Engine Updates

GullChess II Beta (UCI)
C++ source; mp; Win32/64; Ivanhoe derivative
- multi-core support
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/

Neurone XVIII (WB)
Win32; requires .NET 2.0 or later
Fixed:
- Pv AN to LAN
- Bug in ponder which leads to a selection of incorrect move
- Bug in specific endgame (it allow too time for make move)
Add on:
- Book optimization
- Compiled according to new intel processors (speed x2 faster in this processor)
- New logo
http://www.g-sei.org/neurone-3/

Octochess r4690 (WB/UCI)
C++ source; Win64, Linux64
- Fix evaluation bug and use new eval values
- Fix bug in static exchange evaluation leading to assumed king exchange
- UCI: Fix black increment not being considered in time calculation
- UCI: Handle movestogo argument to the go command
- Fix crash in endgame evaluation
- Fix bug in hash table replacement strategy due to truncation at high search depths
- Use history based move ordering of noncaptures in search
- CECP: Tell user an error if trying to use a POPCNT enabled Octochess on a CPU not supporting that instruction
http://octochess.org/

Chess News

P2P 0.1 (WB)
new adapter by HG Muller
runs under a GUI as a WB engine, used for connecting to remote GUIs
"two humans can play each other, each having a game display"
- bugfix update for yesterday's release
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p.html (homepage)
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p.zip (Windows exe direct link)
http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p (Linux binary direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 386 days
DeepDuke homepage down for 15 days (SourceForge project page is okay)
Denis Mendoza engine builds page down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Norbert Raimund Leisner List down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Pawny homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Safrad homepage down today ("Service Temporarily Unavailable")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com 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

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012.2197
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2012

Haxe 2.10
open source, cross-platform programming language
haXe is a transpiler that can output Javascript, Flash, PHP, or C++ code (C# and Java soon)
or it can run on its own Neko virtual machine
http://haxe.org/
http://haxe.org/file/CHANGES.txt (changelog)

IKVM.NET 7.1
Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement)

Komodo Edit 7.1.0
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.0
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program; run it in addition to your usual antivirus
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/

Vuze 4.7.1.0
open source Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

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Green = Updated
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