Engine Updates

iCE 0.2 Build 1085 (UCI)
Win32; own GUI; iCE = 'improved chess engine'; successor to the mACE engine
- bugfix release for running Win32 engine on Win64 systems
http://www.fam-petzke.de/chess_home_en.shtml (homepage)
http://macechess.blogspot.com/ (blog)

Source Code Only Engine Updates

GnuChess6 6.0.1 (UCI)
C++ source code only, no build yet
"The first version of GNU Chess was written by Stuart Cracraft. Fabien Letouzey is the primary author of GNU Chess 6,
which is based on Fabien's chess engine Fruit 2.1."
- 'solveepd' could make the program crash for long analysis time
- allow kibitz for the 'solve' command
- minor modifications in INSTALL
- if gnuchess.ini is not found, report error before prompt
- actually open the book after 'book on'
- 'book add' crashed on some platforms due to a wrong calculation of the book file name length
- remove some unused code
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/ (info)
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess (download)

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated: GrandS - PGN database; collection of long time-control games between players rated 2425+,
2007-present. 53508 games, 1313 players. Minimum 16 games and minimum 25% score for each player.
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 72 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 40 days (a 110mb.com site)
SDChess homepage down today (Internal Server Error)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- changed BabyChess link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Engine Download List
- added BabyChess
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_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

Maxthon 3.1.7
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

Programmer's Notepad 2.3
open source programmer's editor and lightweigt IDE with syntax highlighting
- this is a *stable* release
http://www.pnotepad.org/
http://www.pnotepad.org/download/ (download)

Vala/Genie 0.13.4
Vala language resembles C# and Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
this is the *developmental* branch (beta)
- switch gudev-1.0 bindings to .gir
- switch mx-1.0 bindings to .gir
- many bug fixes and binding updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-list@gnome.org/msg07767.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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