Engine Updates

Daydreamer 1.75 RC 1 (UCI)
C source; Win32
this build is is a *release candidate*
- uses Gaviota tablebases
- improves ctg book support
- fixes some bugs in move selection
- adds proper support for move annotations
- fixes an ugly bug in pawn evaluation
- simplification of some pruning and reduction logic
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/~abecker/daydreamer_175_rc1.exe (direct link)
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/ (homepage, no download)

Mainsworthy T14 & S11 (WB)
Win32; own GUI (GUI for native use only, no other WB or UCI engines)
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html (Leo page)

Chess News

Salvo's Opening Suite
PGN file by Salvo Spitaleri of 50 opening positions deemed to be "equal"
"It's well balanced between the ECO and open and closed positions, limited at only 8 moves and
designed for engine testing, reversed colors!"
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/download.htm (Leo page)

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Amundsen homepage down for 3 days
Betsy homepage down for 82 days
Blitzer homepage down for 16 days
Brama homepage down for 9 days
Colossus homepage down for 88 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 60 days
Dika homepage down for 10 days
Gosu homepage down for 15 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 34 days
Sissa homepage back up
Smash homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Tri-OS
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 crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

CCleaner 2.30
free system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool; thorough and effective: Recommended
http://www.ccleaner.com/

SQLite 3.6.23.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- fix a bug in the offsets() function of FTS3
http://www.sqlite.org/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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