Engine Updates

Butterfly 0.2.1 (WB)
C++ source; Win32
- fix another bug in promotion
- fix bug in castle
http://sites.google.com/site/butterflychess/

Mainsworthy 5 & 6 (WB)
Win32; own GUI (GUI for native use only, no other WB or UCI engines)
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html

Protector 1.3.4 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 251), no new build
- eval change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News

Norm Pollack site
40H PGN utilities (40 of them) and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new program: "pairSplit"
- updated program: "nameSimilar"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem chess websites
BabyChess down for 41 days
Betsy homepage down for 78 days
Blitzer homepage down for 12 days
Brama homepage down for 5 days
Colossus homepage down for 84 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 56 days
Dika homepage down for 6 days
Gosu homepage down for 11 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 30 days
Amundsen homepage back up after being down for 2 days

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
- lots of changes by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

SMP Engine List
- lots of changes by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_engine_list

Chess Engine List
- added Tikov Chess
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

Cobian Backup 10.0.2.683
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
- bugfixes and language updates
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Sysinternals Suite
free trouble-shooting utilities suite from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

VirtualBox 3.1.6
open source general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)
You can be the guy with all the operating systems! (screenshot)
http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/snapshot-details.png

Wise Registry Cleaner 4 Free 5.21
free registry cleaner. Cleans incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html

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

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Hi,

The BabyChess page is back online as Jérôme has informed me. I asked him if it is possible to put it back online 2 days ago and here it is: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kunegis/babychess/

The address remains unchanged

Enjoy,
Michael

Hi,

The BabyChess page is back online as Jérôme has informed me. I asked him if it is possible to put it back online 2 days ago and here it is: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kunegis/babychess/

The address remains unchanged

Enjoy,
Michael

Thanks Michael!

Do you know anything about the other sites that are down? I know that the Colossus author has promised to get his web page back up eventually. But as for the others, I have no clue.

Down/Problem chess websites
Betsy homepage down for 79 days
Blitzer homepage down for 13 days
Brama homepage down for 6 days
Colossus homepage down for 85 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 57 days
Dika homepage down for 7 days
Gosu homepage down for 12 days
Schola homepage down today
Sinobyl homepage down for 31 days

Ron

Hi Ron,

Unfortunately I don't know more. It is a pity that the majority of authors don't say anything when retreating or moving their page.

I tried http://www.archive.org for Gosu but the download is not there.

Regards,
Michael