Engine Updates
None

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Brainless site down today
Chaturanga geocities site down 6 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down for 5 days
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 8 days
Frenzee site has no content for 12 days
Zebra Chess down for 13 days
Akiba site back up
Superchessengine site back up

Note: GEOCITIES is closing on October 26, 2009.
There are a lot of free engines hosted there that might disappear forever!

Warning: Fimbulwinter site is reported as an attack site!
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.
Malicious software includes 9 exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.

Chess News

Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
PGN utilities (38 of them) and Opening Book PGN Databases
- bugfix to PGN utility "minOccur"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html (homepage)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ozd23mmbqdz (direct download of minOccur)

Harry Schnapp books
Opening Books for Arena, ChessBase, Aquarium & Shredder Classic
- book 'HS-20moves.abk' updated
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/hsbook.htm

SCID
update(s) to the source code today (patchset = 503)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes

Private Engine List
- Goldentree renamed to Olympus
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

RJ TextEd 5.72
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
- several bugfixes for yesterday's update
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm

SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
this is a *beta* release
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (homepage)
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.0rc2 (RC2 download)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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