Engine Updates

Updates are late due to down Internet connection!

Arabian Knight 1.22 (WB)
Java source; own GUI
- -fixed bug in free pawn award
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html (Leo page)

ChessKISS 1.3 (WB)
new engine by Abel Belzunces
program has been around for several months but was unnoticed
Pascal source; Win32
http://meandmybits.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.mediafire.com/?fo1ut3d4ydsy9b8 (exe direct link)
http://www.mediafire.com/?cntq9sfanabbq86 (source direct link)

Supra 3.1.3 (UCI)
Win32
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (Portugeuse)
http://www.suprachesssystem.com/ (English)

Chess News

Chess for Android 2.9.5 (UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android phone
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

ChessZone Magazine
free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
- # 8, 2011
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Lantern Chess 4.39 (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)

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new EPD program: epdSame - extracts records where the two sides have identical material
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 49 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 16 days (a 110mb.com site)
Smaug homepage down for 20 days
Superchessengine homepage down for 63 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

Miranda IM 0.9.27
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

USBDeview 1.92
free utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

VirtualBox 4.1.2
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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