Engine Updates

Dann Corbit builds
Gaviota 0.74 (WB/UCI)
Win64 build - direct download link
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/gaviota.exe.bz2
Gaviota 4-man egtbs (15 MB) - direct download link
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/gtb.7z

Capa 0.1 beta 2 (WB)
4 new commit(s) to the source, (rev = 99), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/capa/

Protector 1.2.9 (UCI)
2 revision(s) to the source code today (current = rev. 104), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Brutus site down for 3 days
Chaturanga geocities site down 11 days, maybe gone forever?
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Eden site down today
Fimbulwinter site down for 3 days (fixing viruses?)
Frenzee site has no content for 16 days
GreKo site down for 2 days (403 error)
Smirf site down for 2 days
Zebra Chess down for 18 days

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

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.168 (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI / tournament manager for WB or UCI engines by Matthias Gemuh
ChessGUI4Stick (portable version) also updated
- revisited initialisation of games
- only ChessGUI.exe has changed
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Cutechess-cli 0.2.0 (WB/UCI)
by Ilari Pihlajisto; a commandline interface to run Winboard or UCI protocol engine-engine games
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/cutechess-cli-win32.zip

Norm Pollock 40H PGN Utilities
- Bugfix to programs "pairExtract" & "groupExtract"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html (homepage)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?znikd12czzt (pairExtract program)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y5v5jktkhzw (groupExtract program)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Ippolit & Robbolito as source-code-only engines
Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

RJ TextEd 5.73
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
"Several improvements have been made and several issues fixed."
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm

Task Coach 0.75.0
open source todo manager
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list