Engine Updates

Butterfly 0.2.6 (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64
http://sites.google.com/site/butterflychess/

Plisk 0.2.2 (WB/UCI)
Win32/64, AMD64, & Linux32
- fixed bugs in passed pawns and isolani pawns eval and hashing
- improved king safety evaluation
- added ponder
http://sites.google.com/site/pliskchess/

Redqueen 0.4 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 175), no new build
- refactoring of SimplePVSearch class
- search function was improved
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 586)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 10 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 15 days
Betsy homepage down for 116 days
Blitzter homepage down for 52 days
Brama homepage down for 44 days
Colossus homepage down for 123 days
Delphil
Dika homepage down for 45 days
Gosu homepage down for 50 days
Nesik homepage down for 29 days
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (6 days)
Sinobyl homepage down for 69 days
Sissa homepage down for 11 days
AICE homepage back up
Armageddon homepage back up
ChestUCI homepage back up
Sibyl homepage back up

Wiki Changes
No changes 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

FBackup 4.4.205
free, simple backup program
http://www.fbackup.com/ (hompage)
http://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/fbackup/dlfbackup.html (direct link)

Glary Utilities 2.22.0.896
free; cleanup, repair, optimize, enhance privacy & security, etc.
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta
open source cross-platform IDE for many programming languages. Recommended!
(Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, JavaFX, JavaScript, Ajax, Scala, Groovy, etc.)
supports normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
this is a *beta* release
"The final release of NetBeans 6.9 is planned for June 2010"
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)
http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.9/beta/ (beta page)

Meaning of Colors

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

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