Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Hiarcs Chess Explorer 1.4 Chess GUI (UCI)
Commercial; FRC; Win32, Mac32; mp
- free update for paying customers
- Hiarcs engine *not* updated
http://www.hiarcs.com/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 8 days ("this site has been suspended")
Bestia homepage down for 28 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 6 days (not found)
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities page down for 28 days (a 110mb.com site)
Pyotr homepage down for 3 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Typhoon homepage down today (not found)

Akkad homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.
Deep Saros homepage is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- NetChess: updated 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 2013.3267
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2013

Clonezilla Live 2.1.1-7 Stable
open source system image backup/restore (Live) or multicast new system images (SE)
http://clonezilla.org/
http://clonezilla.org/news.php (release notes)

SpeedFan 4.49
monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips (Windows-only)
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

SQLite 3.7.16
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "a regularly scheduled release of SQLite"
- several language enhancements
- improvements to the query optimizer
- one important bug fix that addresses an incorrect query result
- all users are advised to upgrade
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_16.html (changelog)

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
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