Engine Updates

RumbleMinze 1.0.29 (UCI)
new engine by Erik Madsen
C# source; requires .NET 2.0 or better; requires extra dll (included)
http://www.rumbleminze.net/page/downloads.aspx

Chess News

Patrick Buchmann Thematic books
- new book: B10-19.ctg Caro-Kann
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/ctg-thematique.htm

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bubble homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
ChestUCI homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 306 days
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)

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

Game Booster 3.4
free; increases performance by temporarily shutting down background processes and maximizing available RAM
http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html (homepage)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d5952.html (download)

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.2.0.1
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE
- mostly bugfixes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/

Zero Install 1.7 for Windows
open source, decentralized cross-distribution software installation system
"Create one package that works everywhere; with dependency handling and
automatic updates" Zero Install programs are fetched at runtime the first time
and run from your cache subsequently
http://0install.net/faq.html (FAQ)
http://0install.de/?lang=en

Meaning of Colors

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

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