Engine Updates

Supra 12.0 (UCI)
Win32 (older releases supported Win64)
- new move generator more efficient to ordering the children of each node
- detected and corrected compatibility error between vertical filter and deep memory
- simplification of positional matrices allowing faster analysis especially on finals
- improved capacity for analysis of draw positions (improvement requested by shahinjy)
- better time management
- sending evaluation to GUI configurable (improvement requested by shahinjy)
- other smaller corrections
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 415 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Monarch homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Superchessengine site down today (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 4 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

Adobe Reader 10.1.4
free PDF viewer
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows (Windows download)

Flash Player 11.3.300.271
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

VirtualBox 4.2.0 RC 1
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)
https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2012-August/000080.html (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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