Engine Updates

Cheng 4.0.35 (WB/UCI)
smp; FRC; Win32/64, Linux64, Mac64; Gaviota egtbs
- lazy smp
- lockless hashing
- no longer an open source engine
- "the entire engine has been rewritten from scratch"
- "somewhat stronger than my previous engine Cheng3 (20-40 Elo)"
http://www.vlasak.biz/cheng

Hannibal 1.4b (UCI)
Win32/64; mp; supports Polyglot book format
- fixed illegal moves bug from Polyglot book
http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 64 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 79 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 55 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 79 days (502 error: bad gateway)
GreKo homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Hamsters homepage down for 43 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 43 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 79 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 63 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 55 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 64 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 144 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- WB2UCI: fixed a link
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

ActivePerl Community Edition
free cross-platform Perl distribution including the most popular Perl libraries
- Perl 5.18.1.1800
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.175
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

FrostWire 5.6.5
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

Jenkins 1.533
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server (developer tool)
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Password Safe 3.32
open source encrypted password database utility; a single key unlocks all passwords
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ (project)
http://pwsafe.org/ (homepage)

phpMyAdmin 4.0.7
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Meaning of Colors

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

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