Engine Updates
None

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Chaturanga geocities site down 7 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down for 6 days
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 9 days
Frenzee site has no content for 13 days
Gosu site down today
Zebra Chess down for 14 days
Brainless 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

Winboard 4.4.x
a new build containing fixes for all known bugs
there will be a new official release soon
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/winboard.zip (direct download)

Chess for Android 2.0
Aart Bik's free chess engine for the Android phone
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/

Wiki Changes

Myrddin
some minor edits only
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:engines:myrddin:index

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Networx 5.0.5
free network traffic (bandwidth) monitor & usage reporting
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

PeaZip 2.7.1
open source file and archive manager
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP
- extract 95 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many more...
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

Pidgin 2.6.3
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
http://www.pidgin.im/

Task Coach 0.74.4
open source todo manager
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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