Engine Updates

Carballo 0.4 (UCI)
18 new commit(s) to the source, (rev = 91), no new build
it looks like version 0.5 will be released soon!
- 74: bug in draw detection, new option to get last piece recaptured,one more interface to see and a method to verify if a pawn is a passed pawn
- 75: better support for pgn comments
- 76: options to optimize move generation on quiescence
- 77: great bug on history tabl overflow; added a method to verify if a move is killer
- 78: small refactoring, no changes on evaluation on Carballo 0.5
- 79: the NEW search engine (PVS) for Carballo 0.5
- 80: transposition table for eval, and now on upper/lower bounds stores fail soft (score)
- 81: reset searched value before search
- 82: for experiments
- 83: new config options on Carballo 0.5
- 84: resets value before search
- 85: new transposition table algorithm
- 86: test used to find draw detection bug
- 87: new test winning chess sacrifices
- 88: new POM fro version 0.5
- 89: improved tournament tests
- 90: applet for version 0.5
- 91: a space
http://sourceforge.net/projects/carballo/ (sourceforge)
http://www.alonsoruibal.com/dev/chess/ (homepage)

Redqueen 0.5 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 280), no new build
- 280: bug fixes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.184 (WB/UCI)
a nice chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
- fixes a recently introduced bug in Chess960 Swiss tournaments
- "Alternate Colours" in Swiss tournaments will now play double rounds in each cycle, alternating colours.
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/
http://biglion.110mb.com/

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 64 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 69 days (Permissions problem)
Feuerstein homepage down for 4 days (probably dead)
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (60 days)
Shredder homepage back up
Zappa Mexico homepage back up

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

Firefox 3.6.6
open source browser. Recommended!
- modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

ID3 Renamer 3.2.1
free utility to rename music files
http://www.id3renamer.com/

Task Coach 1.0.6
open source cross-platform todo manager with task or calendar viewing
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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