Engine Updates

Magnum Chess 1.00 (UCI)
new Java chess engine (w/ source) by Ed Stock
http://code.google.com/p/magnumchess/

Xpdnt 091007 (WB)
C source & Win32; probably a Jim Ablett build soon
- I think I fixed the piece give away bug!
http://www.opraus.com/ai/

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Chaturanga geocities site down today, maybe gone forever?
Fianchetto site down for 3 days
Frenzee site has no content for 7 days
Zebra Chess down for 7 days
Aristarch site back up
ChestUCI site back up
Numpty site back up
Prechess site back up
Toledo Nanochess site back up

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

Warning: Fimbulwinter site is reported as an attack site!
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.
Malicious software includes 9 exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Autoruns 9.56
free system information utility from Microsoft
shows what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and the order which Windows processes them
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Autoruns.mspx

Converber 2.2.0
free unit converter (metric to US, currency conversion, etc) with calculator
http://www.xyntec.com/converber.htm

LameXP LameXP 3.1.3
open source music converter; convert from/to all major formats (mp3, ogg vorbis, wave, flac, etc.)
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#lamexp

SQLite 3.6.19
open source SQL database for C programmers
- adds native support for foreign key constraints, including deferred constraints and cascading deletes
- adds support for generalized IS and IS NOT operators
http://www.sqlite.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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