Engine Updates
Nothing new today

Chess News

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on the 46,334 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

Kvetka 3.12 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
- GUI updated
- plugin "Windows service" updated
http://kvetka.org/en/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bubble homepage down for 6 days (this site is down more often than up)
Damas homepage down for 6 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 96 days
GreKo homepage down for 16 days (a 110mb.com site)
Ildtiadar homepage down for 9 days

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

Paint.NET 3.5.9
very nice free image and photo editing software (paint program); recommended
http://www.getpaint.net/

Ruby 1.9.3 RC 1
popular scripting language, often used with Rails library
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Meaning of Colors

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

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