Update Information: April 24, 2010 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Jim Ablett Win builds
AliBaba 1.25wb JA (WB)
C source; Win32, Linux32
- fixed critical memory leak
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html
Ares 1.004 (WB/UCI)
Win32
"should be 50 to 75 Elo stronger than [previous version]"
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Ares.html
http://www.thorstenczub.de/ares.html
Jim Ablett Win builds
Chesley r322 JA (WB)
Win32/64, Linux32/64
- no source code with this build
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html
LittleThought 1.05.2 (UCI)
Win32/64; mp; FRC
- fixed one more Chess960 bug
http://www.kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littlethought.php
Redqueen 0.4 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 172), no new build
- changed PV search to do full search in the first move of the list
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess
Chess News
Nothing new found
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down today ("Temporarily Disabled")
Amundsen homepage down for 6 days
Betsy homepage down for 108 days
Blitzter homepage down for 43 days
Brama homepage down for 35 days
Colossus homepage down for 114 days
Dika homepage down for 36 days
Gosu homepage down for 41 days
Lyapko Utilities site down (again) for 2 days at 110mb site
Nesik homepage down for 20 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 60 days
Sissa homepage down for 2 days
Tony's Chess homepage down (again) for 2 days at 110mb site
Wiki Changes
Software For Solving Chess Problems / Puzzles / Endgame Studies
updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Abdelaziz Onkoud's pages
- added Alexander Herbstmann's pages
- added Danish Chess Problem Society
- added Il Matto del Postino
- added Rooff's Chesspage
- removed StrateGems
- updated a link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:software_for_solving_chess_problems
Chess Engine List
- added ZChess
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
Fresh HTML 3.46
free html editor
http://www.freshwebmaster.com/index.html
µTorrent 2.0.1 (build 19248)
open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/
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