Engine Updates

Butcher 1.61 (WB)
Win32/64, Linux32/64, DOS; engine also known as 'Rzeźnik'
http://republika.pl/markol4/

Chess News

Winglet tutorial
A step-by-step guide for writing and improving your own bitboard chess engine by Stef Luijten
- Stef continues writing his C++ tutorial
http://www.sluijten.com/winglet/

Note: Nanook is under active development
http://nanook-chess.blogspot.com/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 26 days (404: page not found)
ChessMind homepage down for 2 days
Frenzee homepage down for 259 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly homepage down for 19 days (homepage is moving)
Loop homepage down for 7 days (serious clone accusation may have ended Loop)
MFChess homepage down for 13 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Typhoon homepage down for 6 days (engine download is available elsewhere)

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- Gerhard updated his 'participants' page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

Akka 1.1 RC 1
open source library for Scala or Java languages running on the jvm
gives developers a simpler programming model to develop highly reliable
asynchronous, non-blocking applications for concurrent or parallel operation
using Actors, STM & Transactors; multi-core scalable and fault-tolerant
- this is a *release candidate*
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

Groovy++ 0.4.231-1.8.0
open source jvm language
this is an extension to the standard Groovy jvm language; it supports better runtime efficiency using static typing
- the 2nd set of numbers in the version refer to the parent Groovy version
http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/downloads/list

Notepad2 4.2.25 RC 9
open source Win32/64 Notepad replacement based on Scintilla w/ syntax highlighting for many languages
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html (homepage & downloads)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/ (project page)

Task Coach 1.2.17
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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