Update Information: November 21, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Sjaak r367 (WB)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac32/64; variants
- allows you to specify an input file in which you can specify your own variant
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html
Chess News
ChessGUI 0.238 (WB/UCI)
chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
http://www.chessgui.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Asterisk homepage down for 18 days
Damas homepage down for 57 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 147 days
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
Artistic Style 2.02.1
open source source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C# and Java programming languages
http://astyle.sourceforge.net/
Network Scanner 5.3.1
free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports &
displays shared network resource types
- this is a silent update, version number is unchanged
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
PyPy 1.7 (Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
"The ... average of all [PyPy] benchmarks is ... 4.7 times faster than CPython"
- PyPy 1.7 implements Python 2.7.1
- available for Linux32/64
- Windows 32-bit binaries are *not* available yet, no Win64
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-16-kickass-panda.html (announcement)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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