Engine Updates

EXchess 7.03 (WB)
C++ source; mp; own GUI; FRC; limit strength; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac
- fixed a pondering bug related to the use of tablebases
- speed improvements
- "should be a bit stronger (+10 Elo perhaps)"
http://personal.denison.edu/%7Ehomand/EXchess.htm

Chess News

Scid 4.4
cross-platform, open source PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid (project page)
http://scid.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html (download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 19 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 14 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 17 days (not found)
InmiChess homepage down for 14 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Jim Ablett main page down for 5 days ("suspended due to overtraffic")
Pyotr homepage down for 14 days (not found)
RDChess homepage down for 9 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 14 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Ron Murawski
- removed List open source link: author has removed the code
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

Calibre 0.9.25
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

NetBeans IDE 7.3, Patch 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
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/73/ (new features info)
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB73 (highlights)
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)

SQLite 3.7.16.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "a bug fix release"
- fix a bug in the query optimizer
- several other patches to fix obscure (and mostly harmless) bugs
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_16.html (changelog)

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