Update Information: June 27, 2012 (Updates)
I will be on vacation. No updates until July 2nd
Engine Updates
DiscoCheck 3.6 (UCI)
C source; Win64, Linux64
- search: experimental queen threat extension (actually non-reduction at low depth)
- calc_eval: now distinguish the treatement of draws and drawish endgames
- is_drawish: KPK bitbase added, ported the code from Stockfish to generate the bitbase
- id_loop: now there are two time limits, max_time[2]. max_time[0] is the normal time, and max_time[1] is a higher one used to solve aspiration window fail high/low, for the current iteration
- search: null move minimum depth condition removed
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DiscoCheck.html
Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
DiscoCheck 3.6 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Android
http://jimablett.net63.net/
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Akiba homepage down for 21 days
Dann Corbit homepage down for 367 days
Polish engine list homepage down for 21 days
Tony Mokonen's files down today ('404: not found' error)
Wiki Changes
Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Nimzo 2000
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_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
CDT 8.1
open source, fully-featured C/C++ IDE plugin for Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
Feng Office 2.0.1 RC 2
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)
JSDuck 4.0 Beta 1
open source JavaScript documentation generator
- this is a *beta* release
https://github.com/nene/jsduck
PyQt 4.9.4
Python bindings for the Qt libraries
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/
Winamp 5.63
free Windows media player
http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en
WordPress 3.4.1
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/06/wordpress-3-4-1/ (announcement)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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