Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Protector rev. 370 JA (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Protector 1.3.5 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 371), no new build
- added some opening book pgn files to the project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/

Redqueen 0.6 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 415), no new build
- 415: minor changes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

Fritz 12 GUI (UCI)
commercial, update for existing customers
http://www.fritzserver.org/updates/gui12.exe

Kvetka 3.7.1 Chess GUI (UCI)
intended for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

Harry Schnapp books
Opening Books for Arena, ChessBase, Aquarium & Shredder Classic
- HS-Grandbook.abk updated (Arena book)
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/hsbook.htm

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Frenzee homepage down for 56 days (permissions problem)
NSVChess homepage down for 10 days (403 error: forbidden)
Aristarch homepage back up
ChessMind homepage back up

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

Opera 10.63
open source web browser: the most standards-compliant rendering
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Parted Magic 5.6
open source partition editor, virus/rootkit scanner, hard drive cloner, and hard drive & RAM tester. Recommended!
http://partedmagic.com/

Python 3.2 alpha 3
popular open source scripting language
this is an *alpha* release
http://www.python.org/ (homepage)
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/ (more info)

RJ TextEd 6.81
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm (homepage)
http://www.rj-texted.se/download.htm (download page)

Meaning of Colors

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

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