Engine Updates

Philou 3.71 (UCI)
Win32/64
- "Some little changes and i hope i have corrected the bug with the threads and % of microprocessor use."
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Philou.html (Leo page)

Quazar 0.4 (UCI)
Win32/64
- added many evalution terms
- strength increased approximately 300 ELO point relative to 0.3 version
https://sites.google.com/site/chessquazar/

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated PGN database: topCCRL.pgn
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 241 days

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Sigma Chess moved to 'Discontinued / Faulty / Incomplete' section
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_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

avast! Free Antivirus 7.0.1407
free antivirus for Win32/64; the program is registerware: you must divulge your email address
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

CCleaner 3.16
free registry and file optimization/privacy/cleaning tool; thorough and effective: recommended
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (CCleaner homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2012/2/23/ccleaner-v316 (announcement)

DragonFly BSD 3.0.1
a cutting-edge Linux distribution based on BSD 4, enhanced with a high performance
HAMMER journaling filesystem; virtual kernels that are inherently deadlock-free; more
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ (homepage)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/ (unique features)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release30/ (release notes)

Git 1.7.9.2
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/

Ruby 1.9.3-p125
popular scripting language, often used with Rails library
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Scala.NET 2012_02_22
Scala is a powerful OO, imperative/functional .NET/Mono language for professional programmers w/Actors for concurrency
- this project is in alpha stage, still with a lot of Java baggage
- there seems to be daily releases, so I will only list updates monthly
http://lamp.epfl.ch/~magarcia/ScalaNET/ (homepage)
https://github.com/magarciaEPFL/scaladotnet/downloads (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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