Engine Updates

Glass 1.6 (UCI)
Win32
- more parameter tuning, especially reducing agression
- history heuristic applied to late move reduction
- defining engine strength (600-2400 Elo)
- new: 21 personalities of varying strengths
http://www.marittima.pl/glass

Redqueen 0.5 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 300), no new build
- 300: code clean up
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

JavaPairing 1.6
open source chess pairings manager for Swiss events
http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapairing/ (project page)
http://javapairing.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new EPD program: epdSort - sorts the lines of an epd file
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex homepage down for 81 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 86 days (Permissions problem)
Bearded homepage down for 2 days
CuckooChess homepage down for 8 days
Feuerstein homepage down for 21 days (probably dead)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down for 3 days
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (77 days)
Pyotr homepage down for 3 days
SDChess homepage down for 7 days, but the narod site is 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

Cobian Backup 10.1.0.789
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Free Studio 4.8
free conversion from/to: DVD/CD, video & audio files; burn DVDs/CDs
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

HWiNFO32 3.55-838
free system hardware information tool, system health monitoring and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download)

Komodo Edit 6.0.0 beta 2
Free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
this is a *beta* release
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

PyPy 1.3 (Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT, no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
- Windows binaries are now available
http://pypy.org/

RJ TextEd 6.53
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm (homepage)
http://www.rj-texted.se/download.htm (download page)

µTorrent 2.0.3 beta (build 20516)
open source BitTorrent client
this is a *beta* release
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=78100

Meaning of Colors

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

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