Engine Updates

Chesley the Chess Engine 1.1.2 JA (WB)
- added Jim Ablett Win32/64 build as a download file
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Kaissa 1.00
C source to old Kaissa program (written for Turbo C)
We need someone to build this into a WB engine!
http://greko.webservis.ru/ (GreKo homepage)
http://greko.webservis.ru/kaissa.zip (direct download)

Jim Ablett Win builds
Michel Van den Bergh did bugfixes, Jim Ablett compiled it
- GnuChess 5.07.1b JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html (Jim's homepage)
http://www.mediafire.com/?kjgzymogzon (direct download)

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 57 days
Crafty Chess Interface site down today

Chess News

Update: Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
- added new utility 'ecoExtract'
--- extracts games based upon a user-specified ECO code or range of ECO codes
- 'ecoList' updated
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Bonus Notifications (recent releases) (free stuff)

Notepad++ 5.5.0
free, open source text editor / programmer's editor with a huge amount of features and addins
Features: multi-document, multi-view, syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, drag-n-drop, macros, smart brace/indent handling, etc
This is a must-have text editor for Windows. Recommended!
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/331753/topic/3405590 (changelog)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/notepad%2B%2B%20releases%20binary/np...

Puppy Linux 4.3
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged)
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
The most easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users
http://puppylinux.org/ (homepage)
2 reviews
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blen...
http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2009/09/21/puppy-linux-4-3/

Free Rapid Downloader 0.83 Release Candidate
open source Java downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services without having to wait and then click 'download'
http://wordrider.net/freerapid/index.html (homepage)
http://wordrider.net/download.php?file=FreeRapid-0.83-rc.zip (RC download)

Damaq 1.01
not new, but new to me
free Java checkers (draughts or dames) program
http://wordrider.net/forum/read.php?6,166 (post)
http://wordrider.net/download.php?file=damaq-1.01.zip (download)