Engine Updates

Rotor 0.8 (UCI)
Win32, Mac, Android
- modified transposition table
- tuned mobility evaluation
- changed null move reduction factor R to 3
https://sites.google.com/site/chessrotor/

Chess News

Cutechess-cli sf (WB/UCI)
an open-source, cross-platform commandline interface to run engine-engine games
Win32, Linux32/64
I have no idea what 'sf' might be, but the files been updated
sf = SourceForge? StockFish? Semi-Final version?
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-sf-linux32.tar.gz (Linux32)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-sf-linux64.tar.gz (Linux 64)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-sf-win32.zip (Win32)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akkad homepage down for 84 days (not found)
Belofte homepage down for 2 days ("this site has been suspended")
Bestia homepage down for 22 days (a 110mb.com site)
Comet homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Deep Saros homepage down for 84 days (not found)
Delphil homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
GreKo homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities page down for 22 days (a 110mb.com site)

Warning: Inmi site has been hacked and is unsafe to visit
AVG antivirus: 'Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit [type 2371]'
Kaspersky antivirus: 'object is infected'

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- Spin Chess removed from Source Code Only List, all code repositories have been removed
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

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

Adblock Plus 1.4 for Google Chrome
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

HWINFO32/HWINFO64 4.14-1880
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)

MariaDB 5.5.30 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra DB engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-5-5-30-now-available/ (annoucement)

Perl 5.16.3
popular open source scripting language
http://www.perl.org/ (homepage)
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.3/pod/perldelta.pod (changes)

Thunderbird 17.0.4
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org