Engine Updates

AdroitChess 0.3 JA (UCI)
new engine by Daniel White
C source; Win32, Android; requires dll: cygwin1.dll (included)
https://gitorious.org/adroitchess (project + source)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/adroitchess-03-ja.zip (Win32 + Android builds)

ChessKISS 1.5a (WB)
Pascal (Delphi) source; Win32/64
- engine now checks if PopCnt is available (that stop the engine crashing on machines with no SSE4)
- endings are not longer based on strings but on hash
- beta hits updated the history entries
- move generator can Traverse() tweek a bit, it could discard valid moves
- PV is new unit, not used yet
- killers updated when a bet cache is hit
http://meandmybits.blogspot.com/ (blog)

Supra 10.0 (UCI)
Win32
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)

Julien Marcel Mac64 builds
- Amundsen-080
- Beowulf-24a
- Betsabe-II-109
- Daydreamer-175
- Dendron-042b
- Diablo-051
- Giuchess-10-beta2
- Glaurung22
- HanzoTheRazor-1111
- Jester-084
- Joanna2002-106
- Kurt-092.2
- Ms(k)cp-145
- Olithink-530
- Protector-140
- Sloppy-023
- Toga2-141se
- Toga2-312se
- Vanillachess-26g
http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Aristarch homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Asterisk homepage down for 93 days
Bestia homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
ChessAlex homepage is down for 46 days
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 222 days
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Rick48 homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Lists Page
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- updated Jim Ablett link
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:index

Macintosh Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added AliBaba, FairyMax, Ippolit, & micro-Max
- added link for Chesley the Chess Engine, Faile, GreKo, Gullydeckel, MSCP, Phalanx, RattateChess, & TSCP
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added DeepBrutePOS
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_engine_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

LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC 3
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/ (download)

Linux Mint 12 KDE
very popular Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1927

Waterfox 10.0
64-bit version of Firefox browser
- first time listed here
http://waterfoxproject.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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