Engine Updates

Arabian Knight 1.2.5 (WB)
Java source; own GUI
- Note: download link *not working* right now...
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/ArabianKnight.html (Leo page)

Delphil 2.8 (UCI)
Win32
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdelp...

Komodo 3.0 (UCI)
Win64, Linux32/64, Mac
- Win64 builds finally ready, but release early in the day only worked on Intel i7 chips; latest builds run on all Win64s
- Win32 builds still not released
"We believe we have approximately 30 ELO of improvement"
http://komodochess.com/

Chess News

BagaturPgnTool 1.0.1
Java source PGN reader & opening book creator for Java programmers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/files/BagaturEngine/

Tarrasch Chess GUI V2 Beta (UCI)
Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- this is a *beta* release
http://triplehappy.wordpress.com/ (announcement & download)
http://www.triplehappy.com/ (homepage)

XBoard Alpha News
by HG Muller
new features:
- playing openings in color-reversed pairs
- replacing a tourney participant
- displaying PVs as SAN
- small scores in the Eval Graph
- how close is the 50-move draw?
- sign of the engine scores
- new-style Move History window (XB)
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html (homepage)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
BSC homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bubble homepage down for 5 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 54 days (broken computer!)
Matacz homepage down for 21 days (a 110mb.com site)
Smash homepage down for 4 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Smaug homepage down for 25 days
Superchessengine homepage down for 68 days (Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer & Smash)
Typhoon homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)

Wiki Changes

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- minor spelling revision
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_list

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- minor spelling revision
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added BagaturChess PGN Tool
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_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

Calibre 0.8.15
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/

FrostWire 5.1.3
open source, Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

LibreOffice 3.4.3 RC 1
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/ (download)

Lunascape 6.5.4
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/

MinGW (32-bit) Distro 7.2
open source distribution for Windows, by Stephan T Lavavej
- contains GCC 4.6.1 and Boost 1.47.0
Note: GCC 4.6.x builds are rarely available for Windows platform
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

Puppy Linux 'Lucid Puppy 5.2.8'
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
- 'Lucid Puppy 5.2.8' is compatible with Ubuntu packages
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news & download)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855 (more info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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