Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win builds
AliBaba 1.18wb JA (WB) for Win32 & Linux32
- better time management (adjusts for book moves)
- better King safety
- implemented search tree pruning
- tuned eval
- added Linux compiles
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

ArabianKnight 0.99 (WB)
Java source; own GUI; Win32
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html

Counter 1.2 (UCI)
Win32
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm

Jim Ablett Win builds
GNUchess 5.07.9b JA (WB) for Win32/64 & Linux32/64
- added Linux compiles
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
Kurt 271009 JA (UCI) for Win32/64 & Linux32/64
- added Linux compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
MsKcp 1.4.4 JA (WB) for Win32 & Linux32
- added Linux compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
SCP/GnuChess 2.03 JA (WB) for Win32/64 & Linux32/64
- added rook detection code (castling)
- added Linux compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
Sungorus 1.2 JA (UCI) for Win32 & Linux32
- added Linux compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
ZZZZZZ 3.5.1 JA (WB) for Win32 & Linux32
- fixed epd loading bug
- added Linux compile
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Chess News

WinBoard 4.4.3 pre-release beta
project source code:
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xboard.git;a=snapshot;h=62cce84e4a26fb3ac850f482cbcb082e5d3bf731;sf=tgz
bare winboard.exe only:
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-CCT12.zip

Winboard/XBoard for Mac ('MacBoard'!?)
this is a build of the latest alpha by 'Darklord42' announced at the Winboard Forum
- 3 releases during the last 3 days
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zomemnkyytm/Xboard4.20100211.dmg (direct link)

Down/Problem chess websites
Ares homepage down for 18 days
Betsy homepage down for 37 days
Colossus homepage down for 43 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 15 days
Lyapko utilities homepage down for 3 days
Omar homepage down for 6 days
Protej homepage down today
Typhoon homepage down for 21 days
Amyan homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Junior
- added saTRanc
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

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 occasionally crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Chrome 4.0.249.89
open source browser from Google, fastest rendering of the major browsers
http://www.google.com/chrome

Flash Player 10.0.45.2
Adobe's popular animation viewer for browsers
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

.NET Framework 4, beta 1
Microsoft's virtual machine that Windows runs on
this is a *beta* release, perhaps interesting to hard-core .NET developers
new feature: simplified & enhanced multi-threaded programming model
"write efficient, fine-grained, and scalable parallel code in a natural idiom without
having to work directly with threads or the thread pool"
"performance improvement including better multicore support"
C# and VB languages have added new capabilities, many more enhancements
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx (download)
new features/improvements list
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9ef9a95-58d2-4e51-a4b7-bea3cc6962cb&displaylang=en

OpenOffice 3.2
open source word processing, database, chart, math formula editor, spreadsheet, etc. Recommended!
- biggest new feature is support for ODF file format, lots of other improvements
http://www.openoffice.org/ (homepage)
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/ (new features)

Opera 10.50, beta 1
open source web browser, most standards-compliant rendering
this is a *beta* release with new features, it may crash
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Trillian 4.1.0.24
free cross-platform chat supporting Windows Live, Yahoo, MySpaceIM, AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, IRC, more
http://www.trillian.im/

Wireshark 1.3.3
open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for advanced users
http://www.wireshark.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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