Engine Updates
Nothing new today

Chess News

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 68 days (404: page not found)
Bubble homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
ChessMind homepage down for 2 days (empty page)
Frenzee homepage down for 301 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Superchessengine homepage down for 4 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Delphil homepage back up
Houdini 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

PHP 5.3.7 RC 1
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language for web applications
- this is a *release candidate*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

VLC 1.1.10.1
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video)
http://www.videolan.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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