Engine Updates

Fire 1.5 xTreme
C source; Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//fire.htm

Chess News

Arasan 13 Testsuite
epd testsuite from Jon Dart
- testsuit updated and corrected
http://www.arasanchess.org/arasan13.epd (direct link)

Xboard Hgmaster Branch Beta for Mac
- a new compile of the latest beta version
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qp1d876v8iuocrp/Xboard%20Hgmaster%20Branch%20Beta.zip (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 52 days (404: page not found)
Frenzee homepage down for 285 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly broken promise (move to new homepage) not done after 45 days
Loop homepage down for 33 days (it seems that Loop is a Fruit clone!)
MFChess homepage down for 39 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Norm Pollock site down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Trace homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
CSBoard homepage back up
DreamChess homepage back up

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

Eclipse SDK 4.1 RC 3
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- this is a *release candidate* for Eclipse plugin developers
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/e4/sdk/drops/S-4.1RC3-201105292200/index.php (download)

Lunascape 6.5.0
free browser with all 3 major rendering engines: IE(Trident)+Firefox(Gecko)+Chrome/Safari(Webkit)
developers can preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

MySQL Community Server 5.5.13
free (Community Server Edition only!), and very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

Notepad++ 5.9.1
open source programmer's editor. Recommended!
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Opera 11.50 Beta 1
open source web browser: the most standards-compliant rendering
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Wireshark 1.4.7
open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for advanced users
- this is the *stable* version
http://www.wireshark.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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