Engine Updates

Dirty 14M-22(WB)
Win32
Today the new version is released
- changes in search
- LMR tuned
- pondering bug fixed
- time management enhanced
- eval tuned
http://www.dirtychess.com/downloads.php

MatMoi 7.15.0-cct (WB)
new engine by Mathieu Pagé
Win32/64, Linux32/64
http://www.mathieupage.com/s/index.html?p=matmoi.html

Pawny 0.18 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32
- recapture extension removed
- small optimization - dynamic update of the material count
- maintenance release
http://pawny.netii.net/

Protector 1.3.3 (UCI)
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 242), no new build
- position & eval change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 570)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Down/Problem chess websites
Amyan homepage down for 2 days
Ares homepage down for 50 days
BabyChess homepage down for 31 days
Betsy homepage down for 68 days
Blitzer homepage down for 2 days
Colossus homepage down for 74 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 46 days
Gosu homepage down today
Sinobyl homepage down for 20 days
Bubble homepage back up
Philemon homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Private Engine List
- removed MatMoi, it is now public
- removed Darmenios, it is now public
- removed Quadrox, it was renamed to ChessV and released publicly
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_list

Chess Engine List
- added Tamerlane
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_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 occasionally crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

7-Zip 9.11 beta
open source file archiver with very good compression. Recommended.
this is a *beta* release
http://www.7-zip.org

PyPy 1.2 (Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT, no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
http://pypy.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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