Engine Updates

Capa 0.1 beta 2 (WB)
1 new commit(s) to the Java source, (rev = 121), no new release
- update-manager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/capa/

Pawny 0.1.7 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64
- reset timer on ponderhit conception was fixed; false by default
- fixed pondering to do infinite analysis until the stop command is received
- Evaluation:
--- added center control weights
--- Rook and Knights material imbalance tables
--- new (higher) Knight value
--- added code for KBNK simple mate
- movegen: new legal evasions generator
- move ordering: KxB and BxK are now considered as equal captures
- UCI option ‘Ponder’ added in order to invoke ‘ponderhit’ in GUI’s (like Fritz 11) with no default support of it
- better polling
- several code cleanups (like removing the annoying ‘illegal position’ hack from qsearch())
http://pawny.netii.net/

Protector 1.3.2 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 229), no new build
- search change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News

Norm Pollock 40H PGN utilities
'Adjustments to "gameSimilar" and "gameNum" to avoid some conflict issues
when used in conjunction with other "40H" programs.'
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem chess websites
Ares homepage down for 38 days
BabyChess homepage down for 19 days
Betsy homepage down for 56 days
Colossus homepage down for 62 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 34 days
Frank-Walter homepage down for 3 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 9 days
Amundsen homepage back up after being down for 10 days

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Sorgenkind
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

MPlayer 2010-03-02
open source media player for Windows
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

Notepad2 4.1.24
open source Notepad replacement based on Scintilla w/ sytax highlighting for many languages
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html (homepage & downloads)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/ (project page)

Opera 10.50
open source web browser, most standards-compliant rendering
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

System Explorer 2.1
free; detailed info about tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows, services, drivers,
connections and opened files; performance graphs monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

NOTE: Python programmers: this recent blog post is interesting
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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