Engine Updates

Ares 1.003a (UCI)
Win32
- quick bugfix: "testing suggests is worth 42 Elo"
http://www.thorstenczub.de/ares.html
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Ares.html

ChessBin 0.0.5.9 (WB)
chess engine by Adam Berent requires .NET 2.0; own GUI
http://www.chessbin.com/page/Download-Chess-Bin-Chess-Game.aspx

Chesster rev. 5 (WB)
new engine by Anton Emelyanov; Java source; Win32
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesster/

Daydreamer 1.6 (UCI)
C source; Win32, Mac32/64
"significantly stronger"
- Chess960 support
- multiPV support
- ponder support
- Scorpio bitbase support
- improved futility pruning
- razoring
- aspiration in root search
- weak square identification
- open and half-open file identification
- pawn storm bonuses
- improved fidelity to uci specifications
- revamped move ordering
- improved time management, and improved behavior at very fast time controls
- improved search behavior in positions with short mates or obvious moves
- fixed a bug that caused losses on time in some sudden death situations
- fixed a bug that prevented a hash size over 2GB
- fixed a bug that caused crashes in very long games (over 250 moves)
- fixed a bug that allowed incorrect en passant moves while in check
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer (source code only)
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/downloads (downloads)

KMT Chess 1.2 (WB)
C++ source (Spanish language comments); Win32/64 uses BookThinker
"About 100-150 ELO stronger"
- pondering capable
- Polyglot opening books compatible
- piece values changed
- pawn evaluation improved
- search depth improved in endgames
- king goes into the battle earlier in the game
- fixed a nasty bug that allows occasional calls to quiesce() when in-check
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmtchess/
Dann Corbit Win64 (x64) build
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/kmtchess64.exe.bz2

OBender 3.2.x build 9.x (WB)
shareware; Win32
http://evgeniy-korniloff.narod.ru/obender/obender.html

OliThink 5.2.4 (WB)
C source & Java source; own GUI (Java version only); Win32/64, Linux32/64
- ponder rewite
http://home.arcor.de/dreamlike/chess/index.html

Luzhin 0.1 (WB)
new engine by Anton Emelyanov; Java source; Win32
http://code.google.com/p/luzhin/downloads/list

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Luzhin 0.1 JA (WB) for Win32
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjzndg0w0wq (direct download)

RobboLito 0.085g3 (UCI)
Win32/64, Linux 32
- bishop/knight evaluation fix
- ponder bug fixed
- time management changes
- BTF removed
- code cleanup
- code translation
http://www.cyclonechess.com/robbolito.htm

Kenny Dail Mac builds
- Chess0 0.3.2-mac KD (WB) for Mac
- GNUChess 5.07.9b-mac KD (WB) for Mac
http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/

Note: Gray Matter is *not* updated! Only wiki pages (text descriptions) were changed

Down/Problem chess websites
ElTurco site down today
Prophet site down today
Smash site down today (again)
Smirf site down for 61 days
WildCat site back up
Warning: Lyapko site is an attack site and dangerous to visit

Chess News

XBoard (Linux32) for Debian
this is an *alpha* release
- adds feature: show pv
- adds feature: show move target squares
http://hgm.nubati.net/xboard_4.devel~hgm-6_i386.deb (direct download)

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

7-Zip 9.10 beta
open source file archiver with very good compression. Recommended.
this is a *beta* release
http://www.7-zip.org

AVG Anti-Virus 9.0.722
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection. Recommended.
32-bit program that runs on all modern Win systems including Win64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
direct download link (link is hard to find!)
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-file-ins-afg-free

BORG Calendar 1.7.3
free desktop calendar/task-tracking; appointments, todo list, project tracking, etc
http://mbcsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=38 (homepage)
http://mbcsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=43 (features)
http://mbcsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=50 (screenshots)

GIMP 2.6.8
Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP); retouch photos, create drawings & renderings, etc.
http://www.gimp.org/

IntelBurnTest 2.4
free utility to torture-test your cpu and monitor stability
very useful utility for overclockers
http://ntcompatible.com/IntelBurnTest_2.4_s138507.html

Recuva 1.34
free program to recover deleted files from Recycle Bin, digital cameras, mp3 players etc.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

µTorrent 2.0 Release Candidate 2
open source BitTorrent client
this is a *release candidate*
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=65482 (info)
this is a direct link to the latest *release candidate*
http://download.utorrent.com/2.0/utorrent.exe

WinMerge 2.13.10 Experimental
open source diff program
this is an *experimental* release (alpha release)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/files/5.%20Experimental%20builds/

Meaning of Colors

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

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