Engine Updates

Protector 1.2.8 (UCI)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)
latest builds are here (updated more often than download files):
http://protector.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/protector/bin/ (bin files)

StockFish 1.5 (UCI)
source code annoucement only, no builds
(Highlights)
- Chess960 support now works as intended
- More complex (and hopefully better) material balance evaluation
- Various minor search tweaks and bug fixes
- Lots of low-level speed optimizations and simplifications everywhere in the code
http://www.mediafire.com/?0qf4mnzmvkn (source code)

Jim Ablett Win builds
- StockFish 1.5 JA (UCI) for Win 32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Redqueen Chess (unreleased UCI)
another commit to the source code (commits= 75), no download yet
- Code cleaning
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess/

Down chess websites
Amyan site down today
Averno site down for 70 days
Bullucks site down today
CSBoard site down for 3 days
DreamChess site down for 3 days
Pos site down today
Vicki site has no content today
Aristarch site back up

Chess News

Cutechess-cli 0.1.9
commandline tool for running non-GUI engine vs engine WB/UCI chess tournaments
(Bugfixes)
- Crash due to a player resigning on the opponent's turn
- Crash due to a player disconnecting or being terminated
- Crash/freeze due to failure to respond to ping
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-win32.zip (Win32)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-linux64.tar.gz (Linux64)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-osx.zip (Mac)

ChessZone Magazine
Free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
the new issue is out: "10,2009"
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Endgame Testsuite
180 positions in PGN & cbv(Chessbase) format
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpag...