Engine Updates

Critter 1.4 (UCI)
mp; FRC; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac, Android
- "stronger by 20 +/- 15 Elo points [against Critter 1.2]" -- Kai Laskos
http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/

Chess News

Cutechess-cli 0.5.0
an open-source, cross-platform commandline interface to run engine-engine games
Win32, Linux32/64, Mac64
- Windows32 and Mac64 builds added
- bugfix: repetitions are not played directly from opening books
- negative numbers are not interpreted as parameter names
- new "restart" mode: by setting the restart mode the user can control whether or not an engine is restarted between games.
- bugfix: set the UCI_Opponent option with correct syntax
- "infinite" is no longer combined with "depth" or "nodes" in UCI "go" command. Now the "go" command should be compatible with all UCI engines.
- support for XBoard's "nps" command. The implementation was designed to work in combination with an infinite time control (which won't be sent to the engine). Using other time controls is not recommended. Also, the engine must support the "nps" command.
- the "cmd=" engine option accepts relative file paths
- Round-Robin tournaments with two or more engines
http://repo.or.cz/w/sloppygui.git (source)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-linux32.tar.gz (Linux32)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-linux64.tar.gz (Linux64)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-win32.zip (Win32)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-osx.zip (Mac64)

Scid On The Go 1.24 for Android
Scid database browser ported to the Android by Gerhard Kalab
http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 54 days
ChessAlex homepage is down for 7 days
Damas homepage down for 93 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 183 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

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.1.0.0
an excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE
- "this is the first version to fully support 64bit MinGW compilers"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/

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