Engine Updates

Butterfly 0.1.3 (WB)
C++ source; Win32
- fix a bug in promotion
http://sites.google.com/site/butterflychess/

Chess News

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 569)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Strategic Test Suite
10 epd testsuites by Swaminathan and Dann Corbit
- added new testsuite: simplification
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/ (STS)
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/simplification (Simplification)

Down/Problem chess websites
Ares homepage down for 48 days
BabyChess homepage down for 29 days
Betsy homepage down for 66 days
Colossus homepage down for 72 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 44 days
Omar homepage down today
Sinobyl homepage down for 18 days
ChessGUI (110mb site) back up
Jin GUI homepage back up
Matacz homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Taktix
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

NOTE: server update: all broken-looking pages seem to be fixed now; thanks for your patience

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

Explore&Burn 1.6
the license has changed to shareware, so it will *not* be listed here any more
the best free, open source alternative is CDBurnerXP

Programmer's Notepad 2.1.3
open source programmer's editor and lightweigt IDE with syntax highlighting
http://www.pnotepad.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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