Engine Updates

Grizzly has a new homepage
http://www.slengo.de/index.php/en/

Chess News

Polyglot 1.4.67b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- disable "book learning"
"Polyglot saves learning information but does not use it itself, probably for
a reason. I believe the booklearning concept of Polyglot is fundamentally
broken. Learning information is engine specific so it should not be saved in
the opening book (it might be saved elsewhere). There are other issues as
well, such as copyright and the possibility of the proliferation of polluted
books. Opening books can be improved with information from games by using the
merge command. This is a form of off line learning which is probably much more
effective since one has strict control over what kind of information is added
to the book."
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Winglet tutorial
A step-by-step guide for writing and improving your own bitboard chess engine by Stef Luijten
- Stef continues writing his C++ tutorial
http://www.sluijten.com/winglet/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 53 days (404: page not found)
Bullucks homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Frenzee homepage down for 286 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Loop homepage down for 34 days (it seems that Loop is a Fruit clone!)
MFChess homepage down for 40 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Pos homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Grizzly homepage back up
Norm Pollock homepage back up
Trace homepage back up
Loop clone evidence:
http://open-chess.org/download/file.php?id=351

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- adjusted 'ICS (FICS, ICC, etc.)' column for CSBoard
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

FACE Tournament
- Gerhard has updated these pages: face participants, download, ratings
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

Git 1.7.5.4
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/ (homepage)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt (release notes)

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.51
free Windows anti-virus; detect and remove malware that others fail to detect
free version does *not* allow memory resident protection
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

RingoJS 0.8 RC 2
JavaScript runtime written in Java, based on Mozilla Rhino
http://ringojs.org/

Vala/Genie 0.12.1
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 *stable* branch
- many bug fixes and binding updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-list@gnome.org/msg06813.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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