Engine Updates

BlitzKibitz r16 (WB)
C++ source only, no build
- fixed IDDFS bug * updated makefile run and clean
- removed time tracking from AlphaBeta - will be done in IDDFS
- fixed transposition table bug that ignored the real max depth
- upped MAX_DEPTH limit to 7
- added -Wno-deprecated to makefile to remove build clutter
- fixed IDDFS bug
- updated makefile run and clean
http://code.google.com/p/blitzkibitz/

Butterfly 0.0.7 (WB)
C++ source; Win32
- add "sd" "st" "time" "level" command (0.0.7)
- fix a bug in sort procedure (0.0.7)
- add "force" command (0.0.5)
http://sites.google.com/site/butterflychess/

Jim Ablett Win builds
Komodo 1.0 JA (UCI)
- Added Linux Intel compiler builds
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

PulCHESS 0.3a (WB)
C++ source with some Italian comments; source-code only, no build
http://github.com/morenocarullo/pulchess

NOTE: Hiarcs website announces "Deep Junior 11.1 UCI chess engine available very soon"
http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-deep-junior.htm

Chess News

ChessZone Magazine
Free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
- # 03, 2010
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Jim Ablett Win builds
Little chess evaluation compendium
by Ludmil Tsvetkov
"This is a pdf format document containing evaluation ideas &
improvements which chess programmers may find useful and of interest."
Scroll down to 'Other Chess Tools And Utilities' section
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Down/Problem chess websites
Ares homepage down for 43 days
BabyChess homepage down for 24 days
Betsy homepage down for 61 days
Bubble homepage down today
Colossus homepage down for 67 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 39 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 14 days
Lokasoft site back up after being down for 2 days

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Stan's Chess
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

Digital Mars D Compiler 1.057
free Win32 compiler for an interesting language
version 1.057 is the latest stable release; 2.040 & 2.041 are *alpha* releases
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html

GParted 0.5.2-1
open source Gnome Partition Editor- resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/ (download)

Sysinternals Suite
free trouble-shooting utilities suite from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

Meaning of Colors

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

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