Engine Updates

Deep Junior 12.5.0.3 (UCI)
commercial; mp; limit strength; Win32/64, Mac32/64
- bugfix for tablebases (free update for existing customers)
http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-deep-junior.htm

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Stockfish 2.1 JA (UCI)
C++ source; mp; FRC; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac
- Win32 bugfix build for using the opening book
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/stockfish-21-32-win-intel-ja.zip (direct link)

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- renamed program: tagClean (formerly cleanTag)
- updated programs: spreadElo, eloList (now use average Elo)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 27 days (404: page not found)
ChessMind homepage down for 3 days
Frenzee homepage down for 260 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly homepage down for 20 days (homepage is moving)
Loop homepage down for 8 days (serious clone accusation may have ended Loop)
MFChess homepage down for 14 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Typhoon homepage down for 7 days (engine download is available elsewhere)

Wiki Changes

Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner based on suggestions from Silvian
- added Akiba Chess Engine
- added Chess in Lisp (CIL)
- added Deep Ross
- added Emacs-Chess
- added E-Ruby-Chess
- added JChess
- added Miguedrez
- added Python Chess
- added Pythonchess and Rubychess
- added Tjes
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_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

Adblock Plus for Chrome 1.1.3 Beta
free, open source Chrome plugin that blocks most web advertisements
- this is a *beta* release
http://adblockplus.org/en/ (homepage)
http://adblockplus.org/releases/ (download)

Calibre 0.8.0
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

LibreOffice 3.4.0 Beta 4
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- this is a *beta* candidate
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/ (download)

Miranda IM 0.9.21
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

MySQL Community Server 5.5.12
free (Community Server Edition only!), and very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

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

Meaning of Colors

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

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