Engine Updates

Chesley the Chess Engine (WB)
1 new commit(s) to the C++ source, (rev = 323), no new release
latest build: r322 JA(Win32/64)
- small adjustment to null move logic; we will now try a null move if we are not in check
and have at least one non-pawn left on the board
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Chess-at-nite 10.1.31 (WB)
new engine by Franziskus Domig, Panayiotis Lipiridis, Radoslav Petrik and Thai Gia Tuong
C++ source; Win32, Linux32 & Mac
http://code.google.com/p/chess-at-nite/ (project page)
http://www.petrik.us/projects/ChessComputer.pdf (project description)

Plisk 0.2.3h (WB/UCI)
Win32/64, AMD64, & Linux32
quick bugfix update to yesterday's release
- fixed a bug related to calculating pawn attacks and hashing
http://sites.google.com/site/pliskchess/

Redqueen 0.4 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 196), no new build
- r196: improving search; implemented delta pruning in qsearch
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

XBoard alpha for Mac
new compiles of the latest XBoard alpha by 'Darklord42'
http://darklordmusicstop.zoomshare.com/files/xboardalpha.zip

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 21 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 26 days
Blitzter homepage down for 63 days
Brama homepage down for 55 days
ChessMind homepage down for 11 days
Colossus homepage down for 134 days
Dika homepage down for 56 days
Igor Gorelikov Tools site down today
Gosu homepage down for 61 days
Lokasoft site down today (ChessTiger, Ktulu, SmarThink, etc)
Nesik homepage down for 30 days
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (17 days)
Pyotr homepage down today
Sinobyl homepage down for 80 days
Sissa homepage down for 22 days
Wilhelm homepage down for 5 days
InmiChess homepage back up
Mscp homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Pa-project to source-code-only list
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

Cobian Backup 10.0.3.762
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Digital Mars D Compiler 1.061 & 2.046 alpha
free compiler for Win32, Linux32 & Mac; an interesting OO language
version 1.061 is the latest stable release; 2.046 is an *alpha* release
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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