Engine Updates

Chesley the Chess Engine r304 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: r300 JA(Win32/64), 1.1(Mac)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Dancing Dragon 1.5055 (UCI)
a Denis P Mendoza build of Eelco de Groot's Stockfish derivative
http://www.computerchess.info/tdbb/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=958&sid=967e3ed0b0214d1264f6f942b14bcede

Down chess websites
Amundsen site down for 4 days
RBrChess site down for 4 days (exceeded quota?)
Smirf site down for 40 days
Sourceforge site still having troubles loading some sites in a reasonable amount of time
Superchessengine site down today
Sourceforge continues to revert inaccurate commit totals to proper values

Chess News

Polyglot 1.4.55b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- suppression of some error dialogs
- small delay in between final error message and actually quitting
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

ChessBin 0.0.5.1
Play as black or white against the computer (*not* a WB or UCI engine) this C# chess engine by Adam Berent requires .NET 2.0
http://www.chessbin.com/page/Download-Chess-Bin-Chess-Game.aspx

Crafty Chess Interface 5.0
A Chess GUI for Crafty with an attractive wood board by Valters Baumanis (requres VB6 run-time library)
includes Crafty 23.1 engine
http://h1.ripway.com/valters/crafty/interface.htm
http://valters-and.co.cc/crafty/gui.php

SCID
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 519)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added link to Crafty Cito build as part of Crafty entry
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

GPU-Z 0.38
free utility: information about your video card and GPU
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ (info)
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1709/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.3.8.html (download)

Pidgin 2.6.4
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
http://www.pidgin.im/

Sandboxie 3.42
free utility (nagware): run/install programs in a safe sandbox that cannot affect your Windows stability/security; Win32 only
http://www.sandboxie.com/

Sysinternals Suite
free trouble-shooting utilities suite from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

ToDoList 6.0
free todo list / calendar program with nestable todos, recurring reminders, Gantt charts, etc
NOTE: the update date on the website is wrong: *not* June 20, but December 1
http://www.abstractspoon.com/

Meaning of Colors

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

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