Engine Updates

Texel 1.02 (UCI)
C++ source; Win64, Linux64, Android; (replaces CuckooChess)
- custom Windows builds by author for AMD Phenom 2 OS XP-64
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89684995/texel102-athlon64-sse3-ctz.exe (direct link)
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89684995/texel102-athlon64-pop.exe (direct link)

Chess News

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
Olivier updates this collection monthly
"Games from 2001 to 2013"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

AdaChess homepage down for 21 days ("account has been suspended")
Armageddon homepage down for 45 days (403 error: forbidden)
JavaRival homepage down for 52 days (no response in 60 seconds)
PowerChess PGN Databases page down for 33 days (not found)
Wing homepage down for 37 days (misconfigured server)

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

MinGW (32-bit) Distro 10.2
open source distribution for Windows, by Stephan T Lavavej
- distro update: update to GCC 4.8.1
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

ROSA 2012 R1
Mandriva-based Linux distro: GNOME & KDE desktops; #30 in popularity
http://www.rosalinux.com/

Vala/Genie 0.20.1 with GTK+ 3.6.4 for Win32
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 the *stable* branch
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)
http://www.tarnyko.net/en/

Zorin OS 7
Ubuntu-based Linux distro; GNOME or LXDE desktop; #12 in popularity
http://www.zorin-os.com/

Meaning of Colors

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

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