Engine Updates

Deep Junior 13 (UCI)
Commercial; Win32/64, Mac64; mp; limit strength
http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-deep-junior.htm (Win)
http://www.hiarcs.com/mac_chess_junior.htm (Mac)

Houdini Aquarium 3 (UCI)
Commercial; Win32/64; mp; multiPV; FRC; limit strength; supports Nalimov & Gaviots EBTBs and Scorpio bitbases; a reworked Robbolito with many improvements
- this is the same engine that was released 2012/10/15
http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7_55 (Euros)
http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7_56 (US dollars)

Rhetoric Lite (UCI)
Win32; uses a genetic algoritm to 'train' the playing style towards human GM style
- "everything is improved and it shows more ELO"
http://www.chessrhetoric.com/index.php/downloads/viewdownload/1-rhetoric/7-rhetoric

Chess News

Lucas Chess 7.0 dev 6
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
Open source (Python); Win32
- this is a *developmental* (beta) release
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/ (homepage)
https://code.google.com/p/lucaschess/downloads/list (download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 7 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 492 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 7 days (a 110mb.com site)
Norm Pollock site down for 2 days (no response in 60 seconds)
O'Chess homepage down for 7 days (not found)
Postmodernist homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Powder homepage down for 6 days (project removed?)
Pulsar homepage down for 5 days (not found)
Pyotr homepage down for 29 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 7 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

Greenshot 1.0.6.2228
free, open source screenshot capture program for Windows
http://getgreenshot.org/

Soluto 1.3.1028.0
free; uses community-developed power-user solutions to fix your PC problems
http://www.soluto.com/

Thunderbird 16.0.2
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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