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Update Information: July 9, 2013 (Updates)

by Ron @, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 01:00

Engine Updates

Cheese Opening book 1.1
- new book
http://cheesechess.free.fr/en/index.html

Tony Mokonen Windows builds
Giuchess 1.0 TM (WB)
C source; Win32
- requires external cygwin dll (included in package)
http://tmokonen.net84.net/GiuChess-1.0.rar (direct link)

Chess News

Chess Engines for Android in Chessbase format
Aart Bik's collection of engines that run on commercial Chessbase Android Chess GUI
- version 1.0.3 of engines package is available
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

Chess for Android 4.2 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Gperft 1.0.1
new perft program by Paul Byrne
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxoogxwkbncxd68/gperft.zip (direct link)

600,000 Test Positions
FEN files are from Steven J Edwards (direct links for all)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w6cpi2x2nfl7zrc/checkmates.fen (Checkmates)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z1htwf0rh9hvrh/matein1.fen (Mate in 1)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ehactdxade5fw2/matein2.fen (Mate in 2)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0e6v61x4so4cd9x/matein3.fen (Mate in 3)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ge1xo1vu2gl039y/matein4.fen (Mate in 4)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3cr8rdhgg723hya/stalemates.fen (Stalemates)

Down/Problem Chess Websites :-(

Bestia homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Fianchetto homepage down for 2 days (502: bad gateway)
Flux homepage down for 2 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Wing homepage down for 67 days (not found)

AdaChess homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.
Armageddon homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.
JavaRival homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.
PowerChess PGN Databases page is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.

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

Akka 2.2.0
open source library for Scala or other JVM languages; gives developers a simpler programming
model to develop highly reliable asynchronous, non-blocking applications for concurrent or
parallel operation using Actors, STM & Transactors; multi-core scalable and fault-tolerant
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

Clonezilla Live 2.1.2-20 Stable
open source system image backup/restore (Live) or multicast new system images (SE)
http://clonezilla.org/
http://clonezilla.org/news.php (release notes)

Flash Player 11.8.800.94
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

Groovy 2.1.6
open source jvm dynamic scripting language; it is a superset of the Java language
http://groovy.codehaus.org/ (homepage)

qBittorrent 3.0.10
open source cross-platform Bittorrent client
http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Shockwave Player 12.0.3.133
allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser
(displays web content that has been created using Adobe Director)
http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer.html (shockwave homepage)
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (download)

SUPER Video Converter 2013 build 56
free multimedia encoder/converter and player
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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