Engine Updates

Coiled 0.1a (UCI)
by by Oscar Gavira
Win32, Linux32
- this engine is part of of the Hispanic engine pack
http://www.oscargavira.es/?sec=Coiled_Informacion (information only, no download)

Hispanic chess engines pack #18
a grouping of the latest Hispanic-heritage chess engines using a modified version of Winboard
- available in English (Chess_18) or Spanish (Ajedrez_18.zip)
- 47 engines in total
- new engines: MangoPaolaAjedrez 1.0 and Coiled 0.1a
- updated: Atlas 3.50, Kitteneitor 0.22.1, Rethoric 1.0, DanaSah 5.07, Carballo 0.8, Rodin 6.0 and Dirty 20Apr2013
https://sites.google.com/site/motoresdeajedrez/motores-hispanos/elo (engines & Elo)
https://sites.google.com/site/hispanicchessengines/

MangoPaola 1.0 (WB)
by José Andrés Morales Linares
C source; own GUI; Win32, Linux
http://mangocomputerca.blogspot.com.es/

NG-Play 8.5 (WB)
C source; Win32
- optimizations in search, move generation and evaluation functions
- added perft routine
- added resign option
http://users.otenet.gr/~yggeorgo/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 23 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 38 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 14 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 38 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 2 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 2 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 38 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 22 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 14 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 23 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 103 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- updated pages: face, participants, download
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added: Chess Free, Chess Lite, Chess Mini for iOS, and Chess Pro
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_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

MinGW (32/64-bit) Distro 11.1
open source, cutting-edge distribution for Windows
- distro update: now contains SDL and SDL_mixer 2.0.0
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

Vuze 5.1.0.0
open source Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

Meaning of Colors

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

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