Engine Updates
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Chess News

ChessGUI 0.227 (WB/UCI)
chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
-Robbobases support greatly improved
http://www.chessgui.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Lantern Chess 4.34 (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB & UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac
http://www.lanternchess.com/ (homepage)
http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html (help)

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new EPD program: epdPosition - is used in conjunction with the excellent utility tool "pgn-Extract" by David Barnes. Together they can perform a position search in a "pgn" file.
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 41 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 8 days (a 110mb.com site)
Smaug homepage down for 12 days
Superchessengine homepage down for 55 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)
Bubble homepage back up
Vicki homepage back up

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- participants list for next edition updated
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

RSSOwl 2.1.1
open source, cross-platform Java RSS newsreader
http://www.rssowl.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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