Engine Updates

Daydreamer 1.7 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac 32/64
- Gaviota tablebase support
- Polyglot book support (.bin)
- Chessbase book support (.ctg)
- Revamped material imbalance code, move ordering, and king safety
- Endgame scaling for draw-ish endgames
- Heavily retuned search, with new pruning and depth reduction/extension schemes
- Lots of new evaluation terms
- Numerous bugfixes and optimizations
- New debugging and support routines
http://github.com/downloads/AaronBecker/daydreamer/daydreamer-17-binaries-release.zip (direct link)

Jim Ablett Win builds
Daydreamer 1.7 JA (UCI)
for Win32/64 & Linux32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Philou 3.1.4.1 (UCI)
Win32
- time bug fixed
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Philou.html

Protector 1.3.3 (UCI)
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 246), no new build
- search & eval change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News
Nothing new found

Down/Problem chess websites
BabyChess homepage down for 35 days
Betsy homepage down for 72 days
Blitzer homepage down for 6 days
Colossus homepage down for 78 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 50 days
Gosu homepage down for 5 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 24 days
Tarrasch homepage back up

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
changes by Norbert Raimund Leisner -- welcome back!
- added Raptor
- fixed some links
- moved some GUIs to Discontinued / Faulty / Incomplete Chess GUI List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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 2.042 alpha
free Win32 compiler for an interesting language
version 1.057 is the latest stable release; 2.042 is an *alpha* release
this is an *alpha* release
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html

System Explorer 2.1.3
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/

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

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