Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akkad homepage down for 23 days (not found)
ChestUCI homepage down for 26 days (a 110mb.com site)
Deep Saros homepage down for 23 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 26 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony Mokonen's files down for 13 days (no response in 60 seconds)

Warning: Inmi site has been hacked and is unsafe to visit
AVG: 'Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit [type 2371]'

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Kenny: added Winglet link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Variants Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Sugod
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_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

ActivePerl Community Edition
free cross-platform Perl distribution including the most popular Perl libraries
- Perl 5.16.2.1602
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

Adobe Reader 11.0.01
free PDF viewer
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows (Windows download)

Flash Player 11.5.502
free cross-platform Flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

OS4 13.2 "OpenDesktop"
Debian/Xubuntu-based Linux distro; customized XFCE desktop; #14 in popularity
http://www.os4online.com/

SeaMonkey 2.15
open source, all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Shedskin 0.9.3
a restricted Python to C++ compiler; compiler included in package
"a typical speedup of 2-200 times over standard CPython"
http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

SQLite 3.7.15.2
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- small patch fixing a 3-way join optimization bug
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_15_2.html (changelog)

Thunderbird 17.0.2
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Transmission-Qt Win 2.76
Windows open source BitTorrent client
http://trqtw.sourceforge.net/blog/

WinPython 3.3.0.0 Alpha 1 for Win32/64
open-source portable distribution of Python for Windows32/64
allows use of different Python versions that are fully isolated from each other
WinPython is the easiest way of getting Spyder IDE working on Win32/64
NumPy, SciPy and Matplot are also included
- this is a large file to download (more than 200 MB)
- this is an *alpha* release
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/

Meaning of Colors

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

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