Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Lucas Chess 7.05
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
Python source; Win32
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/ (homepage)
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/downloads/list (download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 15 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 13 days (not found)
ETChess homepage down today (down for maintainance)
Hopeless homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
InmiChess homepage down for 10 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Jim Ablett main page down today ("suspended due to overtraffic")
Pyotr homepage down for 10 days (not found)
RDChess homepage down for 5 days (no content)
Revati homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- participants page updated
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

Firebird 2.5.2, Update 1
Firebird 2.1.5, Update 1
popular open source, cross-platform SQL database that does not require an administrator
- these are security updates
http://www.firebirdsql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/security-updates-for-firebird-2-5-2-and-firebird-2-1-5-are-released-19205/ (announcement)

SMPlayer 0.8.4
cross-platform graphical interface for MPlayer media player
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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