Engine Updates

Ifrit j1_7 (UCI)
Win32; C++ source w/ Russian comments
- Finalized and tested the use of estimates of the hash table
- Added sorting of the root list of moves. Sorting by previous iterations
- Evaluation primitive position. Material + pst. The external file does not use
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fandchess2006.narod.ru%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ru&tl=en

Down chess websites
Akiba site down today
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Chaturanga geocities site down 5 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down for 4 days
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 7 days
Frenzee site has no content for 11 days
Superchessengine site down today (Bibi, Fruit, GambitFruit, Movei, Naum, Patzer, Smash, & Toga)
Zebra Chess down for 12 days

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)

OpenOffice 3.2 Beta
open source word processing, database, chart, math formula editor, spreadsheet, etc
this is a *beta* version, the final release is expected for December
http://download.openoffice.org/next/ (download)
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.2 (new features)

Puppy Linux 4.3.1
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
The most easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users. Recommended.
The default download is single-user, but a multiuser version is available
An intriguing choice is using Puppy in VirtualBox (Run directly from Windows)
http://puppylinux.org/ (homepage)
http://puppylinux.org/news/puplets/puppy421multiuseriso/ (multiuser)
http://puppylinux.org/news/puplets/puppy-linux-in-virtual-machine/ (Puppy in VirtualBox)

RJ TextEd 5.71
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 or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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