quot;, or, more<br />
realistically, &quot;ZCTx64MP-0.3.2500234-RybkaVictim&quot;<br />
<a href="http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html">http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html</a> (Jim Ablett - Win 32/64)<br />
<a href="http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/">http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/</a> (Kenny Dial - Mac)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Down chess websites</span></strong>  <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /><br />
None! <img src="images/smilies/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list]Chess News[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">New: STS 3.0: Knight Outposts/Centralization/Repositioning</span></strong><br />
compiled by Swaminathan with verification help from Dann Corbit<br />
* Consists of carefully selected 100 questionairres on Knight OutPosts/Centralization/Repositioning<br />
* All of the questions in this test suite are selected by me and thoroughly <br />
verified by Dann Corbitt. Each question has been analysed by top engines for <br />
hours.<br />
* All the answers carry similar traits:<br />
-     (1) A Knight move to take control of the center or posit itself in the center. (Centralization)<br />
-     (2) A Knight move to step back and reposition itself to lead the <br />
-         different (or better) path. (Repositioning)<br />
-     (3) A Knight move to take control of the opponent's weak squares (Outposts) <br />
Recommended time: Anywhere between 10 seconds - 2 minutes for each test.<br />
<a href="http://computerchessblogger.googlepages.com/sts">http://computerchessblogger.googlepages.com/sts</a> (download)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: SCID</span></strong><br />
another commit to the source code (commits = 436)<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid">http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Chess Related Stuff</strong></span></p>
<p>A good beginner's article about relative strength testing and error margins <br />
written by Matt Gingell<br />
<a href="http://apps.sourceforge.net/wordpress/chesley/">http://apps.sourceforge.net/wordpress/chesley/</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/]Wiki Changes[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list]Chess Engine List[/url]</strong><br />
added Kenny Dial builds for Mac: Amundsen, Arasan, Beowulf, ColChess, Chenard,<br />
Crafty, Cyrano, Danasah, GreKo, Stockfish, Xpdnt, &amp; ZCT</p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list]Engine GUI List[/url]</strong><br />
added FSharpChess</p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index]Myrddin</strong><br />
added 'Testing Results' section with WAC and Undermining test suite results</p>
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