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<title>Update Information: July 5-7, 2009</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Wednesday, July 08, 2009, 00:24:</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: Crimson, Toga Toy, Cyclops, Alderon</span></strong><br />
All of these engines are now retreated</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 202</span></strong><br />
no build for this version yet<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Gray Matter rev. 1547</span></strong><br />
Latest exe is x64 build of version 1544<br />
- searches deeper for interesting positions (captures, checks, etc.) Much better scoring (1540)<br />
- found a few more things to optimize. seems to be much faster again (1541)<br />
- A few more performance mods. Also, some other changes which don't seem to help much (1542)<br />
- found another major performance mod (1543)<br />
- c++-ified lots of stuff, inlined more, just a bit faster/str... (1544)<br />
- a smaller and probably better opening book<br />
- fixing gnu compiler errors (1545)<br />
- making things build on Linux with gnu compiler (1546)<br />
- removed a magnificient hack in favor of a simple approximation of the same (1547)<br />
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/">http://code.google.com/p/gray-matter/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Stockfish 1.4</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dxnggmjf2nj">http://www.mediafire.com/?dxnggmjf2nj</a> (source)<br />
Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/10 pgo builds<br />
<a href="http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html">http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html</a> (Jim Ablett)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Sungorus 1.1</span></strong><br />
- Removed mg/eg pst interpolation<br />
- Added passed pawn scoring<br />
- Added check extension<br />
- Added a transposition table<br />
- Added hash move in move ordering<br />
- Added killer moves in move ordering<br />
- Added repetition detection<br />
- Added null move<br />
Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/10 pgo builds<br />
<a href="http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html">http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html</a> (Jim Ablett)<br />
all-in-one (Linux, Mac Windows) download<br />
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sungorus/">http://sites.google.com/site/sungorus/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">New: Toga CMLX 1.4.5e</span></strong><br />
a new Toga/Fruit derivative by Teemu Pudas<br />
-Supports Arena and Shredder FRC<br />
-Linux support (using code from here)<br />
-Some bugfixes after the version I mentioned earlier today in another thread<br />
<a href="http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/91/169191/TogaCMLX145e3.zip">http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/91/169191/TogaCMLX145e3.zip</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Kenny Dail Mac builds</span></strong><br />
- Chesley the Chess Engine 200<br />
- Gray Matter rev. 1540<br />
- Stockfish 1.4<br />
- Sungorus 1.1<br />
- extragames.pgn.zip (PGN database file)<br />
<a href="http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/">http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Down chess websites</span></strong>  <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /><br />
Down websites will be reviewed tomorrow</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: SuperGM.pgn</span></strong><br />
Norm Pollock PGN database files<br />
&quot;SuperGM.pgn&quot; contains 21267 games between 115 SuperGrandMasters, in<br />
1 cluster, spanning the years 1862 through 2008. The download has its<br />
own readme file.<br />
<a href="http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html">http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: SCID</span></strong><br />
another update to the source code today (patchset 476)<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid">http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/]Wiki Changes[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p>Wiki changes will be detailed tomorrow</p>
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