Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Arabian Knight 1.51 JA (WB)
BremboCE 0.6.2 JA (WB)
Carballo 0.5 rev 110 Jet JA (UCI)
Flux Chess 2.2 JA (UCI)
Frank-Walter 1.08 JA (WB)
Frittle 1.0 JA (WB)
JavaRival 00.94 JA (UCI)
King's Out 0.2.42 JA (WB)
Magnum Chess 3.0.0 (r20) JA (UCI)
Mediocre Chess 0.4 JA (UCI)
Pyotr 0.6/2.6 Amateur/Novice JA (WB)
Ziggy 0.7 JA (UCI)
- these are new compiles of older versions
- Lauch4J compiles added so can be used in Fritz
http://jimablett.net63.net/ (scroll down the page to the Java section)

Chess News

Chess for Android 3.1.6 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
- pgn parsing made more acceptimg of errors
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Liit 0.8.1 Beta
- plays on a 6x6 board (Los Alamos chess variant)
https://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/home
https://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/home

Lucas Chess 6.2
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
http://lucaschess.host22.com/ (homepage)
http://lucaschess.host22.com/novedades.htm (changes)

XBoard Alpha News
new and experimental features for the next release by HG Muller
- new section: "Keeping track of what was excluded"
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 280 days

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

MariaDB 5.2.11 Stable
MariaDB 5.1.61 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- these are updates to older versions
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5211-release-notes (5.2.11 release notes)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5161-release-notes (5.1.61 release notes)

SumatraPDF 2.0
free, open-source minimalistic PDF/mobi/chm/etc reader for Windows; it is a
portable app
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

VirtualBox 4.1.12
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 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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