Engine Updates

Cyclone 4.2 (UCI)
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Delphil 2.1 (UCI)
- bugfix in the evaluation
- support for Winboard dropped
http://delphil.perso.neuf.fr/

Onno (UCI)
commercial engine
update announced but the website has not yet changed
the engine list will not be updated until news is confirmed
http://www.onnochess.com/index.html

Protector (UCI)
another revision to the source code today (rev. 51)
- changed VC++ project settings
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)
latest builds are here (updated often):
http://protector.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/protector/bin/ (bin files)

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 35 days
Pierre site down for 68 days
Crafty Chess Interface site back up
Jin GUI site back up

Chess News

Polyglot 1.4.41b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- Some segfaults fixed in case of corrupt config files.
- Persistence of options. If the option SaveSettingsOnExit is true (the default)
PolyGlot now saves its options in a file whose name is given by the option SaveFile
which by default is equal to the engine name, prefixex by PG_ and suffixed by ".ini".
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

SCID
update(s) to the source code today (patchset = 493 & 494)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Winboard 4.4.0 beta2
new, unofficial Winboard installer
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/WinBoard-4.4.0beta2.exe (direct download)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
- added glChess

Play Chess Online List
- added GGZ Gaming Zone
- added Liveschach

FACE Tournament
- lots of changes

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

Google Chrome 4.0.203.2 Beta
the latest version of Google's cutting-edge browser
this is a beta, not considered stable yet
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/

AbiWord 2.7.10 beta
an open source, cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux) word processor resembling Microsoft Word
this is a beta, not considered stable yet
http://www.abiword.com/