Engine Updates

Neurone VI (WB)
Win32/64; requires .NET 3.5 or later
- this release is for Win32 only
Fixed:
- Output log
- King safety
- Format of help command
- Some good moves are discarded from the analysis
Add on:
- New popup message type
- Better recognition of the opponent moves
- Many small optimizations in the positional calculation
- Max depth = 5 (reached in some endgame with a few pieces on the board)
- Hawkeye function optimized
- Splash screen activated by Neurone_config.exe
- Manage speed tester directly from Neurone_Config.exe
- Max depth is 5
- 5% Speed improvement
- Better internal ram management
- Noxboard command (back in graphics mode)
- New logo
http://www.lissandrello.it/?p=524#

Chess News

Lantern Chess 3.88
Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB & UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac
http://www.lanternchess.com/ (homepage)
http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html (help)

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 70 days (404: page not found)
Frenzee homepage down for 303 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Superchessengine homepage down for 6 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Bestia homepage back up
Bubble homepage back up
ChessMind homepage back up
Lyapko Utilities homepage back up
Matacz homepage back up
Tony's Chess homepage back up
Vicki homepage back up

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

CrystalDiskInfo 4.0.2
open source hard drive monitoring/warning/alarm system using SMART technology
http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en

Data Crow 3.9.9
free, open source media manager/cataloger for movies, books, music, software, etc.
http://www.datacrow.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/datacrow/ (project page)

Eclipse SDK 4.1 RC 5
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-4.1RC4-201106042201/index.php (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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