Engine Updates

Naum 4.2 (WB/UCI)
Commercial; mp; FRC; Win32/64
http://naumchess.brinkster.net/

Chess News

Little chess evaluation compendium
by Ludmil Tsvetkov
"This is a pdf format document containing evaluation ideas &
improvements which chess programmers may find useful and of interest."
Scroll down to 'Other Chess Tools And Utilities' section
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

SCID
PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI
3 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 573)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Down/Problem chess websites BabyChess homepage down for 37 days
BabyChess down for 38 days
Betsy homepage down for 75 days
BlackBishop homepage down today
Blitzer homepage down for 9 days
Brama homepage down for 2 days
Colossus homepage down for 81 days
Kenny Dail (Mac) builds site down for 53 days
Dika homepage down for 3 days
Gosu homepage down for 8 days
Denis P. Mendoza builds site down today
Sinobyl homepage down for 27 days
Alex homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added The Baron
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

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 occasionally crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Cobian Backup 10.0.1.547
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
- speed of the backup has been increased about 200%
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Firefox 3.6.2
very popular open source browser from Mozilla. Recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Opera 10.51
open source web browser, most standards-compliant rendering
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

Task Coach 1.0.0
open source cross-platform todo manager with calendar viewing
http://www.taskcoach.org/

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
free developer stuff from Microsoft
- Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs
http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2010/03/18/now-available-visual-studio-2010-release-candidate-virtual-machines-with-sa...

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

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