Engine Updates
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Chess News

Chess Engines for Android
- added DoubleCheck 2.3
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

ExaChess 4.1 for Mac (UCI)
commercial chess database program with built-in Fruit 2.1 engine
there is a free, severely disabled 'Lite' version too
claimed compatability with Crafty, so it might support WB engines too
- first time listed here
http://exachess.com/

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
"PosFiles (20111220): Formerly "PosBooks". See "Readme for PGN & EPD Databases" for details of the many changes"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 47 days
Damas homepage down for 86 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 176 days

Wiki Changes

Chess Logos List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- revised the Graham Banks logo section
- new Patrick Buchmann section
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_logos_list

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Chess for Android: some minor edits
- ChessPad: added more comments
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- corrected labelling of 'Chess Engine Bundle for Android'
- added new ChessPartner section
- removed Dark Knight for Android
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list

Play Chess Online List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added GM of Logic
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:play_chess_online_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

Aptana Studio 3.0.6
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Firefox 9.0
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

GPartEd Live 0.11.0-7
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Komodo Edit 7.0.0c1
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

VLC 1.1.13
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video)
- fixes a security issue in the TiVo demuxer
http://www.videolan.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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