Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win builds
Komodo 1.2 JA (UCI)
Win32/64, Linux32/64
- improved king safety and pawn structure
- fix to book reading code
- about 25 ELO stronger than Komodo 1.0 (or 10 ELO stronger than 1.1)
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html
http://www.file-upload.net/download-2519072/komodoBook.zip.html (opening book)

NOTE: Deep Saros engine has added some opening books
http://digilander.libero.it/taioscacchi/programmi/saros-page.html

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.181 experimental (WB/UCI)
Nice chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh
- bugfix for borrowed opening book
http://www.hugedrive.com/published/WG/show.php?q=QklHTElPTg==-fcb02b51 (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex homepage down for 27 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 32 days
Blitzter homepage down for 69 days
Brama homepage down for 61 days
Colossus homepage down for 140 days
Dika homepage down for 62 days
Gosu homepage down for 67 days
Mizar homepage down for 2 days ("down for maintenance")
Nesik homepage down for 36 days
Numpty homepage closed until further notice (23 days)
Sinobyl homepage down for 86 days
Sissa homepage down for 28 days
Wilhelm homepage down for 11 days
InmiChess homepage back up after being down for 3 days

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- lots of new results posted by Gerhard including updated ratings and tournament games
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

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

Lunascape 6.1.4
free browser with all 3 major rendering engines: IE (Trident)+Firefox(Gecko)+Chrome/Safari (Webkit)
preview web pages side-by-side using the 3 different rendering engines
http://www.lunascape.tv/

MyDefrag 4.3.0
free disk defragmentation program that optimizes Windows performance
http://www.mydefrag.com/

MyLittleForum 2.2.1
open source PHP forum software; this forum is powered by it; Recommended!
http://mylittleforum.net/download

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