Update Information: December 10, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Supra 14.0 (UCI)
Win32/64
- increased of effect of internal iterative depening
- improvement in positional arrays
- extra evaluation: detailed assessment of the position of pawns
- more aggressively to the enemy king
- best performance in finals
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)
Chess News
Scid On The Go 1.37 for Android
Scid database browser ported to the Android
http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Bestia homepage down for 48 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down for 12 days (not found)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 533 days
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 7 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 48 days (a 110mb.com site)
Porucznik homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Revati homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
all SourceForge sites are down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Glass website has moved to
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/glass/
Hopeless website has moved to
http://hopelesschess.prv.pl/
Rodent website has moved to
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent.htm
Wiki Changes
Chess Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- Glass: updated link
- Hopeless: updated link
- Rodent: updated link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_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
DB2 Express-C 10.1.2
IBM free version of DB2 relational database without any limits on database size or number of users
for Win32/64, Linux32/64, and Mac (Mac version is *beta*)
limitations: 2 cores max, 4 GB RAM max, no data replication, no clustering, no backup compression, no support
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/about.html (description)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/DB2/FREE+Book-+Getting+Started+with+DB2+Express-C (free ebook)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html (download)
Django 1.4.3
high-level, rapid development Python-based web framework
https://www.djangoproject.com/
Ext JS 4.2 Beta 1 GPL
free version of the open source cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.sencha.com/ (homepage)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ (info)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/download/ (download)
Flash Player 11.6.602.105
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/
FrostWire 5.5.1
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/
Git 1.8.0.2
free, cross-platform, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/
IKVM.NET 7.2
Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
- this is the version compatible with Java 7
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement)
Miranda IM 0.10.9
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Slax 7.0
Slackware-based Linux distro; KDE desktop; #61 in popularity
http://www.slax.org/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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