Update Information: August 8, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Glass 1.7 (UCI)
Win32/64; limit strength
- large opening book updated, no change to engine
http://www.marittima.pl/glass
Zeta Dva 0.187 (WB)
C source; Win32, Linux64; supports Polyglot books
- fix in PieceSquareTable Evaluation
https://github.com/smatovic/zeta_dva
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Bubble homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 43 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
Smaug homepage down for 14 days
Superchessengine homepage down for 57 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
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
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 (build 1392)
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free (homepage)
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh (download)
Soluto 1.2.231.0 Beta
free; uses community-developed power-user solutions to fix your PC problems
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.soluto.com/
Task Coach 1.2.25
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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