Engine Updates

Naraku 1.3 (UCI)
Win32
- "Rating: 2600-2630 elo points"
- more aggressive pruning and better move ordering
- engine now dynamically select optimum futility parameters based on depth and turns of game, but it is still not perfect tuned
- late move reduction
- better PGO compile (engine slighty faster)
- better evaluation function
- bishop outpost
http://www.miroku79.info/blog/?page_id=88

Redqueen 0.7.5 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 467), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 614)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Frenzee homepage down for 86 days (webpage taken down until new engine release)
NSVChess homepage down for 40 days (403 error: forbidden)
Prophet site down for 10 days ("This domain name expired on 11/01/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion")
Holger Schluckebier Mac builds homepage down for 20 days (internal server error)
Pawny homepage back up
Smash homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- updated Neurone homepage link
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

7-Zip 9.19 beta
open source file archiver with very good compression. Recommended.
this is a *beta* release
http://www.7-zip.org

BitComet 1.24
free peer-to-peer file-sharing; compatible with BitTorrent
http://www.bitcomet.com/

Fantom 1.0.56
open source language resembling Java & C#; code is portable to JVM, .NET CLR, or JavaScript
this cool OO/imperative/functional/concurrent language is relatively unknown
http://fantom.org/

Gosu 0.7.0-C
an advanced Java-like language for the jvm featuring: oo, closures, inference, simplified generics, etc.
http://gosu-lang.org/

OpenOffice 3.3.0 RC 4
open source word processing, database, spreadsheet, chart, math formula editor, etc
this is a *release candidate*
http://download.openoffice.org/ (homepage)
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.3 (new features)
http://download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html (info & download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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