Engine Updates

Gnuchess5 5.07.173b (WB/UCI)
C source; FRC; Win32/64, Linux32/64 & Android
"I measured a gain of about 30 Elo"
- added support for Fischer Random Chess (Chess960)
- new commands: perft, perftdiv, perftmc
- bitbase for KBPK with wrong bishop and pawn on 6th rank. There are some strange positions there. The bitbase is extracted from Gaviota Table Bases
- refactor epd parsing
- solvests command for scoring the STS test suite
- new option: "RandomizeEval"
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/gnuchess-release/

Ifrit m1.1 (UCI)
C++ source (Russian language comments); Win32/64, Linux 32/64
- added mobility figures (mobility) and an attack on the king
- adjusted futility
- corrected coefficients estimates
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fandchess2006.narod.ru%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ru&tl=en

Chess News

WinBoard 4.5 for JAWS
this is a special edition of Winboard for the sight-impaired
- updated to support open source NVDA screen reader
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528#p196784

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 84 days
GreKo homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Matacz homepage down for 52 days (a 110mb.com site)
Pyotr homepage down for 6 days

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

Akka 1.2
open source library for Scala or Java languages gives developers a simpler programming model
to develop highly reliable asynchronous, non-blocking applications for concurrent or parallel
operation using Actors, STM & Transactors; multi-core scalable and fault-tolerant
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

GParted Live 0.9.1-1
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Hamster Free Video Converter 2.0
converts from/to: 3GP, MP3, MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV, MPEG, FLV, HD, DVD, M2TS and others
http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com/en/

PeaZip 4.0
open source file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP
- extract 134 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)

Process Hacker 2.22
open source; examine & manipulate running Windows processes & services
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

SQLite 3.7.8
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "quarterly maintenance release"
- ORDER BY and GROUP BY operations should now be faster
- does a better job of handling the DISTINCT keyword on SELECT statements
- VFS (SQLite OS portability layer) enhanced
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)

System Explorer 3.2.0
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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