Engine Updates

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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 33 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 28 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 31 days (not found)
FreeChess homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
Ifrit homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down for 14 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 28 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Mustang homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
OBender homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
Pyotr homepage down for 28 days (not found)
SDChess homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
SmarThink homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
Strelka homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 28 days (a 110mb.com site)
Typhoon homepage down for 6 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Uralochka homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)
WildCat homepage down for 5 days (a narod.ru site)

Wiki Changes

Chess Logos List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Graham Banks logo for NirvanaChess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_logos_list

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- updated link for Lomonosov Tablebases 7 men
- added more links for SyzygyBases
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_list

Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Haundrix Chess for Crafty, GNUchess and Sjeng
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_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

Calibre 0.9.23
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

ClearOS 6.4.0
RedHat-based Linux distro; GNOME, KDE desktops; #61 in popularity
http://www.clearfoundation.com/

Firefox 20.0.1
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

GCC 4.6.4
open source Gnu C/C++ Compiler for Linux
includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages
- this is a bugfix update for the older 4.6 series
http://gcc.gnu.org/ (homepage)
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/ (grouped 4.6.x announcement)

Groovy 2.1.3
open source jvm dynamic scripting language; it is a superset of the Java
language http://groovy.codehaus.org/ (homepage)

Miro 6.0
open source HD video player with 6,000+ free Internet TV shows
http://www.participatoryculture.org/

Speccy 1.21
free Windows system information tool
http://www.piriform.com/speccy (Speccy homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2013/4/12/speccy-v121 (announcement)

SQLite 3.7.16.2
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- bug fix release
- fix a rare and obscure bug on Windows
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_16_2.html (changelog)

VirtualBox 4.2.12
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)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (changelog)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

VLC Media Player 2.0.6
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video)
http://www.videolan.org/

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

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