Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akkad homepage down for 41 days (not found)
Bestia homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Deep Saros homepage down for 41 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
Merlin homepage down for 12 days (503 error: service unavailable)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

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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

Foxit Reader 5.4.5.0124
free Windows pdf viewer; faster render than Adobe, less bloat; recommended
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

Git 1.8.1.2
free, cross-platform, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/

NetBeans IDE 7.3 RC 1
open source cross-platform IDE used primarily for Java-based programming languages;
(supportss C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Groovy, etc.)
supports syntax highlighting, code completion, object browsing, refactoring, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
- this is a *release candidate*
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/73/ (new features info)
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.3.0.4
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE for 32-/64-bit development
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/

WinPython 3.3.0.0 Beta 2
open-source portable distribution of Python for Windows32/64
allows use of different Python versions that are fully isolated from each other
WinPython is the easiest way of getting Spyder IDE working on Win32/64
NumPy, SciPy and Matplot are also included
- this is a large file to download (more than 200 MB)
- this is an *beta* release
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/

Meaning of Colors

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

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