Engine Updates

Delphil 2.9f (UCI)
Win32; mp
http://delphil.perso.neuf.fr/English/index_e.htm

Deuterium 12.01.30.1070 (WB)
Win32/64; supports Polyglot books
- time control bug fixes
- modify search prunning and reductions
- modify search extensions
- some parts in move generation and evaluations are now using bitboard
- modify move ordering
- use staged move generation for winning capture and hash moves
- added support for polyglot book
- modify deuterium.ini file
http://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/downloads-1 (scroll to bottom)

Eia 0.1 (UCI)
new engine by Nikita Kurgin
C++ source; Win32
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm (SDChess)

Mediocre 0.5 (UCI)
Java source
- silent update, no version number change
- defective opening book replaced
http://mediocrechess.sourceforge.net/ (project)
http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/ (blog)

Chess News

icsdroneng 0.26
interface between an xboard chess engine and an ICS (Internet Chess Server); UCI engines are supported by using Polyglot adapter
original icsdroneng program written by Henrik Gram, now maintained by Michel Van den Bergh
- this is a source-code-only release
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icsdrone/files/

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
Olivier updates this collection monthly
"Games from 2001 to 2012"
- 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

Bestia homepage down for 5 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 401 days
DeepDuke homepage down for 30 days (SourceForge project page is okay)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 5 days (a 110mb.com site)
Mscp homepage down for 4 days
Smash homepage down for 5 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 5 days (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

Aptana Studio 3.2.1
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

BitComet 1.33
free peer-to-peer file-sharing for Windows32/64; compatible with BitTorrent
http://www.bitcomet.com/

BitTorrent 7.7.0 (build 27644)
freeware; the original bit torrent program
http://www.bittorrent.com/

Cobian Backup 11.2.0.580
free multi-threaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

HWINFO32/HWINFO64 4.02-1700
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)

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

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