Engine Updates

Dorky 4.1 (WB)
Win32/64; mp
- estimated strength increase (+20 Elo)
- fixed draw by repetition detection. Dorky would allow repeats in potentially winnable positions
- fixed an SMP bug that was causing threads to spin-wait on opponents turn (in easy mode). This bug also had the effect of only using one thread to ponder during opening book. Dorky ponders (when not in easy mode) while in the opening book to fill hash tables
- found a bug in evasion generator that caused evasions involving a 2-square pawn advance to be missed for white
- added perft command
usage: perft [depth], optionally add “divide”
- improved my tree data structure slightly, slimming it down.
http://mmcknight.home.insightbb.com/

Chess News

Scid vs. PC 4.4.1 (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
- fix nasty flicker bug when board is flipped
- fix Fics bug that graph sometimes doesn't stop when new game starts
- add Burnett chess pieces
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 45 days (404: page not found)
Bubble homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Frenzee homepage down for 278 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly broken promise (move to new homepage) not done after 38 days
Loop homepage down for 26 days (serious clone accusation may have ended Loop)
MFChess homepage down for 32 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Chess Coach homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- expanded Delphil comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Chess Tutorials List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- removed Chess Coach
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_tutorials_list

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

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- updated Chesspad link, info, & comments
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Chess.com for iPhone
- added ChessPad for Android
- modified info for Chess Pro(fessional) for Android
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Alfil Chess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_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

Akka 1.1.1
open source library for Scala or Java languages running on the jvm
gives developers a simpler programming model to develop highly reliable
asynchronous, non-blocking applications for concurrent or parallel operation
using Actors, STM & Transactors; multi-core scalable and fault-tolerant
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

Eclipse SDK 4.1 RC 2
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- this is a *release candidate* for Eclipse plugin developers
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/e4/sdk/drops/S-4.1RC2-201105241000/index.php (download)

GParted Live 0.8.1-3
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

HWINFO32 3.80-1260
free system hardware information tool, system health monitoring, and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download)

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Patch 1
open source cross-platform IDE for many programming languages; many, but not all, are Java-based
(includes Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, JavaFX, JavaScript, Ajax, Scala, Groovy, etc.)
supports normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
"To obtain the fixes, the NetBeans IDE must be installed and running; an update notification will appear."
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)
http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1522.html (announcement)

µTorrent 3.0 RC 2
open source BitTorrent client
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=98500 (3.0 forum thread)

Meaning of Colors

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

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