Engine Updates

Dirty 11AUG2011 (WB)
Win32/64
"It has not been intensively tuned but hopefully it is a bit stronger."
- changes in search and eval
- bugs fixed
http://www.dirtychess.com/

Chess News

Chess for Android 2.9.3 (UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android phone
- Last version was 2.9.2; Aart's andorid page says 2.93; Aart's blog calls this 2.94???
"This version introduces the much requested "infinite analysis" mode for an imported UCI engine, in which the engine reports its analysis of the position without actually making moves."
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

Lantern Chess 4.38 (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB & UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac
http://www.lanternchess.com/ (homepage)
http://www.adammr.com/lanternhelp/lantern-help.html (help)

UCI Engines for Android
Aart Bik's free chess engines for the Android phone; the engines can be used with Aart's free Chess for Android GUI
- DoubleCheck 1.2 (UCI)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 46 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 13 days (a 110mb.com site)
Smaug homepage down for 17 days
Superchessengine homepage down for 60 days (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash & Toga II)

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

AntiVir Personal 10.2.0.700 Free
free; highly-rated antivirus product (nagware); recommended
http://www.free-av.com/en/products/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

CDBurnerXP 4.3.8.2631
open source CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software for Win32/64; recommended
this program requires .NET framework; Media Format 9.0 update required if using WMA format
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download (homepage & download)

FreeFileSync 3.20
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Maxthon 3.1.5.1000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

PHP 5.3.7 RC 5
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language mostly used for web applications
- this is a *release candidate*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

System Explorer 3.0.6
free; detailed info about Windows tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graphs monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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