Engine Updates

Amyan 1.6
it's good to see the 'just amyan' message back after being absent since 2005
"Only search changes. Eval should be the same."
-50 elo stronger (tested on Celeron M 1.6 Ghz, 1 minute games only!)
-support for UCI_Elo command
http://www.pincha.cl/amyan/amyane.html

Hiarcs 12.1
is running a 10% off sale "for a limited time"
http://www.hiarcs.com/

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 49 days
Blitzter site back up
NOTE: Pierre homepage is removed from the engine list. It has been down for
almost 3 months. The Jim Ablett download link is kept.

Chess News

Chess Hero 2.0.1
A free chess trainer
Produces test positions from PGN files
Compare your best move to your favorite WB/UCI chess engine's choice
- rewritten from scratch in C++ and Qt
- better-looking graphics
- animated pieces movement
- resizable board
- new game window to display picked PGN. Useful with annotated tactical positions
- new Play button to play a few moves against the engine
- copy and save variations in PGN format for later review
- penalties are now stored per-profile
- switched to TogaII as the default chess engine
- fixed a bug that caused the program to start multiple instances of the
engine when minimizing/restoring the main window
"old settings will NOT be imported by the new version"
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

ChessZone Magazine
Free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
the new issue is out: "09,2009"
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Kvetka 3.2
free UCI chess GUI for analyzing games
"A new version of plugin "Windows service" is released. Now you can stop the
engine in autorun to reduce CPU usage."
http://kvetka.org/en/

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

ATI Catalyst 9.9 Drivers
Free. For those with ATI graphics card (Radeon) or ATI motherboard/integrated chipset
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2
Open source. Web-browser, e-mail, newsgroup, IRC chat, and HTML editing
- beta version is now feature-complete
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0b2/ (beta page)
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (homepage)

MyDefrag 4.2.0.Beta
free disk defragmentation program
- faster defragging
- some bugs fixed
- some menus changed
http://www.mydefrag.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mydefrag.com/DownloadAndInstall-MyDefragV4.2.0.BetaSeptember132009.html (changelog)