Update Information: May 2, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Chess Engines for Android
- added DoubleCheck 3.4 (UCI)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html
Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
"Games from 2001 to 2011"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
- Olivier updates this collection monthly
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html
Kvetka 3.14.2 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
- "essentially a stability update"
http://kvetka.org/en/
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Chad's Chess homepage down for 3 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 310 days
FirstChess source code page down for 3 days
Geko homepage down for 4 days (this Google site has disappeared)
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Ildtiadar homepage down for 4 days (404 Not Found)
Wiki Changes
GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- WinBoard and XBoard: changed a link and minor comment revisions
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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
C Containers Library
C library to perform STL-like duties (containers, iterators, etc) with nice usage syntax
this is a proposed addition to the standard C library
- silent update, no version change (no version numbering at all)
- make sure you download the ccl.pdf doc file for usage instructions
http://code.google.com/p/ccl/downloads/list
Drupal 7.14
open source PHP-based content management platform for easy website creation
- older 6.26 version also updated
http://drupal.org/home
FreeFileSync 5.3
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
Git 1.7.10.1
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/
ICQ 7M
audio/video/text chat w/ connectivity to Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc for desktop & mobile
http://www.icq.com/en
Java 6, Update 32
update of Java runtime and development kit (JRE or JDK)
- new update to an older version of Java
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
LibreOffice 3.5.3
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
Miro 5.0
open source HD video player with 6,000+ free Internet TV shows
http://www.participatoryculture.org/
Wise Registry Cleaner 7.17
free registry cleaner; cleans incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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