Engine Updates

Tornado 3.21a (UCI)
for Win32/64, FRC
- tornado was stay after the game if using with more then 1cpu in the memory, this was also fixed
- timecontrol management changed
- eval endgame weights changed
- SMP search changed
http://www.tornadochess.de/

Pawny 0.12 (UCI)
for Win32/64 with source
(Fixed Bugs)
- 'ucinewgame' initialize TT again with unknown size -- fixed
- Too short history stack -- fixed
- Too short uci line buffer, causing an exception -- fixed
- Improperly calculated material gain for move in futility pruning -- fixed
- History stack improperly indexed in the recapture extension -- fixed
(Changes and notes)
- New data structures for move representation.
- Some work was done on the info output, still more to be done.
- A lot of code was revised regarding new types and sizes.
- Better code logic, typecasting and other minor changes.
http://pawny.netii.net/

Jim Ablett Win builds
- GnuChess 5.07.6b JA (WB) for Win 32/64
http://www.mediafire.com/?r0wmmqe0zhn
- Chesley r289 JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Chesley the Chess Engine r290 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: r289 JA(Win32/64), 1.1(Mac)
- Commit fixes for Windows provided by Jim Ablett
- Do not use dynamically sized array types
- Provide declaration for missing isnan
- Make cast from int to double explicit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Protector 1.2.7 (UCI)
revision(s) to the source code today (current = rev. 61)
no builds yet
- changed scoring for mobility, king safety, outposts, & bonus targets
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)
latest builds are here (updated often):
http://protector.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/protector/bin/ (bin files)

SmarThink 1.20 announcement
- We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of SmarThink 1.20
- This version is approx 60-70 points stronger than the previous version
- The engine will come in both 32 as 64 bit versions
http://www.lokasoft.nl/news.htm/lokasoft_news/announcing_smarthin_1.20

Updated Video Games
by Francesca author Tom King
http://www.zen55564.zen.co.uk/download.htm

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 67 days
Jim Ablett site down for a couple of hours today

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

WPG System64 1.99
open source; a 64-bit Native Portable Build and Development Environment for Windows
64-bit tools for programmers: C/C++/Fortran/Java/PHP/Perl/Python, etc
Comes with portable versions of CodeBlocks and CodeLite IDEs; Recommended!
http://www.cadforte.com/system64.html

Autoruns 9.55
free system information utility from Microsoft
shows what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and the order which Windows processes them
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0928
free pdf viewer: less bloat & faster render than Adobe
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

Google Chrome 3.0.195.24 Final
free and fast web browser
http://www.google.com/chrome

Karen's LAN Monitor 1.4.1
free utility to display network adapters and network traffic
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptlanmon.asp

Paint.NET v3.5 Beta 2
very nice free image and photo editing software (paint program)
http://www.getpaint.net/

Sandboxie 3.40
free utility w/source: run/install programs in a sandbox that cannot affect your Windows stability/security
http://www.sandboxie.com/

Sysinternals Suite
free Microsoft utilities bundle
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx