Engine Updates

Octochess r4741 (WB/UCI)
C++ source; Win64, Linux64
- shiny new logo
- fix endgame evaluation of KvNBK with black being the strong side
- two problems with null move heuristic fixed
- increase max search depth from 40 to 60 plies
- additional sanity checks on positions entered through FEN strings, this fixes crashes on some invalid positions
- fix incorrect wait times on Linux; this was causing calculation to stop up to one second too early, in particular affecting games with fixed move times
- UCI: take internal overhead into account when calculating the movetime deadline
- WB: Use proper move notation
- WB: Support the deprecated edit mode entered through the edit command
- UCI: mark opening positions for further processing if not in book
- code cleanup, move generic utility code into own subdirectory
- improve diagnostic output
- bookgen: improve pgn parser
- bookgen: fix stale transaction
http://octochess.org/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 422 days
GreKo homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tornado homepage down today

Wiki Changes

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Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

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- 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

Flash Player 11.4.402.265
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

Ghostery 4.0 for Chrome
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets
on every web page you visit; "See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
http://www.ghostery.com/download

JSDuck 4.0.1
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

Komodo Edit 7.1.2
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

PeaZip 4.7.1
open source cross-platform file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
- extract 150+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/4.7.1/ (4.7.1 downloads)

VirtualBox 4.1.20
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
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/000081.html (announcement)

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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