Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win builds
AliBaba 1.20wb JA (WB)
Win32, Linux32
quick fix to yesterday's release
- time control fix
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Daydreamer 1.75 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac 32/64
- several bug fixes for ctg book support. Move selection should now behave much more intuitively
- support for version 0.2 of Gaviota tablebases, which allows on-the-fly bitbase construction
- overall better behavior for threaded tablebase loading. The background thread will no longer consume
resources when not in use, and background thread loading can be disabled. Background loading has been
significantly simplified, and now uses only one thread, rather than a pool
- Windows threading support no longer requires a pthreads dll
- fixed a bug in pawn analysis
- small tweaks to search parameters
- changed verbose output format to prevent incorrect score reports in Arena
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/ (homepage)
http://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/downloads (downloads page)
http://github.com/downloads/AaronBecker/daydreamer/daydreamer-175-binaries.zip (direct link)

Jim Ablett Win builds
Slibo 0.5.5 JA (WB)
Win32/54, Linux32/64
- send mate result fix
- time control fix
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Chess News

Chess Game Report
by Jack Welbourne; Win64 only
calculates Elo performance for a single pgn game; uses Stockfish engine
http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=16085 (info)
http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/68/234068/ChessGameReport.exe (direct link)
http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/68/234068/ReadMe.txt (ReadMe.txt)

Crafty Chess Interface
A Chess GUI for Crafty with a simulated wood board by Valters Baumanis (requres VB6 run-time library)
- version 5.1 is coming soon...
http://h1.ripway.com/valters/crafty/interface.htm
http://valters-and.co.cc/crafty/gui.php

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Amundsen homepage down for 2 days
Betsy homepage down for 86 days
Blitzer homepage down for 21 days
Brama homepage down for 13 days
Colossus homepage down for 92 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 64 days
Dika homepage down for 14 days
Gosu homepage down for 19 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 38 days
Sjakk homepage down today

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Tytan
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 crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Cobian Backup 10.0.2.689
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

CodeLite 2.5.0.4025
excellent open source cross-platform IDE for all C/C++ compilers. Recommended
Features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion, function call tips, etc.
http://codelite.org/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/codelite/files/ (download)

LameXP 3.1.8 hotfix-1 (2010-04-02)
open source graphical front-end for the LAME MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Nero AAC audio encoders
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#lamexp

RJ TextEd 6.20 beta 1
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
this is a *beta* release
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm (homepage)
http://www.rj-texted.se/download.htm (download page)

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

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