Engine Updates

Butterfly 0.2.5 (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64
- improving the evaluation function (rook)
- fix some bug
http://sites.google.com/site/butterflychess/

Redqueen 0.4 (UCI)
2 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 174), no new build
- minor fixes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News
Nothing new found today

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 5 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 10 days
Betsy homepage down for 112 days
Blitzter homepage down for 47 days
Brama homepage down for 39 days
Colossus homepage down for 118 days
Dika homepage down for 40 days
Gosu homepage down for 45 days
InmiChess homepage down today
Nesik homepage down for 24 days
Numpty homepage closed until further notice
Sinobyl homepage down for 64 days
Sissa homepage down for 6 days
BabyChess homepage back up

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- Gerhard has updated some of his pages, getting ready for Edition 11
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Chess Engine List
- added Zoidberg
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

Notepad2
open source Notepad replacement based on Scintilla w/ sytax highlighting for many languages
- added Bookmark Edition version (modified version)
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html (homepage & downloads)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/ (project page)

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

Trillian 4.2.0.16 beta
free cross-platform chat supporting Windows Live, Yahoo, MySpaceIM, AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, IRC, more
(the IPhone version was also updated)
this is a *beta* release
http://www.trillian.im/

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