Engine Updates

Ghost 2.0.1 (WB)
Win32, Linux32/64
http://www.ghostchess.de/

Ivanhoe 999954 (UCI)
Ippolit derivative; mp; the version numbers, annoyingly, count down instead of up
http://www.chesslogik.com/ivanhoe.htm

Vajolet 0.34.2 (UCI)
1 new revision(s) to the C# source code (revisions= 46), no new build
http://code.google.com/p/vajolet/updates/list

News about Ifrit (translated by Google):
"The next version is released only if it will be about a hundred points stronger than the current one.
So, either the next version will be stronger, or it will not do."

Chess News

CCC Moderator Election
Steve Blincoe, Bob Hyatt, Fernando Villegas, (alt Ted Summers) elected overwhelmingly
and without opposition
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=361120&t=35376

JavaPairing 1.6
open source chess pairings manager for Swiss events
- yesterday's release files have been changed, re-download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapairing/ (project page)
http://javapairing.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 596)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Scid vs. PC 4.0 (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
- not new, I missed the announcement on July 3
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html

Strategic Test Suite
epd testsuites by Swaminathan and Dann Corbit
- added test #11: Activity of the King
- added test #12: Center Control
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex homepage down for 82 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 87 days (Permissions problem)
Bearded homepage down for 3 days
CuckooChess homepage down for 9 days
Feuerstein homepage down for 22 days (probably dead)
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (78 days)
SDChess homepage down for 8 days, but the narod site is up
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage back up
Pyotr homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Myrddin
- updated: Section "Tournament Highlights, OpenWar 7"
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index

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

Fantom 1.0.54
open source language resembling Java & C#; code is portable to JVM, .NET CLR, or JavaScript
this cool OO/imperative/functional/concurrent language is relatively unknown
http://fantom.org/

Scala 2.8.0
a powerful OO, imperative/functional jvm language for professional programmers w/actors for concurrency
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/43 (changelog)
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads (download)

Vala/Genie 0.9.3
the Vala language resembles C# and the Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala + download)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie)
http://code.google.com/p/valide/downloads/list (Vala/Genie + IDE for Windows)

Meaning of Colors

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

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