Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
GnuChess 5.08 JA (WB)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
versioning for GnuChess 5 is confusing; this one is by Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Antonio Ceballos, Simon Waters
this one contains *some* of the bugfixes by Michel Van den Bergh
http://jimablett.hostwebs.com/

Purple Haze 2.0.0 (WB)
new engine by Vincent Ollivier
C++ source
- available as source code only right now. Jim?
https://github.com/vinc/purplehaze

neural-net learning engines based on Stockfish and Grapefruit
available as source code only
neuroStock http://github.com/m00natic/neuroStock
neuroGrape http://github.com/m00natic/neuroGrape
neuroChessTrainer http://github.com/m00natic/neuroChessTrainer

Chess News

WinBoard 4.5.0
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6705 (announcement)
Windows trial build (installer):
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5.0.exe (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

AICE homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Aldebaran homepage down for 45 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Fianchetto homepage down for 22 days (configuration error)
Frenzee homepage down for 167 days (webpage taken down until new engine release)
Genesis homepage down for 20 days
Sibyl homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Sorgenkind homepage down for 33 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 31 days
Amyan homepage back up
Smash homepage back up

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

Git 1.7.4
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt (release notes)

Komodo Edit 6.1.0
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

Process Hacker 2.11
open source; examine/manipulate running processes/services
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

RJ TextEd 7.11
free programmer's text editor; unicode, spell-checking, code-completion, remote editing, etc
- almost certainly a quick bugfix for yesterday's 7.10 release
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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NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.

Hi,

there are some more engines on git like:

https://github.com/zmyrgel/tursas/tree/ or am I wrong ?

Michael

Hi Michael,

Tursas is written in Clojure, which is a programming language for the Java virtual machine. If someone could build this code into a jar file, then I would list it, because then everyone would be able to run it as if it was a Java program. But the Clojure code on the website cannot be run.

In the case of the Purple Haze program, my daily scan of its SourceForge page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/purplehaze/
showed a new link to its new homepage on GitHub and, unlike at SF, the new location had code. Since it was written in C++, I asked Jim Ablett to build it for the chess community. I knew that Jim would do the build, so it was safe for me to announce it.

For Tursas there is no one to build it for us.

Ron