Engine Updates

Myrddin 0.82
- huge amount of improvements
- big Elo increase from last version
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Chesley r288 JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 62 days
Smash site down today
Simplex site back up

Chess News

Kvetka 3.3.1 UCI Chess GUI
Intended for game viewing and analysis. Several plug-ins available.
- Problems with some hotkeys are fixed in it
http://kvetka.org/en/

Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
- "ecoExtract", "ecoList" and "ecoPlayer" now also work with extended ECO codes of up to five characters
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

CrystalDiskInfo 3.0.1a
open source utility to monitor health, status, & temperature of hard drives
and SSDs http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Miranda IM 0.8.7
open source, multi-protocol instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

µTorrent 1.8.4
free BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/