Engine Updates

Gaviota 0.74 (WB)
for Win32
"A gazillion changes since 0.33 (6.5 years ago)."
- SMP
- own tablebases. 3-pc tbs included, can build 4's & 5's
- new book (~10 Mb), but it still can use the old one
- 200 or 250 elo points stronger and a very agressive style of play
- supports all the new winboard features, AFAIK
http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/
Note: this is a new link, the old website not updated.

Protector 1.2.9 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64 and Linux32/64
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)
http://protector.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/protector/bin/ (bin files)
Note: Download from above link, regular sourceforge download file not updated yet

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Chaturanga geocities site down 8 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down for 7 days
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 10 days
Frenzee site has no content for 14 days
Zebra Chess down for 15 days
Gosu 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.

Chess News

Polyglot 1.4.51b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- Support for new nps command. Code provided by Harm Geert Muller
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- lots of changes reflecting recent tournament results
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.0.2.40
free disk defragmentation program
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag
with this release it should be equal to MyDefrag: http://www.mydefrag.com/

LameXP 3.1.3
open source program to convert from other audio formats to mp3, Ogg Vorbis, or Nero AAC
Wave, MP3, MP2, OGG/Vorbis, FLAC, MP4/AAC, AC3, DTS, WavPack, Musepack, TTA, Speex, Monkey's Audio, Shorten, ALAC and WMA
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#lamexp

Sysinternals Suite
free trouble-shooting utilities suite from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

Meaning of Colors

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

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