Engine Updates

Philou 3.60 (UCI)
Win32
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Philou.html (Leo page)

Chess News

Komodo2 for Android
Aart Bik's UCI engines for Android
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/2011/06/komodo2-for-android.html (announcement)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html (download)

Kvetka 3.10 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
- GUI updated as well as plugin "Options"
http://kvetka.org/en/

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- renamed program: epdAdvantage (formerly epdMaterial)
- new program: epdImbalance (extracts records with material imbalance)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Winglet tutorial
A step-by-step guide for writing and improving your own bitboard chess engine by Stef Luijten
- Stef continues writing his C++ tutorial
http://www.sluijten.com/winglet/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 56 days (404: page not found)
Bubble homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Firefly homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Frenzee homepage down for 289 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Loop homepage down for 37 days (it seems that Loop is a Fruit clone!)
Mscp homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Bestia homepage back up
Loop clone evidence:
http://open-chess.org/download/file.php?id=351

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

ADO.NET 2.6.5 for Firebird SQL Database
C# .NET data provider; provids high-performance, native Windows implementation of the Firebird API
http://www.firebirdsql.org/ (Firebird homepage)
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/ado-net-provider-for-firebird-version-2-6-5-released-10345/ (announcement)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.6.5/ (download)

Eclipse 3.7 RC 4
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.7RC4-201106030909/index.php (download)

Scala IDE 2.0.0 Beta 5 with Scala 2.9.0.1 for Eclipse 3.6
Eclipse plugin supporting the Scala programming language
Scala is a powerful OO,imperative/functional jvm language for professional programmers w/Actors for concurrency
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.scala-ide.org/
http://www.scala-ide.org/2011/06/scala-ide-beta-5-available/ (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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