Engine Updates

Danasah 4.88 (WB/UCI)
C source (Spanish language comments); Linux; FRC; uses Scorpio bitbases and ProDeo opening book
- bugfix for crash and lost in time
- changed code for the protocol xboard
- changed code in the search
- no strength tested
http://sites.google.com/site/danasah/last

Deep Junior 13 (UCI)
commercial; mp; limit strength; Win32/64, Mac32/64
http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-deep-junior.htm

Exchess 6.10 Beta (WB)
C++ source; limit strength
- silent update, no version number change; this is the source code only version
- fixed "a bug in reading the score.par file" during initialization
http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Exchess 6.10 Beta JA (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Android; limit strength
http://jimablett.net63.net/

Julien Marcel Mac builds
Exchess 6.10 JM Mac (WB)
C++ source; Mac; limit strength
http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/EXchess_v610_source.zip

Waxman 2011 (WB)
Win32
- this version probably has been available for a while
- there was a Waxman 2010 version that I missed too
http://www.waxman2008.com/whatsnew.html

Rybka 1.0 Beta
provided coutesy of Ed Schröder as a reference decompilation
- this is source code file generated from decompiling the exe file
- the file contains errors and does not compile back into a Rybka exe
http://www.top-5000.nl/sourcecode.htm

Chess News

Olivier Deville's PGN collection
also a Polyglot book based on all the PGN games
"Games from 2001 to 2011"
- minimum Elo = 2530
- only long time control games
- no annotations
- no computer games
- no games under 20 moves
http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated TXT program: txtLines (outputs most tokens in a line)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 89 days
Bestia homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
ChessAlex homepage is down for 42 days
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 218 days
GreKo homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Hiarcs homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
iCE homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down today (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

Aptana Studio 3.0.8
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 10.0
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

GIMP 2.6.12
Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP); retouch photos, create drawings & renderings, etc.
- available as a tarball only (source code)
http://www.gimp.org/

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

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.60.1
free Windows anti-virus; detect and remove malware that others fail to detect
free version does *not* allow memory resident protection
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

SeaMonkey 2.7
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Thunderbird 10.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Wise Disk Cleaner 6.32 for Windows
free; nagware; finds and deletes temporary/log/junk files from your PC
- first time listed here
http://www.wisecleaner.com/wisediskcleanerfree.html

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

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