Engine Updates

LittleThought 1.05 (UCI)
Win32/64; mp
"It should be significantly stronger than 1.04"
- added Chess960 support
- re-implementation of multithreading, now uses YBWC and can use up to 8 threads
- extensive retesting of all eval features and removed several misbehaving features
- improved time management - can handle sub-second games and better able to extend/reduce time on searches
- added divide command
- fixed problem with using opening book
- fixed crash with extremely long games
- fixed a time control initialisation bug when switching between modes without restarting
http://www.kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littlethought.php

Protector 1.3.4 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 265), no new build
- eval change(s)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Chess News
Nothing new found today

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Amundsen homepage down today (again)
Betsy homepage down for 103 days
Blitzter homepage down for 38 days
Brama homepage down for 30 days
Colossus homepage down for 109 days
Dika homepage down for 31 days
Gosu homepage down for 36 days
Lyapko Utilities site down for 6 days
Nesik homepage down for 15 days
Omar homepage down for 2 days
Sinobyl homepage down for 55 days
Tony's Chess homepage down for 5 days

Wiki Changes

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

Cobian Backup 10.0.2.703
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Firefox 3.6.4 build 1
open source browser. Recommended!
this is a *beta* release
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html (beta page)

RSSOwl 2.0.5 RC1
open source Java RSS newsreader
this is a *release candidate*
http://www.rssowl.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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