Engine Updates

Atlas 2.90 (UCI)
Win32/64, mp
- rewrite of the program total death of HDD with the code version 2.20 without backup: (Murphy's Law)
- for lazy, has only been re-implemented the UCI protocol (WB support dropped)
- rewrite the code to use bitboards
- basic introduction prunning MRLs and futility
- implementation of pruning in the quiensce SEE
- implementation of the hash table for laborers in the evaluation
- obviously, we have implemented a new opening book format
- ability to book while opening the configuration, size of hash tables by the UCI protocol
- basic support for multiprocesaror (SMP) -- 2 cpus max
http://sites.google.com/site/atlaschess/ (new homepage in Spanish)
translated to English by Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&a...

Bullucks removed from the Chess Engine List; it does not support WB or UCI

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Jim Ablett homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
BabyChess homepage down for 58 days (404: page not found)
Bestia homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds -- 110mb.com page)
BBChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bubble homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds -- again!)
Frenzee homepage down for 291 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Gromit homepage down today (URL not found)
Loop homepage down for 39 days (it seems that Loop is a Fruit clone!)
Mscp homepage back up
Pos 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
- expanded Kvetka comment
- improved links for XBoard
- expanded BabyChess comment
- expanded/improved ChessVU comment
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

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner 2.7
free registry cleaner; clean and repair incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

Groovy++ 0.4.250 1.8.0
this is an extension to the standard Groovy jvm language; it supports better runtime efficiency
- due to updates that happen too often and lack of interest in this language, I am not reporting any futher updates for this language; please email me if you want coverage to continue
http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/downloads/list

LibreOffice 3.3.3 RC 1
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/ (download)

Speccy 1.11
free system information tool
http://www.piriform.com/speccy (homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2011/6/6/speccy-111 (announcement)

VLC 1.1.10
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video)
http://www.videolan.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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