Engine Updates

ProDeo 1.83c (WB/UCI)
Win32
- estimated Elo gain (+32), error margin (+12 -12)
- calculates almost one ply deeper during about all stages of the game
http://www.top-5000.nl/index.htm
http://www.top-5000.nl/prodeo183c.htm

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akkad homepage down for 29 days (not found)
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Deep Saros homepage down for 29 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Zpionka
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Deep Saros: removed a comment
- RyanFish: updated link
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

Comodo Dragon Internet Browser 24.0
Windows only; free; based on Google's Chrome browser, with improved security and privacy
stops cookies, no web spies, prevents browser download tracking, etc
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Fedora 18
independent Linux distro; desktops: GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Xfce; #4 in popularity
http://fedoraproject.org/

FrostWire 5.5.2
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

IKVM.NET 7.2, Update 1, RC 0
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)

PDFCreator 1.6.2
free Windows tool to create PDF files from nearly any application
http://www.pdfforge.org/

Scribus 1.4.2
open-source, cross-platform page layout / desktop publishing program
http://www.scribus.net/

Slax 7.0.4
Slackware-based Linux distro; desktops: KDE, Blackbox; #34 in popularity
http://www.slax.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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