Engine Updates

Arabian Knight 1.29 (WB)
Java source; mp; own GUI
- small bug fixed. When there was a lot of material (for example 3 or more quens) it could exchange material too easly for position - it was very rare but fixed
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html (Leo site)

Dirty 25AUG2011 (WB)
Win32/64
- ponder mode bug fixed
http://www.dirtychess.com/

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

ChessMind homepage down today
Dann Corbit homepage down for 60 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 27 days (a 110mb.com site)
Monik homepage down for 6 days ("le blog ... n'existe pas")
Smaug homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.

Wiki Changes

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Arabian Knight
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

Aptana Studio 3.0.5 Beta
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp and more
- this is an optional *beta* update
http://www.aptana.com/

CCleaner 3.10
free registry and file optimization/privacy/cleaning tool; thorough and effective: recommended
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (CCleaner homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2011/8/25/ccleaner-310 (announcement)

Freemake Video Converter 2.3.4
convert 200+ video formats; cut/join/scale video; rip & burn DVDs; burn Blu-rays, upload to YouTube; more
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

NetWorx 5.1.9
free network traffic (bandwidth) monitor & usage reporting w/ real-time graphs
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

PyPy 1.6 (Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
"The ... average of all [PyPy] benchmarks is ... 4.3 times faster than CPython"
- PyPy 1.6 implements Python 2.7.1
- Windows 32-bit binaries are now in beta
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-16-kickass-panda.html (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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