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<title>Update Information: July 25, 2009</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Sunday, July 26, 2009, 01:39:</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:#090;">Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 237</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 1571</span></strong><br />
- a little better check analysis<br />
- some mild heuristic modifications<br />
source code only update<br />
most recent exe files: 1557 (x64) and 1553 (Win32)<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: SCP 2.02</span></strong><br />
SCP == Stanback Chess Program, also known as GNUChess 2.02<br />
new Jim Ablett feature additions:<br />
- Made Editboard() compliant with winboard edit mode so<br />
v2.02 now play ok from different start postions<br />
- Added winboard analysis mode. Can now analyze positions<br />
- Source code now compiles on MSVC as well as Mingw &amp; Cygwin<br />
- Profile guided optimized 32 bit Msvc compile<br />
<a href="http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html">http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html</a> - Jim Ablett<br />
<a href="http://john.stanback.net/">http://john.stanback.net/</a> - John Stanback homepage (no update)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Down chess websites</span></strong>  <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /><br />
LarsenVB site down today<br />
Pierre site down for 32 days<br />
Sinobyl site down today<br />
BabyChess: all web content reinstated <img src="images/smilies/smile.png" alt=":-)" /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Nesik site back up after being down for 29 days!</span></strong> <img src="images/smilies/smile.png" alt=":-)" /><br />
<a href="http://nesik.republika.pl/index.html">http://nesik.republika.pl/index.html</a> </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:#090;">Update: Michel Van den Bergh's Polyglot 1.4b26</span></strong><br />
... Linux and Window builds<br />
summary:<br />
- Contraction of version number<br />
- Log if SetProcessAffinityMask is not available (suggested by E.M.)<br />
- pipe.cpp : Make PipeStruct a proper class with private/public members<br />
- Check for EOF in GUI input<br />
- pipe.cpp : delay reporting EOF until buffer is empty<br />
- Messages from the Engine to PG were not logged in the windows version<br />
changed files:<br />
- ChangeLog<br />
- manpage.txt<br />
- polyglot_dev.exe                 25-Jul-2009 11:03  103K  <br />
new builds:<br />
- polyglot-1.4b26-1.i386.rpm       25-Jul-2009 11:03  102K  <br />
- polyglot-1.4b26.tar.gz           25-Jul-2009 11:01  244K  <br />
- polyglot_1.4b26_i386.deb         25-Jul-2009 11:02  105K  <br />
<a href="http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/">http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: SCID 4.0 beta 1</span></strong><br />
builds for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid">http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid</a></p>
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