Engine Updates

Deep Fritz 13 (CB)
commercial; skill levels; mp ('deep' versions only); Win32/64
- €99.90 Euros, or $105.47 US Dollars
http://www.chessbase-shop.com/en/products/deep_fritz_13

Chess News

LittleBlitzer 2.74 (UCI)
Windows tournament manager program for UCI chess engines at fast time controls by Nathan Thom
- added extra decimal of precision to the avg depth per engine output
http://kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littleblitzer.php

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Chad's Chess homepage down for 38 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChestUCI homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 345 days
SDChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony Mokonen download page down for 9 days (Tony's engine site is fine)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Arena: added link for Alex Guerrero's Arena Book to PGN conversion program
- updated Penguin link
- added Alex Guerrero's PolyglotGUI
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Links
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added link for Alex Guerrero's Arena Book to PGN conversion program
- SSDF: revised comment/link a bit
- removed SzG Swiss by Gábor Szöts
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links

PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- updated Penguin link
- added PGNExtract GUI
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Szint (Ivanhoe with personalities)
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_engine_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

Miranda IM 0.9.50
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

SeaMonkey 2.10
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Thunderbird 13.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

TThrottle 5.60
free Windows laptop utility to keep cpu/gpu temperature down by throtttling performance
http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/

Waterfox 13.0 PL 1 (64-bit Browser)
64-bit version of Firefox browser
- quick bugfix for yesterday's release
http://waterfoxproject.org/

Wireshark 1.8.0 RC 1
open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for advanced users
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.wireshark.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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