Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Beowulf 2.4a JA (WB)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64; limit strength
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Booot 5.0.0 (UCI
Pascal source (Russian language comments); Win32
- UCI only now; WB protocol support dropped
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Booot.html

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Redqueen 0.6 JA (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Protector 1.3.5 (UCI)
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 328), no new build
- search change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/

Chess News

Crafty Chess Interface 6.0
VB source; chess GUI for Crafty with nice wood board by Valters Baumanis (requres VB6 run-time library)
- includes Crafty 23.3
http://valters-and.co.cc/crafty/gui.php
http://h1.ripway.com/valters/crafty/interface.htm

Pavel Háse testsets
a) twic - last two years human games, average (50 variants)
b) index - Rabar ECO index, 5 parts, 10 chapters .. (50 variants)
c) gambit - compensation ever, no decline offer (50 variants)
d) exotic - rarity (for computer) variants and odd figur (example Na3, Kh2, or handicap move after 1.Nf3 d5 2.Ng1 ...) (50 variants)
e) handicap - whitout rook, notin, bishops or pawns. And four uncorrect variants. (32 variants)
f) lfrc18 - subset FRC960 for normal engines, Kings and Rooks ever on ground fields (18 variants)
http://www.chesspraga.cz/engine-turn/testsets/ph-testsets2010.rar (direct link)

STS Stat 3.1
utility by Philippe Gailhac for calculating engine analysis scores using STS & Arena
- displays time used and rated time
- fixed a minor bug
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/sts-stat
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/sts-stat/STSStat3.1.zip

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Frenzee page down for 8 days (permissions problem)
Aristarch homepage back up
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage back up
Pyotr 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 4.0 beta 4
open source browser. Recommended!
this is a *beta* release
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html (beta page)

HWiNFO32 3.58-913
free system hardware information tool, system health monitoring and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download)

Lunascape 6.3
free browser with all 3 major rendering engines: IE (Trident)+Firefox(Gecko)+Chrome/Safari (Webkit)
preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

Miranda IM 0.9.0
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

Python 2.6.6
popular open source scripting language
http://www.python.org/ (homepage)
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/ (more info)

SeaMonkey 2.1 alpha 3
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
- this is an *alpha* release
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

µTorrent 2.2 'Griffin' beta (build 21409)
open source BitTorrent client
this is a *beta* release
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=76840

Meaning of Colors

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

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