Engine Updates

Fizbo 1.3 (WB)
mp (8 cores max); Win64
- NOTE: this version wrongly identifies itself as version 1.2
- "improvement over version 1.2 is around +80 Elo"
- improved transposition table management: fixed a bug
- reduced size of TT entry to 8 bytes
- started using TT in Q search
- TT: added prefetch
- TT: better aging
- added aspiration window
- various small modifications to search and evaluation
http://sites.google.com/site/fizbochessengine/

Gogobello 0.03 (WB)
new engine by Salvatore Giannotti
Win32/64
http://www.g-sei.org/gogobello/

Soldat III 0.178 (WB)
C source (Italian comments); Win32
- download file is called 'Tipo3_178'
http://www.g-sei.org/soldat/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Chess Programming Blogs

MadChess: http://www.madchess.net/post/procedural-code

Wiki Page 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 2.6.6 for Firefox
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Adobe Shockwave Player 12.1.4.154
allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser
(displays web content that has been created using Adobe Director)
http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer.html (shockwave homepage)
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (download)

Any Video Converter 5.7.5
Windows/Mac freeware/commercial multimedia converter
http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

PyDev 3.9.0 for Eclipse
open source Python IDE for Eclipse; can be used for Python, Jython, and IronPython development
http://pydev.org/

TCL 8.6.3
rapid development scripting language, often paired with TK GUI toolset
http://www.tcl.tk/

UltraDefrag 7.0.0
open source defrag program for Windows
- this is a tentative stable release
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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