Engine Updates

Maverick 0.2 (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64
- "I think it's at least 100 Elo better than version 0.11"
- fixed hash routine bug
- fixed general search bug
- added known endgame knowledge
http://www.chessprogramming.net/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 25 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 40 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 16 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 40 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 4 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 4 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 40 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 24 days (a multimania site)
ROCE homepage down today ("insufficient system resources")
Spark homepage down for 16 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 8 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 25 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 105 days (not found)

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

Adblock Plus 1.5.4 for Chrome and Opera
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Calibre 0.9.44
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/

MariaDB 10.0.4 Alpha
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- I don't usually list alpha/beta databases, but this one is interesting due to the inclusion of multi-source replication
- "do not use alpha releases on production systems"
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.4/ (MariaDB 10.0.4 page)

PHP 5.5.2 Stable
PHP 5.4.18 Stable
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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