Engine Updates

Protector 1.2.9 (UCI)
3 revision(s) to the source code today (current = rev. 102), no new release
also, former bin directory has been deleted
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Brutus site down for 2 days
Chaturanga geocities site down 10 days, maybe gone forever?
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fimbulwinter site down for 2 days (fixing viruses?)
Frenzee site has no content for 16 days
GreKo site down today (403 error)
Smirf site down today
Zebra Chess down for 17 days
Crafty Chess Interface site back up after being down for 9 days
Fianchetto site back up after being down down for 11 days
Heracles site back up
KnightX site back up
NSVChess site back up
TheCrazyBishop site back up
WJChess site back up

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

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)

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta
open source cross-platform IDE for many programming languages . Recommended!
(Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaFX, JavaScript, Ajax, Scala, and Groovy)
Beside the normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collabrative programming
this is a *beta* release
http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/68/ (info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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