Engine Updates

Darky 0.5d (WB/UCI)
C source with Spanish comments; Win32; based on FirstChess code of Pham Hong Nguyen
- "Elo about 1700"
- bugfixed by Tony Mokonen
http://chessprograms.260mb.com/

Rebel Century (WB/UCI)
Ed Schröder's program from 2000, old DOS version modified to run on Win32
Win32
- this engine is donationware; all proceeds will benefit the Warchild charity
http://www.top-5000.nl/donationware.htm

Chess News

Opening books by Pawel Sekowski
- new Polyglot book: V4Vendetta; full version or mini version
http://sekoschess.blogspot.com/p/chess-books.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bestia homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 486 days
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down for 23 days (a 110mb.com site)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
O'Chess homepage down today (not found)
Pyotr homepage down for 23 days (no response in 60 seconds)
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

BurnAware 5.3
CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc-burning software
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html (info)
http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html (download)

CCleaner for Mac 1.05
free registry and file optimization/privacy/cleaning tool; thorough and effective: recommended
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (CCleaner homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2012/10/24/ccleaner-for-mac-v105 (announcement)

Glary Utilities 2.50.0.1632
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

Miranda IM 0.10.8
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.3.0.2
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/

PDFCreator 1.5.1
free Windows tool to create PDF files from nearly any application
http://www.pdfforge.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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