Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 21 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 36 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 12 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Chiron homepage down for 3 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Fianchetto homepage down for 36 days (502: bad gateway)
GreenLightChess homepage down today (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 36 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 20 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 12 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 4 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 21 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 101 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added link for KnightDreamer EGMs
- added link for Yace Bitbases
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_list

Play Chess Online List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Deutscher Fernschachbund
- added FIDE online arena
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:play_chess_online_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

Recuva 1.48
free program to recover deleted files from Recycle Bin, digital cameras, mp3 players etc.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2013/8/12/recuva-v148 (announcement)

Puppy Linux -- Slacko 5.6
Puppy is a popular (#11) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories
- Quirky Puppy is built from Wary and Racy and is very experimental
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00352 (announcement)

Sabayon Linux 13.08
Gentoo-based, rolling release distro; choice of desktops: GNOME, KDE, MATE or Xfce; #18 in popularity
http://www.sabayon.org/

WinPython 3.3.2.2 -- for Win32/64
WinPython 2.7.5.2 -- for Win32/64
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)
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/

Meaning of Colors

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

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