Update Information: May 16, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
AlfilChess homepage has moved to http://esacosta.wordpress.com/
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Aristarch homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
BabyChess homepage down for 37 days (404: page not found)
Frenzee homepage down for 270 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly broken promise (move to new homepage) not done after 30 days
Loop homepage down for 18 days (serious clone accusation may have ended Loop)
MFChess homepage down for 24 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Wiki Changes
Nothing new today
Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)
Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare
ActivePerl Community Edition
free cross-platform Perl distribution including the most popular Perl libraries
- Perl 5.14.0.1400
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
Artistic Style 2.02
open source source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C# and Java programming languages
http://astyle.sourceforge.net/
Eclipse SDK 4.1 RC 1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- this is a *release candidate* for Eclipse plugin developers
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/e4/sdk/drops/S-4.1RC1-201105161455/index.php (download)
VirtualBox 4.0.8
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)
Wireshark 1.6.0 RC 1
open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for advanced users
- this is the *release candidate*
http://www.wireshark.org/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list
NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org