Engine Updates
Nothing new today

Chess News

Chess Hero 2.4
free chess trainer; produces test positions from PGN files
compares your best move to your favorite WB/UCI chess engine's choice
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new TXT program: txtRandom- outputs the lines of the input file randomly rearranged
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 87 days
ChessAlex homepage is down for 40 days
Dann Corbit homepage down for 216 days
FirstChess download page down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)

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

PeaZip 4.4
open source cross-platform file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
- extract 130+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/4.4/ (4.4 download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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