Engine Updates

CCCP 10105 (WB)
TSCP derivative by Pawel Koziol
- CCCP == "Comparatively Complex Chess Program"
not new, but new to me
http://www.marittima.pl/cccp

Chess News

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on the 44,766 PGN games
"Games from 2001 to 2011"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 84 days (404: page not found)
Bubble homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 6 days (broken computer!)
DreamChess homepage down today (PHP parse error)
Frenzee homepage down for 317 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Superchessengine homepage down for 20 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Matacz homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Private Engine List
- added Nemo
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_list

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

Task Coach 1.2.22
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Thunderbird 5.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/5.0/releasenotes/ (release notes)

µTorrent 3.0 (build 25422)
open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=98500 (3.0 forum thread)

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
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