Update Information: May 25, 2013 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
AdaChess homepage down for 6 days ("account has been suspended")
Armageddon homepage down for 30 days (403 error: forbidden)
Belofte homepage down for 75 days ("this site has been suspended")
Dolphin homepage down for 73 days (not found)
Elf homepage down for 27 days ("domain name expired")
InmiChess homepage down for 70 days (no response in 60 seconds)
JavaRival homepage down for 37 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Power Chess PGN Databases page down for 18 days (not found)
Pyotr homepage down for 70 days (not found)
Sloppy homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Wing homepage down for 22 days (untrusted connection)
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
Nimrod 0.9.2
cross-platform, statically typed, imperative/object-oriented, compiled programming language
with overloaded functions/operators, iterators, exceptions, generics, closures, templates, macros
GC support for multi-core programming
- first time listed here
- syntax resembles Python or Ruby
- runtime efficiency of C
- single inheritance only
- can use type inference to deduce types
http://nimrod-code.org/index.html
Orwell Dev-C++ 5.4.2
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE for 32-/64-bit development
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/
SumatraPDF 2.3.2
free, open-source minimalistic PDF/mobi/chm/djvu/cbr reader for Windows; it is a portable app
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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