Engine Updates

Bison 9.11 (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64
- with the material imbalance
- endgame, especially the pawns endgame
- dangerous middlegame
- corrected bug causing hanging in the 9.8 version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bison/ (homepage)
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm (also available from SDChess)

Brutus 8.04 (WB/UCI)
C++ source (MSVC), Win32/64, mp
- bug update: fixed several UCI communication-related problems
(Under winboard, the strength is comparable to 8.02).
The engine is named WITHOUT any dots ('.'signs), it appears that polyglot is hanging otherwise
http://www.xs4all.nl/~vermeire/brutus.html

RedQueen (UCI)
2 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 89), no download yet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Down chess websites
BACE site down today
Shredder site down today
Smirf site down for 31 days
Tarrasch GUI + Tarrasch Toy Engine site looks to be highjacked or dead for 2 days

Chess News

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

Slibo (engine + GUI)
2 new commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits = 159), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slibo

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warning: Be careful not to install unwanted toolbars, etc.

Opera 10.10 beta 1
open source web browser
this is a *beta* release with new features, it may crash
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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