Update Information: June 8, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Capivara LK 0.08a11 (UCI)
C source (older versions); Win32/64; TSCP derivative; requires VC runtimes unless using alternative version
- added Win32-bit build to download file
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Supra 11.4 (UCI)
Win32/64
- new 64-bit version 10-20% faster on 64 bit systems
- improving the reliability of negative and positive float filter
- new Turbo search: when activated allows SUPRA use a method of searching a bit faster by staged increments of alpha
- corrected error of evaluation sent to the GUI arena (error reported by Shahinjy)
- fix a small error in the analysis of a tie by drowning the enemy king
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)
Chess News
Numpty@NR (WB)
plays Nightrider chess variant
https://sites.google.com/site/numptychess/
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Akiba homepage down today
Armageddon homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Chad's Chess homepage down for 40 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 347 days
Mustang homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Polish engine list homepage down today
Tony Mokonen download page down for 11 days (Tony's engine site is fine)
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
Calibre 0.8.55
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Greenshot 1.0.0.1914 Unstable
free, open source screenshot capture program for Windows
- this is an unstable (*beta*) release
http://getgreenshot.org/
Immunet Protect Free 3.0.6.8523
Cloud-based antivirus that can used in addition to your regular antivirus
http://www.immunet.com/free/index.html
Maqetta Preview 6.01
open source visual authoring system of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser
this is a *preview* version (beta)
http://maqetta.org/
Maxthon 3.3.9.2000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/
Process Explorer 15.20
displays information about which Windows handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
PyPy 1.9 (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 (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64
"The ... average of all [PyPy] benchmarks is ... 5.52 times faster than CPython"
- performance improved roughly 4% on average since the previous release
- PyPy 1.9 implements Python 2.7.2
- Win64 binaries are *not* available
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html (announcement)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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