Engine Updates

ChessKISS 1.6 (WB)
Pascal (Delphi) source; Win32/64
"this version easily beats version 1.5b"
partial changelog:
- endgame: fixed error in KB vs KP
- SEE: fixed an enpassant issue
- IsPinned() now handles two variants of attacks
- bugfix: killers work by play rather than by depth
- killers not updated when in check
- do extension for check only when non bad captures or in PV
- do extension for winning captures in PV
- pruning of non capture evasions
http://meandmybits.blogspot.com/

Chess News

UCI2WB 1.9
allows UCI engines to function in a WB environment
- supports the UCI 'searchmoves' command for excluding moves from analysis
- binary is available in the new Winboard beta package
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.6beta.zip (WB beta)
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi (source)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 298 days
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Ildtiadar homepage down today ("502 Bad Gateway")
Revati homepage down today (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

KeePass Password Safe Classic Edition 1.22
open source password manager; manage your passwords securely
Classic Edition has fewer features but is adequate; does not require .NET framework
http://keepass.info/
http://keepass.info/compare.html (compare Classic vs Professional)

Lunascape 6.7.0 for Windows
free browser with all 3 major rendering engines: IE(Trident)+Firefox(Gecko)+Chrome/Safari(Webkit)
developers can preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

Ruby 1.9.3-p194
popular scripting language, often used with Rails library
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

µTorrent 3.1.3 stable (build 27095)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115600 (3.1.3 forum thread)

WordPress 3.3.2
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/04/wordpress-3-3-2/ (announcement)

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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