Update Information: September 27, 2013 (Updates)
Engine Updates
NG-Play 9.3 (WB)
C source; Win32
http://users.otenet.gr/~yggeorgo/
Tony Mokonen Win32 builds
SillyChess ??? (UCI)
new engine by Eugene Zemtsov, no version number
Haskell source; Win32
https://github.com/Djuffin/SillyChess (project page)
http://tmokonen.net84.net/ (Win32 download)
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex WBTM homepage down for 67 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 82 days (a 110mb.com site)
BikJump homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bright homepage down for 58 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 82 days (502 error: bad gateway)
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Hamsters homepage down for 46 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 46 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 82 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 66 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 58 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 13 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 67 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 147 days (not found)
Toga Returns homepage has been hacked and is dangerous to visit
Wiki Changes
FACE Tournament
- new results have changed rankings
- latest game PGNs uploaded
- updated pages: face, participants, & download
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face
GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- ChessBase: added a comment
- CuteChess CLI: added another link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:icga_tournament_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
Eclipse 4.3.1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.3.1-201309111000/ (4.3.1)
Feng Office 2.3.2
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)
MonetDB Feb2013, SP4
a heavy-duty, full-featured, cross-platform, open-source database that is not well-known
http://www.monetdb.org/Home (homepage)
http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ReleaseNotes (release notes)
http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ (download)
OpenOffice 4.0.1
open source word processing, database, spreadsheet, chart, math formula editor, etc
OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0.1+Release+Notes (release notes)
http://www.openoffice.org/
Pale Moon 24.0.2
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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