Engine Updates

LittleThought 1.051 (UCI)
Win32/64; mp; FRC
- fixed several Chess960 bugs (FRC)
- fixed display of illegal move error msg
http://www.kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littlethought.php

Mainsworthy 162f (WB)
C++ source; Win32; own GUI (GUI for native use only, no other WB or UCI
engines); T (tournament) version is for long time control only
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html

Chess News

Gaviota Endgame Tablebases Probing Code 0.2.2
Miguel Ballicora's open source probing code for engine programmers (in C language)
- new "restarting functions" tb_restart() and tbcache_restart() were added. If the user changes the conditions (paths etc.) while the program is running, these function will re initialize the tablebase probing code.
- Aaron Becker contributed in his source code fork with a Makefile to produce a static library in Linux. I just borrowed it Smile Thanks!
- the example tbprobe.c code was modified to make it a bit more clear and the new functions were incorporated
http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/Home/releases/gaviotatablebasesprobingcode022update

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Amundsen homepage down for 3 days
Betsy homepage down for 105 days
Blitzter homepage down for 40 days
Brama homepage down for 32 days
Colossus homepage down for 111 days
Dika homepage down for 33 days
Gosu homepage down for 38 days
Lovelace homepage down today
Nesik homepage down for 17 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 57 days
Tony's Chess homepage down for 7 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage back up after being down for 7 days
Tony's Chess homepage back up after being down for 6 days

Wiki Changes

Macintosh Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- corrected a link and a comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list

Clone Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added FireBird
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:clone_engine_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Tankist
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_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

Chrome 4.1.249.1059
Google open source browser; the fastest of all the browsers
http://www.google.com/chrome

Cobian Backup 10.0.2.719
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

PC Wizard 2010 - 1.94
free utility to detect & benchmark all PC hardware & system components
Good tool for deciding hardware upgrades. Portable version available
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

USBDeview 1.65
free utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

Vala/Genie 0.8.1 alpha
this project is the most significant C language development in a long time
the Vala language resembles C# and the Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
this is *alpha* software, not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala + download)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie)

VLC media player 1.0.6
open source multimedia player (audio/video)
No binaries for Win or Mac yet
http://www.videolan.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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