Engine Updates

Carballo rev. 1 (UCI)
new open source Java engine by Alberto Alonso Ruibal from Porriño, Spain
http://www.alonsoruibal.com/dev/chess/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/carballo/ (sourceforge page)
http://carballo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/carballo/ (Subversion code repository)

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Monik 2.2.3 JA (WB) for Win32/64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Protector 1.2.8 (UCI)
revision(s) to the source code today (current = rev. 84)
- some internal changes, nothing affecting game play
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)
latest builds are here:
http://protector.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/protector/bin/ (bin files)

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
BBChess site down today (technical difficulties)
Frenzee site has no content for 2 days
Zebra Chess down for 2 days
Black Bishop site back up
Crafty Chess Interface site back up

Note: GEOCITIES is closing on October 26, 2009.
There are a lot of free engines hosted there that might disappear forever!

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Notepad++ 5.5.1
open source programmer's editor. Recommended!
- the old icon is back!
- bugfixes, etc.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/ (download)

Photosynth 2.0109.1002.1657
free from Microsoft; create a 3D model based on muliple still photos
http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

RJ TextEd 5.70
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm

Meaning of Colors

Red = New
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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