Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win builds
Crafty 23.3 JA (WB)
C++ source; mp; limit strength; Win32/64, Linux32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Critter 0.80 (UCI)
mp; FRC; Win32/64;
- Chess960 support. FEN strings and castling moves are compatible with Shredder Classic (probably won't work in Arena)
- fixed display of elapsed time in Chess Assistant
- sending tbhits to GUI
- dont crash when MultiPV is set to value greater than number of legal moves
- improvements in king safety and passed pawn handling
- more aggressive forward pruning
- better zugzwang detection
- tablebase related UCI options renamed to be compatible with ChessGUI
http://sourceforge.net/projects/critterchess/ (homepage)
http://www.mediafire.com/?jkjpnzk5yg5p0e3 (direct download)

Plisk 0.2.5n (WB/UCI)
Win32/64, AMD64, Mac, & Linux32
- Mac version re-built, no other changes
http://sites.google.com/site/pliskchess/

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.191 (WB/UCI)
a nice chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
"Bug-free ChessGUI 0.190 is now even bug-freer !"
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex homepage down for 92 days
Amundsen homepage down for 97 days (Permissions problem)
Bearded homepage down for 13 days
CuckooChess homepage down for 19 days
Feuerstein homepage down for 32 days (probably dead)

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

Fresh HTML 3.52
free html editor
http://www.freshwebmaster.com/index.html

System Explorer 2.2.5
free; detailed info about tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows, services, drivers,
connections and opened files; graphs monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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