Engine Updates

Pawny 0.1 (UCI)
new open source engine by Mincho Georgiev written in C for Win 32/x64
http://pawny.netii.net/

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Dabbaba 2.46 wb JA (WB) for Win 32
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Fairy-Max 4.8L (WB)
variants play only (10x8 board w/ extra pieces)
requires new Winboard 4.4.0
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairy.zip (Windows)
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairymax_4.8-2_i386.deb (Linux)

Cyclone xTreme
'xTreme'version now points to correct link
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Down chess websites
Armageddon site down today
Averno site down for 39 days
Pierre site down for 72 days
Simplex site down today
BabyChess site back up after being down for 3 days
Spin Chess (unreleased) back up

Chess News

Polyglot 1.4.44b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- "Implementation" of new buttons and controls.
- The "Persist" option is now persistent. That is if you turn of "Persist" then as a special case PG will remember this.
- There is now a "reset" button which restores the default options. The code is commented out since WB does not support it yet.
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- misc updates to the homepage
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

Today's stuff is aimed at programmers, web developers, and techies

Bespin
very impressive open source, browser-based code editor from Mozilla Labs
supports collaboration and live code-sharing
https://bespin.mozilla.com/

Prism
split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop
open source from Mozilla Labs
http://labs.mozilla.com/prism/

Jetpack
API for writing Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know
If you can build a webpage, you can write a FireFox addon
open source from Mozilla Labs
http://labs.mozilla.com/jetpack/

PasteBin
Post code snippets so others can edit/correct them
"a tool for collaborative debugging or editing"
http://pastebin.com/ (homepage)
http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?help=1 (help page)

Blender 2.49b
free, open source, cross-platform 3D content creation suite
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
http://www.blender.org/

VirtualBox 3.0.4
free, open source general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)
You can be the guy with all the operating systems!
http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/snapshot-details.png