Engine Updates

nanoSzachy 3.8 (WB)
- added recognition of some drawish pawnless endings
- some speed optimizations
http://www.kalisz.mm.pl/~pic/nanochess/

GnuChess 5.07.6b MVdB (WB)
Michel Van den Bergh's bugfixed Win32 build (pthreads.dll also updated)
- Sanity checks for castling rights in setboard. Otherwise we get search corruption afterwards
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/gnuchess-release/

Cyclone xTreme (UCI)
a reversion back to original version; no testing before releases?
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 66 days
Postmodernist site back up

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- Gerhard has updated the pages, deciding which engines will be tested in upcoming tourneys
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Firebird 2.1.3
open source SQL database; updated on Sept 8, 2009
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=fb213_release
http://www.firebirdsql.org/

Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1611
free antivirus, antispyware for XP(32), Vista(32/64), & Win7(32/64);
not the best, but better than nothing
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Recuva 1.31.437
free utility to recover lost files including recycle bin deletes
http://www.piriform.com/recuva/version-history
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

RJ TextEd 5.70 Beta 1
free programmer's text editor w/ many addins: language & syntax files, web page previews, etc
http://www.rj-texted.se/download.htm

Soundbase 2009.09.29
free; plays, edits and organizes music albums...
http://www.dajukebox.com/soundbase/

µTorrent 1.8.4.16688
free BitTorrent client; compatible with recent versions of Azureus and BitComet
http://www.utorrent.com/