Engine Updates

Portfish Beta 1 (UCI)
new engine by Balint Pfliegel; it is a port of StockFish from C++ to C#
C# source; requires .NET or Mono framework
https://github.com/bpfliegel/Portfish
https://github.com/downloads/bpfliegel/Portfish/PortfishLatestRelease.zip (direct link)

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Cecir homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Chad's Chess homepage down for 5 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChessMind homepage down today ("Server not found")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 312 days
Geko homepage down for 6 days (this Google site has disappeared)
Ildtiadar homepage down for 6 days (404 Not Found)
RumbleMinze homepage down for 2 days ("Server Error")
Tippy Chess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Chess Commander: minor comment revisions, revised a link
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

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012.0.2171
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2012

Calibre 0.8.50
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Eclipse 4.2M7
Eclipse 3.8M7
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- these are stable *Milestone* releases
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.8M7-201205022000/ (3.8M7)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.2M7-201205031800/ (4.2M7)

JSDuck 3.10.0
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

VMware Player 4.0.3
free open source, cross-platform virtual machine emulator
run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/4_0#product_downloads

Meaning of Colors

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

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