Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Hiarcs 14 (UCI)
Commercial; FRC; Win32, Mac32; mp; limit strength
- opening book updated
http://www.hiarcs.com/

Scid vs. PC 20130331 Beta Chess GUI (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
Win32, Mac & .tgz source for Linux
- only the Win32 version is updated
- this is a *beta* release
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (downloads)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 21 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 16 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 19 days (not found)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 16 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Jim Ablett main page down for 7 days ("suspended due to overtraffic")
Pyotr homepage down for 16 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 16 days (a 110mb.com site)

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

Bodhi Linux 2.3.0
Debian/Ubuntu-based distro; Enlightenment desktop; #17 in popularity
http://www.bodhilinux.com/

FreeFileSync 5.14
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Puppy Linux -- Lighthouse 64 6.01 Beta 1
Puppy is a popular (#9) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories
- Fatdog64 is a 64-bit Puppy distro; it is larger than most other Puppys
- Lighthouse is a fully-featured Puppy spin
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81832 (forum thread)
http://www.lhpup.org/release-lhp.htm#601 (release notes)
http://www.lhpup.org/beta/L64-601/ (download)
http://www.lhpup.org/ (Lighthouse homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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