Engine Updates

iCE 0.1 build 1120 (UCI)
new engine by Thomas Petzke
Win32; own GUI; iCE = 'improved chess engine'; successor to the mACE engine
http://www.fam-petzke.de/chess_home_en.shtml (homepage)
http://macechess.blogspot.com/ (blog)

mACE II 0.22 (UCI)
engine (formerly private) by Thomas Petzke
Win32, own GUI; replaced by iCE engine
http://www.fam-petzke.de/cp_download_en.shtml (download)
http://macechess.blogspot.com/ (blog)

Supra 1.1.7a (UCI)
Win32; separate Win32 build for Windows 7
http://suprachesssystem.com/

Chess News

JavaScript Chess Library
JavaScript source code by Jeff Hlywa
https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- PGN program bugfixed: tagFix - there is a serious bug
- PGN programs updated: cleanElo, cleanTag, cleanUp, eloDist, summary, tagFix, tagList, tagExtract, tagRemove
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bearded homepage down for 47 days
Brutus homepage down for 46 days
Frenzee homepage down for 222 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Sorgenkind homepage down for 88 days
Typhoon homepage down for 14 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 87 days (no response in 60 seconds)

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

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011 (build 1209a3533)
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free (homepage)
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh (download)

JSDuck 0.5
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

Meaning of Colors

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

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