Engine Updates
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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/

"Chess Tiger for iOS is available under the name CHESS(sm) on the App Store and has been updated to version 2011.03"

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 46 days (404: page not found)
Bestia homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
CSBoard homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
DreamChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Frenzee homepage down for 279 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly broken promise (move to new homepage) not done after 39 days
Loop homepage down for 27 days (serious clone accusation has ended Loop!)
MFChess homepage down for 33 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Bubble homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Tutorials List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- updated Chess Coach link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_tutorials_list

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Fortress
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_engine_list

FACE Tournament
- ratingslist and PGN downloads are updated; many other updates too
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 1.1.2
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
- a quick bugfix for yesterday's release
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

Drupal 7.2
open source PHP-based content management platform for websites
- older version updated to 6.22
http://drupal.org/home
http://drupal.org/drupal-7.2 (announcement)
http://drupal.org/node/1168946 (7.2 release notes)
http://drupal.org/node/1168950 (6.22 release notes)

FBackup 4.6.253
free, simple backup program
http://www.fbackup.com/

Puppy Linux 'Wary 5.1.2'
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
Puppy is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users. Recommended.
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
- "Wary Puppy is intended to be our on-going commitment to older hardware."
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news & download)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)

µTorrent 3.0 RC 3
open source BitTorrent client
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=98500 (3.0 forum thread)

WordPress 3.1.3
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)
http://wordpress.org/news/2011/05/wordpress-3-1-3/ (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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