Engine Updates

Chesley the Chess Engine r288 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: r287 JA(Win32/64), 1.1(Mac)
- Fix bug where En Passant square was not cleared properly when making a NULL move
- Provide faster move application for captures where the hash key does not have to be maintained. For use in SEE.
- Fix capitalization of 'Coord'
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Cyclone xTreme StormPack (UCI)
yet another release: 4 builds with all combos of razoring/history turned on/off
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Tarrasch Toy Engine 0.906 (UCI)
- better time management
- some other improvements
http://www.triplehappy.com/
http://www.triplehappy.com/downloads/tarrasch-v0.906-Engine-exe-only.zip (direct download)

Michel Van den Bergh Win build
- GnuChess 5.07.3b (WB) for Win32
Michel Van den Bergh's bugfixed GnuChess
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/gnuchess-5.07.3b-npth.exe (direct download)

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Chesley r287 JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

NOTE: HIARCS 12.1 for PocketPC achieves highest ever official chess rating for a PDA
of 2749 Elo on SSDF rating list

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 60 days

Wiki Changes

Myrddin
- clearer explanations
- new testsuite results
- complete changelog for old 0.82 release
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

CDBurnerXP 4.2.6.1637 Beta
excellent open source CD / DVD / Blu-ray buring software, this is a *beta* release!
requires .NET framework and Media Format 9.0 Update
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download (homepage)
http://forum.cdburnerxp.se/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7841 (beta info)
http://download.cdburnerxp.se/cdbxp_setup_4.2.6.1637.exe (direct download)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79BC3B77-E02C-4AD3-AACF-A7633F... (.NET)
http://hem.bredband.net/download3/wmfdist.exe (Media Format 9.0)

Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4
excellent open source email program; this is a *beta* release!
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b4-candidates/build5/win3...

Vista Codec Package 5.4.3
free codecs (audio/video drivers) for all versions of Windows, not just Vista
this package by default removes other system codecs before installing
http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html