Engine Updates

Dirty 08Apr2013 (WB)
Win32/64, Linux64
- changes in both search and eval
- seems to be about +32 Elo compared to previous version
- there are reports that Windows compiles won't work unless the correct version of MSVCR110.dll is present
http://www.dirtychess.com/

Chess News

Jesús Muñoz statistical/probability tools
6 Elo/LOS programs with Fortran source code
- program updated: Probabilities_in_a_trinomial_distribution
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5c9e8m3vk6zq50/Six_Fortran_95_tools.rar (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 29 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 24 days (a 110mb.com site)
Denis Mendoza homepage down today (a homeunix.org site)
Dolphin homepage down for 27 days (not found)
FreeChess homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
GreKo homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Ifrit homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 24 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Nejmet homepage down for 2 days (a multimania.fr site)
Norbert Raimund Leisner List page down today (a homeunix.org site)
OBender homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
Pyotr homepage down for 24 days (not found)
SDChess homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
SmarThink homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
Strelka homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 24 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down today (a multimania.fr site)
Typhoon homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Uralochka homepage down today (a narod.ru site)
WildCat homepage down today (a narod.ru site)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- José: added another link
- Scid: added two more links
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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

ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.7
excellent open source antivirus scanner, does not include an on-access real-time scanner
http://www.clamwin.com/

CrystalDiskInfo 5.5.1
open source hard drive monitoring/warning/alarm system using SMART technology
http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en

PCLinuxOS 2013.04
independent, rolling-release Linux distro; KDE desktop; #8 in popularity
http://www.pclinuxos.com/

Soluto 1.3.1174.0
free; uses community-developed power-user solutions to fix your Windows PC problems
http://www.filehippo.com/download_soluto/ (download)
http://www.soluto.com/ (homepage)

Vala/Genie 0.20.1 Stable
Vala language resembles C# and Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
- this is a bugfix update to the *stable* branch
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-devel-list@gnome.org/msg00040.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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