Engine Updates

Nebiyu 1.2 (WB)
Win32; supports chess variants; programs for Checkers, Go, Reversi & Amazons too; extra games require Winboard 4.5
http://dshawul.googlepages.com/home

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.215 (WB/UCI)
chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
- can now run STS testsuite
http://www.chessgui.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

ChessZone Magazine
free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
- # 3, 2011
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Fritz 12 GUI (UCI)
commercial
- new update
http://www.fritzserver.org/updates/gui12.exe (direct link)

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new PGN program: tagRemove - removes all instances of a user-specified tag, with the exception of the "Event" tag
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bearded homepage down for 30 days
Brutus homepage down for 29 days
Fianchetto homepage down for 60 days
Frenzee homepage down for 205 days (webpage down until new engine release)
Genesis homepage down for 58 days
Sorgenkind homepage down for 71 days
Usurper homepage down for 70 days
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

Glary Utilities 2.33.0.1158
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security, etc.
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

GNUplot 4.4.3
open source, cross platform, command-line driven, 2D/3D graphing/plotting
http://www.gnuplot.info/ (homepage)
http://www.gnuplot.info/announce.4.4.3 (announcement)

Iron Python 2.7
free, open source Python for .NET/Mono; use Visual Studio or MonoDevelop for easy development
Windows: requires .NET 4.0 or Silverlight 4; Linux: requires Mono 2.10.1 / MoonLight
- includes all Python 2.7 language features, several new modules, performance improvements, and bug fixes
http://ironpython.net/ (homepage)
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/54498 (release notes)

SumatraPDF 1.4
free, open-source minimalistic PDF reader for Windows; it is a portable app
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

Vala/Genie 0.10.4
the Vala language resembles C# and the Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
- this is the *stable* branch
- bug fixes and binding updates
http://www.mail-archive.com/vala-list@gnome.org/msg06672.html (announcement)
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)
http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.11/ (compiler source code)

Meaning of Colors

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

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