Engine Updates

Vice 1.0 (WB/UCI)
new didactic engine by an anonymous author
C source; Win32/64
- VICE == Video Instructional Chess Engine
- thanks to Adam Hair for discovering this engine
http://bluefever.net/Downloads/ViceReadMe.html

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 30 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 45 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 21 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 45 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 45 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 29 days (a multimania site)
SharpChess2 homepage down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Spark homepage down for 21 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 13 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 30 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 110 days (not found)

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

Komodo Edit 8.5.0b3
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

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