Engine Updates

BeRoChess 1.00.2012.04.10.0049 (WB/UCI)
Win32/64; mp
- the 32-bit version works for me using WinXP64
http://www.rosseaux.net/ (homepage)
http://www.rosseaux.net/downloads/ (download)

DoubleCheck 3.2 (UCI)
C source; Win64, Linux64
- eval: increase rook on (semi)open file bonus, when on the enemy's king file
- eval: added a tempo bonus
- search: margin for eval pruning now increases faster with depth
- search: fixed my lame razoring code: thanks to Martin Sedlak and Marco Costalba for suggesting this
- qsearch: divided by 2 the futility margin
- qsearch: SEE pruning only at non PV nodes
- qsearch: fixed an error in evasion pruning
- bench: increased depth of test positions
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DoubleCheck.html (Leo page)

Grizzly 2.07x (WB)
Win32
- first update since 2002!
http://www.slengo.de/index.php/de/grizzly-de

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Octochess r4558 JA (WB/UCI)
Win3264, Linux32/64
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/octochess-r4558-ja.zip (direct link)

Chess News

Chess for Android 3.1.7 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
- pgn parsing made less stringent (pgns don't have to be perfect)
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 287 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

GIMP for Windows 2.8.0 RC 1
Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP); retouch photos, create drawings & renderings, etc.
- Win32/64
- installer automatically removes GIMP 2.6
http://www.gimp.org/
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html (scroll to bottom)

GPartEd Live 0.12.1 Stable
GPartEd Live 0.12.1-1 Testing
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

JSDuck 3.8.4
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

MariaDB 5.3.6 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- this is an update to an older version
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-536-release-notes (release notes)

Notepad++ 6.1
open source programmer's editor; recommended
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

phpMyAdmin 3.5.0
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Task Coach 1.3.12
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Wise Disk Cleaner 7.19
free; nagware; finds and deletes temporary/log/junk files from your PC
http://www.wisecleaner.com/wisediskcleanerfree.html

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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