Engine Updates
Nothing new today

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated PGN program: groupExtract (bugfix)
- updated PGN program: pairSimilar (adjusted meaning of "similar" to be consistent with "nameSimilar")
- updated PGN program: nameExtract (added output files for color played)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bouquet homepage down for 2 days (a google.com site)
Chad's Chess homepage down for 18 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChessMind homepage down for 14 days ("Server not found")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 325 days
Surprise homepage down for 9 days (server is misconfigured)

Wiki Changes

Private Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- added Tang
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_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

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.4.3.0
free, extremely fast and effective disk defragmentation & optimization program; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 2.3.0.0
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

Comodo Dragon Internet Browser 19.0
Windows only; free; based on Google's Chrome browser, with improved security and privacy
stops cookies, no web spies, prevents browser download tracking, etc
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Maxthon 3.3.8.2000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

Network Scanner 5.4.3
free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports &
displays shared network resource types
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

PHP 5.4.4 RC 1
PHP 5.3.14 RC 1
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language mostly used for web applications
- these are *release candidates*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

TortoiseSVN 1.7.7
Win32/64 Subversion (version control system) client
http://tortoisesvn.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org