Engine Updates

Maverick 0.05 (UCI)
new engine by Steve Maughan
C++ source; Win32/64
http://www.chessprogramming.net/downloads/ (download)
http://www.chessprogramming.net/computerchess/maverick-is-available-for-download/ (announcement)

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

Alex WBTM homepage down for 10 days (not found)
Bestia homepage down for 25 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down today ("webspace-user is unknown")
Denis Mendoza builds page down for 7 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Fianchetto homepage down for 25 days (502: bad gateway)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 25 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 9 days ("service temporarily unavailable")
Norbert Raimund Leisner List page down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Spark homepage down today ("webspace-user is unknown")
T-Rex homepage down for 10 days (not found)
Wing homepage down for 90 days (not found)

Toga Returns homepage, according to AVG, is infected with malware
Blackhole Exploit Kit

Wiki Changes

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Markovian: added a link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_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

Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler 8.57
free Win32 C/C++ compiler
http://www.digitalmars.com/
http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

MinGW (32-bit) Distro 10.4
open source distribution for Windows, by Stephan T Lavavej
- distro update: update to GLEW 1.10.0
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

OS4 OpenLinux 13.6
Debian/Xubuntu-based Linux distro; XFCE or KDE desktop; #13 in popularity
- this is an update for the LTS commercial version
http://www.os4online.com/

PHP 5.4.18, RC 2
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
- this is a *release candidate*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

PyPy 2.1 (Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
for Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64, & ARM
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/release-2.1.0.html (release notes)

TThrottle 7.10
free Windows laptop utility to keep CPU/GPU temperature down by throtttling performance
http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/

WordPress 3.6
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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