Engine Updates

Houdini 1.5a (UCI)
Win32/64, mp; multiPV; accused of being an Ippolit derivative, but no proof has been offered
"Houdini 1.5a ... will produce the same ... game performance as Houdini 1.5"
"update is primarily aimed at Fritz GUI users"
- long engine matches could generate time control issues
- deep Position analysis didn't work properly
- minor improvements related to Gaviota EGTB detection and usage
http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm

Tippy Chess 2011a (UCI)
new engine by André Fernandes
Win32; Stockfish dervative
http://www.tippychess.com/downloads.asp
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=pt&tl=en&...

Chess News

ChessZone Magazine
Free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
- # 1, 2011
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Gaviota tablebases, probing code 0.3.2.3
Miguel Ballicora's open source probing code for engine programmers (in C language)
- bugfix in the tb_availability() code
http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/Home/releases/gaviotatablebasesprobingcodev0323updatebugfix

Kvetka 3.8.1 Chess GUI (UCI)
intended for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
- new version is released
- "all known bugs are fixed in it"
http://kvetka.org/en/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Aldebaran homepage down for 27 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Fianchetto homepage down for 4 days (configuration error)
Frenzee homepage down for 149 days (webpage taken down until new engine release)
Genesis homepage down for 2 days
Sorgenkind homepage down for 15 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 13 days

Wiki Changes

Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Chesster
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Caligula for Pocket PC´s
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_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

Vala/Genie 0.11.4
the Vala language resembles C# and the Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
this is the *developmental* branch (beta)
- add index_of, index_of_char, and char_count to string class
- many bug fixes and binding updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-list@gnome.org/msg06406.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)
http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.11/ (compiler source code)

Meaning of Colors

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

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