Engine Updates

Rodent 0.11 (UCI)
C source; Win32; based on Sungorus code
- two-tier aspiration window
- tuning of some eval parameters
- small part of history value (used for move sorting) is carried over from previous search
- bigfix of move generation cache
http://www.koziol.home.pl/rodent_0.11.zip (direct link)

Chess News

Tony Mokonen Windows buids
SamChess-BE 1.0 (WB)
SamChess engine written by Jonathan Kreuzer
Berolina chess modifications by Tony Mokonen
Win32
- plays Berolina chess variant only
http://www3.telus.net/tmokonen/SamChess-BE.rar (direct link)

Scid vs. PC 4.7 (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
Win32, Mac & .tgz source for Linux
- added new Mac build
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (download)

Tarrasch Chess GUI V2.01a (UCI)
C++ source; open source Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- 'maintenance release'
http://www.triplehappy.com/ (homepage)
https://bitbucket.org/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui (code repository)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

ChessAlex homepage is down for 57 days
ChessOK site down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 233 days
Ktulu homepage down today (a Lokasoft site)

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

FBackup 4.6.261
free, simple backup program for personal or commercial use
http://www.fbackup.com/

Git 1.7.9.1
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/

HWINFO32/HWINFO64 3.93-1530
free system hardware information tool for Windows, system health monitoring, and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download 32-bit)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download64.html (download 64-bit)

Java 7, Update 3
update of Java runtime and development kit (JRE or JDK)
http://www.oracle.com/echnetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

JSDuck 3.5.0
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

µTorrent 3.1.2 stable (26749)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=112660 (3.1.2 forum thread)

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org