Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
BagaturChess 1.3 JA (UCI)
Java source; mp
- this is a Launch4J Win32 build
http://jimablett.net63.net/

Glass 1.9 (UCI)
Win32/64; limit strength
http://www.marittima.pl/glass

ProChess 101 C 'prime' (UCI)
Win32
http://www.g-sei.org/pro-chess/

ProDeo 1.8 (WB/UCI)
Win32
- "a good improvement over version 1.74"
http://www.top-5000.nl/index.htm

Chess News

Chess Engines for Android
- removed: DeepPosForAndroid
- added: DeepBrutePos for Android
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

HaChu 0.0 (WB)
new engine by HG Muller; plays Chu Shogi only (12x12 board with 22 different piece types)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-Chu.zip (bundle: Winboard Alien + ini + engine)
http://hgm.nubati.net/hachu.exe (engine only)

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
Olivier updates this collection monthly
"Games from 2001 to 2012"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dancing Dragon homepage down today
Dann Corbit homepage down for 376 days
DeepDuke homepage down for 5 days (SourceForge project page is okay)
GreKo homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down for 5 days (a 110mb.com site)
NagaSkaki homepage down today

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 0.8.59
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/

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)
- the pdf documentation has been updated
http://code.google.com/p/ccl/downloads/list (download)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ccl/ccl.html (usage doc in html)
http://code.google.com/p/ccl/downloads/detail?name=ccl.pdf (usage doc in pdf)

ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.5
excellent open source antivirus scanner, does not include an on-access real-time scanner
http://www.clamwin.com/

Feng Office 2.1.0
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)

Parted Magic 2012_07_05
open source partition editor, virus/rootkit scanner, hard drive cloner, and hard drive & RAM tester; recommended
http://partedmagic.com/

PDFCreator 1.4.2
free Windows tool to create PDF files from nearly any application
http://www.pdfforge.org/

Pidgin 2.10.6
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
- quick bugfix for yesterday's release
http://www.pidgin.im/ (homepage)
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog (changelog)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/ (download)

Process Hacker 2.28
open source; examine & manipulate running Windows processes & services
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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