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<title>Update Information: June 8, 2012</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Saturday, June 09, 2012, 01:28:</em></p><p><p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Engine Updates</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Capivara LK 0.08a11 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
C source (older versions); Win32/64; TSCP derivative; requires VC runtimes unless using alternative version<br />
- added Win32-bit build to download file<br />
<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fvivaxadrez.wikispaces.com%2FCapivara">http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&a...</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Supra 11.4 (UCI)</span></strong><br />
Win32/64<br />
- new 64-bit version 10-20% faster on 64 bit systems<br />
- improving the reliability of negative and positive float filter<br />
- new Turbo search: when activated allows SUPRA use a method of searching a bit faster by staged increments of alpha<br />
- corrected error of evaluation sent to the GUI arena (error reported by Shahinjy)<br />
- fix a small error in the analysis of a tie by drowning the enemy king<br />
<a href="http://suprachesssystem.com/">http://suprachesssystem.com/</a> (English)<br />
<a href="http://www.suprachesssytem.com/">http://www.suprachesssytem.com/</a> (Portugese)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Chess News</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Numpty@NR (WB)</span></strong><br />
plays Nightrider chess variant<br />
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/numptychess/">https://sites.google.com/site/numptychess/</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Down/Problem Chess Websites</strong></span> <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /></p>
<p>Akiba homepage down today<br />
Armageddon homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)<br />
Chad's Chess homepage down for 40 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)<br />
Dann Corbit homepage down for 347 days<br />
Mustang homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)<br />
Polish engine list homepage down today<br />
Tony Mokonen download page down for 11 days (Tony's engine site is fine)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Wiki Changes</strong></span></p>
<p>Nothing new today</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Bonus Notifications</strong></span> (recent releases of free stuff)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Warnings:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color:#f00;">- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.<br />
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected<br />
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash<br />
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Calibre 0.8.55</span></strong><br />
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,<br />
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer<br />
<a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">http://calibre-ebook.com/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Greenshot 1.0.0.1914 Unstable</span></strong><br />
free, open source screenshot capture program for Windows<br />
- this is an unstable (*beta*) release<br />
<a href="http://getgreenshot.org/">http://getgreenshot.org/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Immunet Protect Free 3.0.6.8523</span></strong><br />
Cloud-based antivirus that can used in addition to your regular antivirus<br />
<a href="http://www.immunet.com/free/index.html">http://www.immunet.com/free/index.html</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Maqetta Preview 6.01</span></strong><br />
open source visual authoring system of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser<br />
this is a *preview* version (beta)<br />
<a href="http://maqetta.org/">http://maqetta.org/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Maxthon 3.3.9.2000</span></strong><br />
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins<br />
<a href="http://www.maxthon.com/">http://www.maxthon.com/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Process Explorer 15.20</span></strong><br />
displays information about which Windows handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">PyPy 1.9 (Python)</span></strong><br />
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;<br />
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);<br />
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy<br />
Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64<br />
&quot;The ... average of all [PyPy] benchmarks is ... 5.52 times faster than CPython&quot;<br />
- performance improved roughly 4% on average since the previous release<br />
- PyPy 1.9 implements Python 2.7.2<br />
- Win64 binaries are *not* available<br />
<a href="http://pypy.org/">http://pypy.org/</a> (homepage)<br />
<a href="http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html">http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html</a> (announcement)</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Meaning of Colors</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#f00;">Red = New or Warning</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#090;">Green = Updated</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color:#555;">Gray = Info Only</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#555;">NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.<br />
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org</span></strong></p>
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