Engine Updates

Scorpio 2.3.2 beta
Win32 only, no source
http://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/home

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Poor Little Pinkus rev ee569f0 JA (UCI) for Win32
- some tuning of R in null move and prune margins
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Tiffanys 0.5 (WB)
4 revision(s) to the Java source code today (current = rev. 60), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Toledo Nanochess Dec/11/2009
this is a source code only release
- world's smallest chess program is one byte smaller
http://nanochess.110mb.com/index.html

Down chess websites
Amundsen site down for 6 days
Smirf site down for 50 days
Neurone site back up after being down for 7 days

Note: Some Sourceforge project pages did not load in a reasonable amount of time
Warning: Lyapko site is an attack site and dangerous to visit

Chess News

Kvetka 3.4.1 UCI GUI
Intended for game viewing and analysis. Several plug-ins available.
- some bugfixes and minor changes
http://kvetka.org/en/

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 530)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.1.2.90
free disk defragmentation program. Recommended.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

AVG Anti-Virus 9.0.716
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection. Recommended.
32-bit program that runs on all modern Win systems including Win64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
direct download link (link is hard to find!)
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-file-ins-afg-free

Firebird 2.5 RC 1
popular open source SQL database that does not requires an administrator
this is a *release candidate*
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php

Lunascape 6.0
free browser with all 3 major rendering enignes: IE (Trident)+Firefox (Gecko)+Chrome/Safari (Webkit)
- added feature: compatibility with Firefox addins
- preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

MajorGeeks Online Backup 4.5.3
uses SOS backup program; 500MB of online storage is free
http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=6314&file=15&evp=5fcdb4851a5cb3254cde77ef6192f6d6

Notepad++ 5.6.2
open source programmer's editor. Recommended!
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/ (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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