Update Information: September 25, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Lantern Chess 4.48 (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB & UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac
http://www.lanternchess.com/ (homepage)
http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html (help)
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Dann Corbit homepage down for 90 days
GreKo homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
Ildtiadar homepage down for 3 days
Pyotr homepage down for 12 days
old Matacz homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked
Wiki Changes
Matacz page
- new home page for Matacz
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:matacz:index
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
FreeFileSync 4.0
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
haXe 2.08
open source, cross-platform programming language
haXe is a transpiler that can output Javascript, Flash, PHP, C++, C# or Java code
or it can run on its own Neko virtual machine
- first time listed here
http://haxe.org/
http://haxe.org/file/CHANGES.txt (changelog)
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