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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Friday, December 09, 2011, 00:45:</em></p><p><p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Engine Updates</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Sting SF 1.0 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Stockfish clone except for &quot;good sacrifices&quot; change<br />
- source code only!<br />
- &quot;Sting seems to be stronger than Stockfish&quot;<br />
<a href="http://www.free.of.pl/c/ccintorun/g/sting.rar">http://www.free.of.pl/c/ccintorun/g/sting.rar</a> (direct link)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Supra 8.2 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32<br />
<a href="http://suprachesssystem.com/">http://suprachesssystem.com/</a> (English)<br />
<a href="http://www.suprachesssytem.com/">http://www.suprachesssytem.com/</a> (Portugese)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Chess News</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Lucas Chess 6.1</span></strong><br />
&quot;play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor&quot;<br />
<a href="http://lucaschess.host22.com/">http://lucaschess.host22.com/</a> (homepage)<br />
<a href="http://lucaschess.host22.com/novedades.htm">http://lucaschess.host22.com/novedades.htm</a> (changes)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Down/Problem Chess Websites</strong></span> <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /></p>
<p>Asterisk homepage down for 35 days<br />
Damas homepage down for 74 days (&quot;Free Web Hosting Discontinued&quot;)<br />
Dann Corbit homepage down for 164 days</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Wiki Changes</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Chess Engine List</span></strong><br />
- Bibi: moved from Retreated Engine List back to main Chess Engine List<br />
- Fruit: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- GambitFruit: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- Movei: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- Naum: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- Patzer: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- Smash: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
- Toga II: added SuperChessEngine link<br />
<a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Bonus Notifications</strong></span> (recent releases of free stuff)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Warnings:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color:#f00;">- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.<br />
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected<br />
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash<br />
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">MySQL Community Server 5.5.19</span></strong><br />
free (Community Server Edition only!), and very popular open source SQL database<br />
<a href="http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/">http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/</a> (download)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">PHP 5.4.0 RC 3</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">PHP 5.3.9 RC 3</span></strong><br />
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language mostly used for web applications<br />
- both new versions are *release candidates*<br />
<a href="http://php.net/">http://php.net/</a> (homepage)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">µTorrent 3.1 stable (build 26591)</span></strong><br />
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client<br />
<a href="http://www.utorrent.com/">http://www.utorrent.com/</a> (homepage)<br />
<a href="http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=109914">http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=109914</a> (3.1 forum thread)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Meaning of Colors</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Red = New or Warning</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">Green = Updated</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#555;">Gray = Info Only</span></strong></p>
<p>Engine List: <a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list</a><br />
Chess News: <a href="http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list">http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.<br />
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org</span></strong></p>
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