Update Information: March 3, 2013 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Bouquet "Jukebox, Dev 1" (UCI)
Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
this is a 'personality release' of Bouquet
- "surely there is a important regression of Elo"
- "two UCI options that control the aggressiveness of the pawns"
https://sites.google.com/site/chessbouquet/ (home page)
http://www.mediafire.com/?xo4yngta5xb2wdg (direct link)
GreKo 10.0 JA (WB/UCI)
C++ source; limit strength; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Android
http://jimablett.net63.net/ (JA secondary page)
Slow Chess 2.960d (WB/UCI)
modification of original Slow Chess 2.96 by Jonathan Kreuzer
this modification is by Alexander Schmidt to play Chess960 (FRC)
Win32; limit strength; FRC
- bugfix for Elo levels
- bugfix for queenside castling in normal chess
- finetuning of Elo levels
- tiny modification of pawnshield evaluation in Chess960
- beware of the annoying pop-under ad when downloading
http://chessengines.wordpress.com/category/download/
http://chessengines.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/slowchess-2-960d/ (announcement)
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Akkad homepage down for 75 days (not found)
Bestia homepage down for 13 days (a 110mb.com site)
Deep Saros homepage down for 75 days (not found)
Jim Ablett main page down for 2 days (use JA secondary page)
Lyapko Utilities page down for 13 days (a 110mb.com site)
Warning: Inmi site has been hacked and is unsafe to visit
AVG antivirus: 'Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit [type 2389]'
Kaspersky antivirus: 'object is infected'
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
PureOS 7.0
Debian-based Linux distro; GNOME or OpenBox desktop; #61 in popularity
http://pureos.org/
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Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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