Engine Updates

AliChess 4.20 (UCI)
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/AliChess.html

Down chess websites
Brutus site down for 14 days
Eden site down for 12 days
Fimbulwinter site down for 14 days (fixing viruses?)
GreKo site down for 13 days (404 error)
Smirf site down for 13 days

Warming: George Lyapko site has infected main page

Chess News

STS #7: Offer of Simplification
new epd test suite from Swaminathan and Dann Corbit
- Placing pieces in direction of trade especially when you're either materially superior or positionally superior
- Tests your engine's understanding of simplification, trading of one of opponent's active pieces
- The best moves involve the offer for trade of pieces. In most cases, the offer has to be accepted to avoid any more positional disadvantage but in some positions the offer is best declined
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/home/offer-of-simplification

Note: SourceForge seems to be changing its name to GeekNet

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.0.3.50
free disk defragmentation program
be careful not to install unwanted toolbars, etc.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Defraggler 1.15
free file/directory defragmenter; works well with other defrag programs
be careful not to install unwanted toolbars, etc.
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

SQLite 3.6.20
open source SQL database for C programmers
- query planner has been enhanced to work better with bound parameters in LIKE and GLOB operators in range constraints
- various minor bug fixes and documentation enhancements
http://www.sqlite.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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