Engine Updates

Bouquet 1 (UCI)
Win32/64
- silent update, version number unchanged
- "Modified executables, previously protected with Protect VM, gave false-positive problems with some antivirus."
https://sites.google.com/site/chessbouquet/ (homepage)
https://sites.google.com/site/chessbouquet/descarga-bouquet-chess-engine (download)

Chess News

Lucas Chess 6.3b
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
Win32
- probably a quick bugfix for yesterday's release
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/ (homepage)
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/downloads/list (download)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- added PGN database: gm2007.pgn (games between top human players)
- added PGN database: ce2008.pgn (games between top computer engines)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Chad's Chess homepage down for 20 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChessMind homepage down for 16 days ("Server not found")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 327 days
LarsenVB homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Neurone homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Surprise homepage down for 11 days (server is misconfigured)

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

Eclipse 4.2 RC 1
Eclipse 3.8 RC 1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- these are *release candidates*
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.8RC1-201205182345/ (3.8 RC 1)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.2RC1-201205182145/ (4.2 RC 1)

PNotes 9.0.107
free, open source Windows reminder program that uses persistent desktop notes
http://pnotes.sourceforge.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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