Engine Updates

Fire 2.0 xTreme (UCI)
C source; mp; Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
"likely no big ELO increase"
- now supports up to 64 cores/threads
- occasional crash fixed
- code improvements, bitwise optimizations
- SEE piece/capture values are no longer constant entities
- fire.cfg incorrect default value for Prune_Pawn fixed: Prune_pawn = 160
- now recognizes if the system supports hardware popcount and/or large pages, and self-configures itself accordingly
- some code cleanup, formatting, and re-organization
- more complete Log implementation
- UCI clear hash button added
- etc
http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//fire.htm

Supra 1.2.1 (UCI)
Win32
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/

Chess News

Lantern Chess 3.93 (WB/UCI)
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 78 days (404: page not found)
Bestia homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Frenzee homepage down for 311 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Superchessengine homepage down for 14 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Tony's Chess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)

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

System Explorer 3.0.1
free; detailed info about wINDOWS tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graphs monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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