Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Lucas Chess 7.0, dev 10.2
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
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

Akkad homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Armageddon homepage down for 5 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Bestia homepage down for 64 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down for 28 days (not found)
ChestUCI homepage down for 12 days (a 110mb.com site)
Deep Saros homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Jonny 4 homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 64 days (a 110mb.com site)
MatMoi homepage down for 6 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 12 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

Feng Office 2.2.2
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)

NetBSD 6.0.1
BSD_based Linux distro; desktops: AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #81 in popularity
http://www.netbsd.org/

SMPlayer 0.8.3
cross-platform graphical interface for MPlayer media player
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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