Engine Updates

Ares 1.003 (UCI)
Win32
"over 100 Elo stronger than Ares 1.0"
http://www.thorstenczub.de/ares.html
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Ares.html

Deuterium 09.01.26.492 (WB)
Win32; lots of changes since last release in 2006
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Deuterium.html

Kenny Dail Mac builds
- Gray Matter 1584-Mac KD (WB) for Mac only
http://www.sillygreenmonkey.com/chess/

Protector 1.3.2 (UCI)
1 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (current = rev. 176), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

RobboLito
yesterday's 0.085g2 release has been retracted, back to version 0.085e4 from Nov 22
http://www.cyclonechess.com/robbolito.htm

Tiffanys 0.5 (WB)
1 revision(s) to the Java source code today (current = rev. 65), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Down chess websites
Smirf site down for 60 days
WildCat site down today
Kenny Dail (Mac) site back up
Note: I'm not going to track Sourceforge unreliablity any more. There's troubles almost always
Warning: Lyapko site is an attack site and dangerous to visit

Chess News

ChessBin 0.0.5.9
Play as black or white against the computer (*not* a WB or UCI engine)
this C# chess engine by Adam Berent requires .NET 2.0
- there is now a separate WinBoard compatible version available (command line only)
http://www.chessbin.com/page/Download-Chess-Bin-Chess-Game.aspx

iGrandMaster 1.0
commercial program
new version for the iPod/iPhone/iTouch announced with new web site
no download available yet
http://www.iGrandmaster.de

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

MPlayer 2009-12-20
open source media player for Windows
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

OpenOffice 3.2 RC 1
open source word processing, database, chart, math formula editor, spreadsheet, etc
this is a *release candidate* version
- biggest new feature is support for ODF file format, lots of other improvements
http://download.openoffice.org/next/index.html (download)
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/rc1.html (release notes)

RJ TextEd 5.80
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
http://www.rj-texted.se/index.htm (homepage)
http://www.rj-texted.se/download.htm (download page)

Meaning of Colors

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

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