Engine Updates

Arabian Knight 1.30 (WB)
Java source; own GUI; mp
- small bug in king safety check fixed
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html (Leo page)

Neurone X (WB)
Win32 only; requires .NET 3.5 or later
- fixed bug that creates crash in Card Game
- optimized the code linked to the slider pieces
- rook on seventh row recognition
- rook position according to bishop recognition
- added bonus for king not blocked by his pawns
- new logo
http://www.lissandrello.it/?p=524#

Chess News

Jim Ablett Android builds
use these engines in Aart Bik's 'Chess For Android' Chess GUI
- Arasan 13.1 JA (WB/UCI)
- Smaug 2.21 JA (UCI)
scroll down Jim Ablett page to: Android chess engines
http://jimablett.hostwebs.com/

Chess Engine GUI 0.2 Build 1070 (UCI)
Chess GUI; "works with both iCE and mACE engines"
http://www.fam-petzke.de/chess_home_en.shtml

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on the 45,912 PGN games
"Games from 2001 to 2011"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bubble homepage down today (down yet again)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 66 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 33 days (a 110mb.com site)
Mizar homepage down for 2 days
The King (ChessMaster)homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added new links for Fianchetto, Fruit & Smaug
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Chess Engines
- added link to Engine Download List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:index

Engine Download List
- added Fianchetto
- added Fruit 2.1 for Linux/Android
- added Smaug 2.21
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list

Smaug page
- added Linux/Android builds
- reformatted the page
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:smaug:index

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added links for latest Winboard 4.6.0 pre-release
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

Drupal 7.8
open source PHP-based content management platform for websites
http://drupal.org/home

Firefox 6.0.1
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

LibreOffice 3.4.3
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/ (download)

Opera 11.51
open source web browser: the most standards-compliant rendering
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Puppy Linux 'Wary 5.1.4.1'
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
Puppy is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users. Recommended.
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
- this is a quick bugfix for yesterday's release
- "Wary Puppy is intended to be our on-going commitment to older hardware."
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.1.4/release-Wary-5.1.4.htm (announcement)
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news & download)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)

Scala 2.9.1
a powerful OO, imperative/functional jvm language for professional programmers w/Actors for concurrency
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10780 (changes)

SeaMonkey 2.3.2
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Thunderbird 6.0.1
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/6.0.1/releasenotes/ (release notes)

Meaning of Colors

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

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