Engine Updates

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Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated EPD database: mateInX
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

PyChess 0.12 Beta 1 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)
chess GUI + engine + online play (FICS)
Linux only; FRC, variants
http://pychess.org/ (homepage)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 11 days ("this site has been suspended")
Bestia homepage down for 31 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChestUCI homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)
DarkFUSc# homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Dolphin homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Hopeless homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
InmiChess homepage down for 6 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Kitteneitor project page down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities page down for 31 days (a 110mb.com site)
Pyotr homepage down for 6 days (not found)
RDChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
SecondChess project page down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 6 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- updated pages: ratings page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

ActivePerl Community Edition
free cross-platform Perl distribution including the most popular Perl libraries
- Perl 5.16.3.1603
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

Avira AntiVir Personal 13.0.0.3499
free; highly-rated antivirus product with very annoying pop-up ads accompanying virus signature updates
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Codelite 5.1.0
excellent open source cross-platform IDE for all C/C++ compilers
Features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion, function call tips, more
http://codelite.org/

Glary Utilities 2.54.0.1759
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security for Windows
- quick bugfix for yesterday's release
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

Qt Creator 2.7.0
open source cross-platform IDE for C/C++ and JavaScript
Features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion, function call tips, more
although the IDE encourages using Qt libraries, the choice is not forced
http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/downloads#qt-creator (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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