Update Information: December 8, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Sting SF 1.0 (UCI)
Stockfish clone except for "good sacrifices" change
- source code only!
- "Sting seems to be stronger than Stockfish"
http://www.free.of.pl/c/ccintorun/g/sting.rar (direct link)
Supra 8.2 (UCI)
Win32
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)
Chess News
Lucas Chess 6.1
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
http://lucaschess.host22.com/ (homepage)
http://lucaschess.host22.com/novedades.htm (changes)
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Asterisk homepage down for 35 days
Damas homepage down for 74 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 164 days
Wiki Changes
Chess Engine List
- Bibi: moved from Retreated Engine List back to main Chess Engine List
- Fruit: added SuperChessEngine link
- GambitFruit: added SuperChessEngine link
- Movei: added SuperChessEngine link
- Naum: added SuperChessEngine link
- Patzer: added SuperChessEngine link
- Smash: added SuperChessEngine link
- Toga II: added SuperChessEngine link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
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
MySQL Community Server 5.5.19
free (Community Server Edition only!), and very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)
PHP 5.4.0 RC 3
PHP 5.3.9 RC 3
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language mostly used for web applications
- both new versions are *release candidates*
http://php.net/ (homepage)
µTorrent 3.1 stable (build 26591)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=109914 (3.1 forum thread)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list
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