Engine Updates

Deep Fritz 12
commercial; mp; Win32/64
~100 Euros!?
- GUI design changed
- free: one year of Playchess
- new opening book
- chess tutorial videos
- updated opening book database
http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=488

Sjakk 10-Feb-2010 (WB)
Win32; own GUI
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~jacobbl/jacob/Sjakk/Sjakk.htm

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.176 (WB/UCI)
A nice chess GUI / tournament manager for WB or UCI engines by Matthias Gemuh
ChessGUI4Stick (portable version) also updated
- epd testsuite support with report and scoring
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Gaviota tablebases, Probing Code 0.1
open source (MIT license) alternative to Nalimov egtb code
http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/Home/releases

Silver Openings Suite
pgn suite of 50 openings that are judged 'equal'
CCC link
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=329959&t=32532

Winboard/XBoard for Mac ('MacBoard'?)
this is a build of the latest alpha by 'Darklord42' announced at the Winboard Forum
- this is an improved build of yesterday's release
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nzje505wdun/Xboard.dmg (direct link)

Winboard/XBoard News
news about new Winboard alpha releases
- Improved Chat-Box interface
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html

Down/Problem chess websites
Amyan homepage down today
Ares homepage down for 17 days
Betsy homepage down for 36 days
Colossus homepage down for 42 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 14 days
Lyapko utilities homepage down for 2 days
Omar homepage down for 5 days
Typhoon homepage down for 20 days
Amundsen homepage back up, was down for 25 days
Superchessengines homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added SamChess
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 occasionally crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Miranda IM 0.8.14
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

PeaZip 3.0 beta
open source file and archive manager
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP
- extract 118 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
this is a *beta* release
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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