Engine Updates

NG-Play 6.1 (WB)
'new' engine (from 2010) by George Georgopoulos (discovered by Ruxy Sylwyka)
C source; Win32
http://users.otenet.gr/~yggeorgo/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 41 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down for 5 days (not found)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 526 days
ExaChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Glass homepage down today (not found)
Hopeless homepage down today (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 41 days (a 110mb.com site)
Powder homepage down for 40 days (project removed)
Rodent homepage down today (not found)
Tony Mokonen's files page down for 4 days (no response in 60 seconds)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- changed AliBaba protocol (WB -> WB/UCI)
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Chessmaster: expanded comments, added more links
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

Firefox 17.0.1
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

NetBSD 5.2
BSD-based distro; Desktops: AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce;
#97 in popularity
- this updates an older version
http://www.netbsd.org/

Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.1
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program; run it in addition to your usual antivirus
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/

Vuze 4.8.0
open source Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus
- silent update, version number unchanged
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

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