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Chess News

Droidfish 150 for Android
port of Stockfish to Android platform + chess GUI
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/index.html

ExaChess [Pro] 4.5 Beta 3 for Mac (UCI)
commercial chess database program with built-in Fruit 2.1 engine
there is a free, severely disabled 'Lite' version too
claimed compatability with Crafty, so it might support WB engines too
- this is a *beta* release
http://exachess.com/

Freeware-Schach 3.30 Chess GUI (UCI)
new chess GUI + engine by Rolf Radke
Win32
- not really new, but new to me
- engine only plays within supplied GUI (not standalone)
http://www.freeware-schach.de/eindex.html

Jesús Muñoz statistical/probability tools
6 Elo/LOS programs with Fortran source code
- program updated: Probabilities_in_a_trinomial_distribution
- added the cumulative distribution function
- raise the limit up to 50,000 games
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5c9e8m3vk6zq50/Six_Fortran_95_tools.rar (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down for 14 days (403 error: forbidden)
Belofte homepage down for 59 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChessMind homepage down for 5 days (not found)
Dolphin homepage down for 57 days (not found)
Elf homepage down for 11 days ("domain name expired")
InmiChess homepage down for 54 days (no response in 60 seconds)
JavaRival homepage down for 21 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Power Chess PGN Databases page down for 2 days (not found)
Pyotr homepage down for 54 days (not found)
Wing homepage down for 6 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Freeware Schach
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- removed Free Chess Board Game for Windows
- added Freeware Schach
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_engine_list

PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Chess Editor
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list

Play Chess Online List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Icarus: updated links
- added Kasia
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:play_chess_online_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 2.2.4 for Firefox
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Avira AntiVir Personal 13.0.0.3640 Free
free; highly-rated antivirus product with very annoying pop-up ads accompanying virus signature updates
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Blender 2.67
free, open source, cross-platform 3D content creation suite
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
http://www.blender.org/

Haxe 3.0.0, RC 2
open source, cross-platform programming language
haXe is a transpiler that can output Javascript, Flash, PHP, or C++ code (C# and Java soon)
or it can run on its own Neko virtual machine
- this is a *release candidate*
http://haxe.org/
http://haxe.org/file/CHANGES.txt (changelog)

Network Scanner 5.4.11
free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports &
displays shared network resource types
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

Soluto 1.3.1238.0
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)

Vuze 5.0.0.0
open source Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

WinPython 3.3.1.1 -- for Win32/64
WinPython 2.7.4.1 -- for Win32/64
open-source portable distribution of Python for Windows32/64
allows use of different Python versions that are fully isolated from each other
WinPython is the easiest way of getting Spyder IDE working on Win32/64
NumPy, SciPy and Matplot are also included
- this is a large file to download (more than 200 MB)
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/

Meaning of Colors

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

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