Engine Updates

IvanHoe 999952a (UCI)
Ippolit derivative; mp; the version numbers, annoyingly, count down instead of up
http://www.chesslogik.com/ivanhoe.htm

Redqueen 0.5 (UCI)
1 commit(s) to the C++ source code (commits= 324), no new build
- 324: fixed bugs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redqueenchess

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.193 (WB/UCI)
a nice chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
- startup optimization of RRs/Gauntlets with 1,000s of games
http://biglion.110mb.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new EPD program: bmOpcode outputs list of "bm" codes from Arena's analysis.log
- new EPD program: smOpcode outputs list of "sm" codes from a pgn file
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex homepage down for 98 days
Amundsen homepage down for 103 days (Permissions problem)
Bearded homepage down for 19 days
Feuerstein homepage down for 38 days (probably dead)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down for 2 days
Pyotr homepage down for 2 days
Thinker Microsoft Skydrive homepage back up

Wiki Changes
Nothing new 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

Calibre 0.7.12
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

mIRC 7.1
popular Internet Relay Chat client
- mostly a Unicode conversion
http://www.mirc.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mirc.com/news.html (new changes info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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