Engine Updates

NG-Play 7.3 (WB)
C source; Win32
http://users.otenet.gr/~yggeorgo/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 44 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down for 8 days (not found)
ChestUCI homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 529 days
Glass homepage down for 4 days (not found)
Gringo homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Hopeless homepage down for 4 days (not found)
InmiChess homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 44 days (a 110mb.com site)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)

Powder project page is now considered dead, it will no longer be tracked.

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- Powder: removed dead link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_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

CodeBlocks 12.11
open source cross-platform C/C++ IDE for all compilers
http://www.codeblocks.org/

IKVM.NET 7.2, RC 5
Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
- this is the version compatible with Java 7
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement)

PHP 5.4.10, RC 1
PHP 5.3.20, RC 1
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language; it is used for web applications mostly
- these are *release candidates*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

PostgreSQL 9.2.2
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1430/ (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org