Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Dabbaba 5.00 wb JA (WB)
C source; Win32
- no Linux build this time
http://jimablett.net63.net/

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Octochess r4452 JA (WB)
C source; Win64
- this version is for older 64-cpus without the POPCNT instruction
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/octochess-r4452-win64-intel-ja.zip (direct link)

Denis Mendoza Win64 builds
Rodent 0.12 DM (UCI)
C source; Win64; based on Sungorus code
- AMD64 and Intel64 PGO builds
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Denis%20Mendoza/

Chess News

Arasan Test Suite 14 draft
a very good epd test suite (175 positions)
- silent update today
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.arasanchess.org/arasan14.epd

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
"Games from 2001 to 2011"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Cecir homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
CSBoard homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 248 days
Michel Van den Bergh site down for 3 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added another link for: Nalimov online database for web query
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_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

Avant Browser 2012, Build 27
free web browser designed to expand Internet Explorer features
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Cobian Backup 11.0.0.408
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

GCC 4.6.3
open source Gnu C/C++ Compiler for Linux
includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages
http://gcc.gnu.org/

Maxthon 3.3.5.1000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

PHP 5.4.0 Stable
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language mostly used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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