Engine Updates

Sjakk 2.0 (WB/UCI)
Win32
- added support for UCI protocol
- own GUI discontinued
- "5 times faster and over 100 ELO stronger"
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~jacobbl/jacob/Sjakk/Sjakk.htm

Chess News

Scidb Beta 2013-04-01, rev 701
a chess database application for Linux/Unix and Windows
- this is a *beta* release for Linux/Unix only
http://scidb.sourceforge.net/index.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Belofte homepage down for 22 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 17 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 20 days (not found)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 17 days (no response in 60 seconds)
MadChess homepage down today (403 error: forbidden)
Pyotr homepage down for 17 days (not found)
SEE homepage down today (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 17 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 2.2.4.1
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)

Ghostery 1.4.2 for Safari
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets on every web page you visit;
"See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
http://www.ghostery.com/download

MinGW (32-bit) Distro 10.0
open source distribution for Windows, by Stephan T Lavavej
- distro update: GCC 4.8.0
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

Slackel 3.0 "Openbox"
Slackware/Salix-based Linux distro; KDE & Openbox desktops; #69 in popularity
http://www.slackel.gr/

UltraDefrag 6.0.1
open source defrag program for Windows
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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