Engine Updates

Hannibal 1.2 (UCI)
Win32/64
-search improvements
-eval improvements
http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal

Chess News

Chess for Android 3.1.8 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bubble homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Chad's Chess homepage down today (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 308 days
FirstChess source code page down today
Geko homepage down for 2 days (this Google site has disappeared)
Ildtiadar homepage down for 2 days (404 Not Found)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition: added a link for opk disabling
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- WChess(DOS): minor comment revision
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_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

BurnAware 4.9
CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc-burning software
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html (info)
http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html (download)

DB2 Express-C 10.1
IBM free version of DB2 relational database without any limits on database size or number of users
for Win32/64, Linux32/64, Solaris, and Mac (Mac version is *beta*)
limitations: 2 cores max, 4 GB RAM max, no data replication, no clustering, no backup compression, no support
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/about.html (description)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/DB2/FREE+Book-+Getting+Started+with+DB2+Express-C (free ebook)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html (download)

SeaMonkey 2.9.1
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Thunderbird 12.0.1
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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