Engine Updates

Julien Marcel Mac64 builds
new Mac compiles
- Crafty 23.6
- Eia 0.1
- Octochess r5178
- Sting SF 130131
- StockFish 2.3.1
- Vice 1.0
http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/Chess_on_Mac/Engines.html

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 35 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 50 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 26 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 50 days (502 error: bad gateway)
GreKo homepage down for 5 days (a 110mb.com site)
Hamsters homepage down for 14 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 14 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 50 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 34 days (a multimania site)
SDChess homepage down for 2 days (not found)
SharpChess2 homepage down for 7 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Spark homepage down for 26 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 18 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 35 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 115 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- ChessX: added a link
- SCID: added 3 links
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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

CCleaner 4.05
free Windows/Mac registry and file optimization/privacy/cleaning tool; thorough and effective
uninstalls programs, system restore, drive wiper, controls startup programs, context menus, etc
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2013/8/26/ccleaner-v405 (announcement)
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (CCleaner homepage)

Clonezilla Live 2.1.2-43 Stable
open source system image backup/restore (Live) or multicast new system images (SE)
http://clonezilla.org/
http://clonezilla.org/news.php (release notes)

FBackup 5.0.182
free, simple backup program for personal or commercial use (Windows only)
http://www.fbackup.com/

Haxe 3.0.0
open source, cross-platform programming language
Haxe is a transpiler that can output Javascript, Flash, PHP, or C++ code (C# and Java soon)
or it can run on its own Neko virtual machine
http://haxe.org/
http://haxe.org/file/CHANGES.txt (changelog)

Manjaro Linux 0.8.7
Arch-based distro; desktops: Openbox, Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, Xfce; #8 in popularity
http://manjaro.org/

SQLite 3.8.0
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- new next generation query planner
- added support for partial indices
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_0.html (changelog)

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