Update Information: December 3, 2009 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Chesley the Chess Engine r306 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: r300 JA(Win32/64), 1.1(Mac)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/
Neurone 0.0.3 (WB)
new engine by Luca Lissandrello; Win32; requires .NET framework 2.0 or later
engine was first released on November 23, 2009
the Neurone website has downloads of many other engines (WB & UCI)
- fixed black king in check error
- fixed error generated if Arena book selected
- small speed improved in starting game (18% of old total time)
- blunder move by queen (white and black) removed
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=it&tl=en&u=http://www.mrlissandrello.com...
Down chess websites
RBrChess site down for 6 days (exceeded quota?)
Sissa site down today
Smirf site down for 42 days
Armageddon site back up
Lyapko utilities site no longer an attack site
Chess News
SCID
5 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 526)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid
Wiki Changes
FACE Tournament
many pages updated showing recent tournament results including new ratings & PGN downloads
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face
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
GParted 0.5.0-2
open source Gnome Partition Editor- resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/ (download)
Miro 2.5.4
open source Internet TV
http://www.participatoryculture.org/
PeaZip 2.8.1
open source file and archive manager
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP
- extract 98 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many more...
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list