Engine Updates

Arasan 13.4 (WB/UCI)
C++ source; own GUI, mp; Win32/64, Linux, Mac
- fixes to UCI analysis mode
- fix handling of UCI Threads option
- Arasan GUI allows changing thread count for search
- support "cores," "memory" and "egt" features in Winboard; note: Arasan command-line switches take precedence over Winboard settings
- memory for the evaluation cache is now dynamically allocated and is sized relative to the main hash table
- some changes to pruning and lazy eval logic
- fixed faulty bitbase data; fixed "eval" command to handle bitbase and tablebase probes properly
- improve UCI time management for very short time controls
http://www.arasanchess.org/

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 34 days
Damas homepage down for 73 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 163 days
Lucas Chess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)

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

JSDuck 3.2.1
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

Macrium Reflect Free 5.0.4168
Windows32/64 disk imaging; free edition has full image backups/restores only and only for private use
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Maxthon 3.3.1.2000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta
free, open source Python IDE plugin supporting CPython and IronPython; NumPy & SciPy;
parallel & clustering support; debugging; profiling; more
- this is an *beta* release
http://pytools.codeplex.com/

µTorrent 3.1 RC 9
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=105596 (3.1 forum thread)

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