Engine Updates

Glass 1.6 (UCI)
Win32
no change to the engine, version number not updated
- added some missing personality files
- glass.pdf info file updated
- opening book updated
http://www.marittima.pl/glass

Chess News

Chess Hero 2.2
free chess trainer; produces test positions from PGN files
compares your best move to your favorite WB/UCI chess engine's choice
- new PGN setting: max time to find best move
- new PGN setting: filter moves by half-move ordinal
- new "Paste Position" command
- new UCI engine configurator
- improved PGN parser
- added new graphics
- added new customization options
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- (pgn)"ecoExtract": code rewritten, new instructions
- (pgn)"summary": added plycount and ECO statistics
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex homepage down for 86 days ("Temporarily Unavailable")
Amundsen homepage down for 91 days (Permissions problem)
Bearded homepage down for 7 days
CuckooChess homepage down for 13 days
Feuerstein homepage down for 26 days (probably dead)
SDChess homepage down for 12 days, but the narod site is up

Note: Numpty removed from list, new direct download links have been added to
the Chess Engine List

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Numpty direct download links
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added MSKCP
- added Simon
- added TSCP
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_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

FileZilla Server 0.9.36
open source ftp server: recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/

NetBeans Scala plugin 6.9v1.1.0
Scala language plugin for Netbeans IDE
- meant for NetBeans 6.9 w/ Scala 2.8.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/erlybird/files/nb-scala/ (project page)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/erlybird/files/ (download page)

Meaning of Colors

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

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