Engine Updates

Octochess r5178 (WB, UCI)
C++ source; mp; FRC; multi-PV; Win64, Linux64, Kindle
- full support for Fischer Random Chess, aka Chess960
- KBPvPK endgame is handled better
- fixed too early move counter increment in search
- fix repetition draw detection after a null-move
- small improvements to the threading if searching with multiple cores
http://octochess.org/

Chess News

Chess Engines for Android in Chessbase format
Aart Bik's collection of engines that run on commercial Chessbase Android Chess GUI
- version 1.0.5 of engines package is available
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 34 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 49 days (a 110mb.com site)
Brainless homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bright homepage down for 25 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 49 days (502 error: bad gateway)
GreKo homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Hamsters homepage down for 13 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 13 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 49 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 33 days (a multimania site)
SDChess homepage down today (not found)
SharpChess2 homepage down for 6 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Spark homepage down for 25 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 17 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 34 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 114 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

Nothing new today

Meaning of Colors

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

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