Update Information: October 6, 2016 (Updates)

by Ron , Thursday, October 06, 2016, 19:14

Engine Updates

AdaChess 2.1 (XB)
Ada source; Linux, Win
- not new, but new to me; release date was 2015.09.25
http://www.g-sei.org/adachess/ (G-Sei)
http://www.adachess.com/download (homepage)

Dann Corbit Windows builds
CFish 2016.10.05 DC (UCI)
- this is an unofficial build of the CFish project, which is an unofficial C port of Stockfish
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zfnehxzq7erybv/Cfish-master.7z?dl=0 (direct link)

Chengine (XB)
new source-code-only engine by Henning Sperr
C source
- not new, but new to me; program was written in 2012
https://github.com/hsperr/Chengine

ChessBotUCI 10x12 (UCI)
new engine by Alexander Hörtenhuber
Java source
- engine is horribly named and easily confused with ChessBot by Johannes Haupt
https://github.com/lexho/ChessBot

Crafty 25.1 (XB)
C++ source; mp; limit strength; Linux, Mac, Win
https://github.com/MichaelB7/Crafty (source)
http://www.craftychess.com/downloads/source/ (source)
http://craftychess.com/

Dann Corbit Windows builds
Crafty 25.1 DC (UCI)
- this is an unofficial build of the Crafty source code
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqv7cv4ad6mm9rf/crafty-25.1.7z?dl=0

Daydreamer 2.0.0 pre2 (UCI)
Rust source; FRC, MultiPV; Linux, Mac, Win; supports Scorpio endgame bitbases
- original program, written in C, has been ported to Rust
https://github.com/AaronBecker/daydreamer/releases

Drosophila 1.4 (XB)
new engine by Gustaf Ullberg
Linux, Win
- not new, but new to me; engine was released 2015-03-06
- engine is successor to Pawned engine (also missed)
https://github.com/gustafullberg/drosophila

Embla 0.9.4.1 (UCI)
mp (INT_MAX cores); supports Syzygy ebtbs; Linux, Mac, Win
- fix for segfault in cutechess
http://www.vanheusden.com/Embla/

Ghost 3 Beta (XB)
Linux, Win
- not new, but new to me
http://www.ghostchess.de/

Gull LazyGull Alpha 0.2 BF (UCI)
this is an unofficial Gull fork by Basil Falcinelli adding Syzygy support & other changes
https://github.com/basil00/Gull/releases

Sunsetter 9 (XB/UCI)
C++ source; Win; also plays crazyhouse and bughouse variants
- "maybe 80-100 Elo stronger than version 8"
https://github.com/georgvonzimmermann/Sunsetter/releases

WyldChess 2016.10.06 (XB)
new engine by 'Mk-Chan'
C source; Linux, Win
https://github.com/Mk-Chan/WyldChess/tree/master/binaries (Win exe files)
https://github.com/Mk-Chan/WyldChess (homepage)

Zeta Dva 0303 (XB)
C source; Linux, Win
https://github.com/smatovic/ZetaDva/tree/master/bin

Chess News

Lucas Chess 10.03
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
Python source; Win32
- contains 36 engines
- also available as a portable build
http://www-lucaschess.rhcloud.com (homepage)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

updates by Gerhard:

Gull page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:gull

Main page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:index

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner:

Engine GUI List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Java Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:java_engine_list

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_engine_list

Variants Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Advisory:

- 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

NOTE: I had an argument with Microsoft. I thought I owned my computer, they thought they did. Microsoft won by cheating: they clobbered my sys admin settings. Microsoft won the battle, but lost the war. If I can't trust a company to do an update, how can I trust it at all? All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

7-Zip 16.04
open source, cross-platform file archiver with good compression; supports several compression methods
- this is an important security bugfix release
http://www.7-zip.org

Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.162
free cross-platform flash video player for browsers
- Flash is in undisputed first-place as the most common avenue of infection
- Adobe bundles unwanted 3rd party crapware, beware!
- this release fixes a dangerous zero-day vulnerability
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Drupal 8.2.0
Drupal 7.51
open source PHP-based content management platform for easy website creation
http://drupal.org/home

FileZilla Client 3.22.1
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)

Git 2.10.1
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

Jenkins 2.24
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

KDE Neon 5.8
Ubuntu(LTS)-based Linux distro; KDE desktop; #45 in popularity
https://neon.kde.org/

NetBeans IDE 8.2
open source cross-platform IDE used primarily for Java-based programming languages
(supports C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Groovy, with 3rd party plug-ins for other languages)
supports syntax highlighting, code completion, object browsing, refactoring + more
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
http://netbeans.org/
https://netbeans.org/community/releases/82/ (info)

Q4OS 1.6.3
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); Trinity desktop; #44 in popularity
http://q4os.org/

SystemRescueCD 4.8.3
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
- features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

Thunderbird 45.4.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Wireshark 2.2.1 Stable
open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for advanced users
http://www.wireshark.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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