Engine Updates

OBender 3.2.x build 9.6 (WB)[/color]
updated and now advertised as shareware (price: $15)
http://evgeniy-korniloff.narod.ru/obender/obender.html

Poor Little Pinkus (UCI)
new C source engine by Helge Milde; source code only
http://github.com/helgefmi/Poor-little-pinkus

Jim Ablett Win builds
- OliThink 5.2.3 JA (WB) for Win32/64
- Poor Little Pinkus rev f3e3382 (UCI) for Win32
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Tiffanys 0.5 (WB)
4 revision(s) to the Java source code today (current = rev. 56), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Down chess websites
Amundsen site down for 5 days
Neurone site down for 7 days
Smirf site down for 49 days
Omar site back up

Note: All Sourceforge project pages loaded in a reasonable amount of time
Warning: Lyapko site is an attack site and dangerous to visit

Chess News

Huo Chess
new open source native engine (not WB or UCI) for diadactic purposes by Spiros I. Kakos
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/huochess for the C++ version
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/cshuochess for the C# Edition
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vbhuochess for the Visual Basic Edition
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xnahuochess for the XNA Edition of Huo Chess with Graphical User Interface

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)
None!

Meaning of Colors

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

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