Engine Updates

Chiron 1.5 (UCI)
commercial, FRC, Win32/64; mp; multiPV; '.zi' file must be renamed to '.zip' before extracting
- "about 30 Elo points stronger than Chiron 1.1a"
- improvements in both search and evaluation functions
- pawn blockage code was not handling correctly en-passant captures (thanks to R. Vida)
- hash table memory allocation was not working correctly when more than 2GB was set
http://www.chironchess.com/index.php/

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Flip4IT 01 JA (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/flip4itengine-01-ja.zip (direct link)

Houdini 3, Update 1 (UCI)
commercial; Win32/64; mp; multiPV; FRC; limit strength; supports Nalimov & Gaviots EBTBs and Scorpio bitbases; a reworked Robbolito with many improvements
- minor bugfix for older cpus without popcount instruction
http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 9 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 494 days
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down today (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 9 days (a 110mb.com site)
Norm Pollock site down for 4 days (no response in 60 seconds)
O'Chess homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Powder homepage down for 8 days (project removed?)
Pulsar homepage down for 7 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 9 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

Avast! Free Antivirus 7.0.1474
free antivirus for Win32/64; the program is registerware: you must divulge your email address
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Komodo Edit 7.1.3
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

LibreOffice 3.6.3
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
Note: OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
Note: there is a newer 3.6 branch available
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

OpenBSD 5.2
Independent distro based on BSD; desktops: AfterStep, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #80 in popularity
http://www.openbsd.org/

Perl 5.16.2
popular open source scripting language
http://www.perl.org/ (homepage)
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.2/pod/perldelta.pod (changes)

Tiny Core Linux 4.7
independent distro based on Damn Small Linux; desktops: Fluxbox, flwm, Hackedbox, IceWM, JWM; #36 in popularity
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/

Meaning of Colors

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

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