Engine Updates

NirvanaChess 1.2 (UCI)
Win32/64
- "over 200 elo stronger than Nirvanachess 1.1"
- optimized code to search faster
- hash entry size reduced from 32 to 16 bytes
- better time management
- endgame improvements
- improved evaluation
- more pruning
- fixed several bugs
http://nirvanachess.blogspot.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/download/pvwst8n69j9ztx4/Nirvanachess_1.2.rar (direct link)

Chess News

Scid vs PC 4.10 Chess GUI (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
Win32/64, Mac & .tgz source for Linux
- only the Windows version is ready
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (downloads)

Shokidoki Yokohama version (WB)
plays chess variants: mini-, Judkins and regular Shogi
http://hgm.nubati.net/sdkY.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 31 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 46 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 22 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 46 days (502 error: bad gateway)
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Hamsters homepage down for 10 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 10 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 46 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 30 days (a multimania site)
SharpChess2 homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Spark homepage down for 22 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 14 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 31 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 111 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

Chess Logos List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added 2 more Graham Banks logos: MangoPaola & Maverick
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_logos_list

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

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

Antergos 2013.08.20
Arch-based, rolling-release Linux distro; GNOME, Cinnamon, Razor-qt & Xfce desktops; #28 in popularity
- formerly known as Cinnarch
http://www.antergos.com/

ID3 Renamer 5.5.0
free utility to bulk-rename music files
http://www.id3renamer.com/en

NetBSD 6.1.1
BSD_based Linux distro; desktops: AfterStep, Awesome, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #85 in popularity
http://www.netbsd.org/

Perl 5.18.1
popular open source scripting language
http://www.perl.org/ (homepage)

PHP 5.5.3 Stable
PHP 5.4.19 Stable
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

PostgreSQL 9.3, RC 1
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
- this update is a *release candidate*
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1478/ (announcement)

WinPython 2.7.5.3 -- for Win32/64
WinPython 3.3.2.3 -- 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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org