Engine Updates

Philou 3.1.2 (UCI)
Win32
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Philou.html (Leo)

Protector 1.3.2 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 224), no new build
- eval/search change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News

Gaviota Tablebases Probing Code 0.1.2
Miguel Ballicora's open source probing code for engine programmers (in C language)
new link for source code repository (egtb probing code)
http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/Home/releases/gaviotatablebasesprobingcodev012update (info)
http://github.com/michiguel/Gaviota-Tablebases (source code)

Winboard/XBoard alpha news
- playing through variations from PGN
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html

Down/Problem chess websites
Ares homepage down for 26 days
BabyChess homepage down for 7 days
Betsy homepage down for 44 days
Colossus homepage down for 50 days
Frank homepage down for 3 days
Italian Engine List down for 3 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 22 days
Lyapko utilities homepage down for 10 days
Neurone homepage down for 3 days
Omar homepage down for 12 days
Typhoon homepage down for 28 days
AICE homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Simon
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

Pidgin 2.6.6
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
http://www.pidgin.im/

RSSOwl 2.0.4 RC 1
open source Java RSS newsreader
this is a *release candidate*
http://www.rssowl.org/

µTorrent 2.0.1 beta 18244
open source BitTorrent client
this is a *beta* release
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=68992 (announcement)
http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent-2.0.1-beta-18244.upx.exe (direct download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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