Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Komodo 1.3 beta 1 JA (UCI)
Win32/64, Linux32/64
"30 ELO stronger (conservative estimate)"
- improved evaluation
- improved search
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

REMainsworthy 118/209/ex213 (WB)
C++ source; Win32; own GUI (GUI for native use only, no other WB or UCI engines); author has several engines
"118 is add to the excisting zip"
"a few speedup routeens, now very fast! and have changed the eval() function"
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akiba homepage down for 11 days (404 error)
Aldebaran homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
ChessAlex homepage down for 23 days (404 error)
Frenzee homepage down for 124 days (webpage taken down until new engine release)
NSVChess homepage down for 80 days (403 error: forbidden)
Holger Schluckebier Mac builds homepage down for 60 days (internal server error)

Wiki Changes

Chess GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Bookup: further expansion of comments
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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

Defraggler 2.01
free file/directory/drive defragmenter with scheduling & many options
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2010/12/21/defraggler-v201 (announcement)

Digital Mars D Compiler 1.066 & 2.051 alpha
free compiler for Win32, Linux32 & Mac; an interesting OO language
- version 1.066 is the latest stable release; 2.051 is an *alpha* release
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html

Drizzle 2010.12.06
MySQL fork; not for Windows; redesigned & optimized for massive concurrency; supports SQL92
http://drizzle.org/Home.html

FBackup 4.5.234
free, simple backup program
http://www.fbackup.com/

Groovy++ 0.4.113
open source jvm language; it appears to be a superset of the Java language
this is an extension to the standard Groovy jvm language; it supports better runtime efficiency using static typing
http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/downloads/list

HWINFO32 3.65-1065
free system hardware information tool, system health monitoring and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download)

Network Scanner 5.1
free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports & displays shared network resource types
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

PyPy 1.4.1
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), 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
- note: Windows builds are not ready yet
- "mostly a bugfix release, although the performance over the previous release 1.4 has improved in some cases"
http://pypy.org/

Python 3.2 beta 2
popular open source scripting language
this is a *beta* release
http://www.python.org/ (homepage)
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/ (more info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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