Engine Updates

Chiron 2 (WB/UCI)
commercial, FRC, mp; multiPV; adjust strength; supports Polyglot opening books; supports Nalimov, Gaviota, & Scorpio egtbs; Win32/64
- "about 40 Elo points stronger than Chiron 1.5"
- removed support for CTG books
http://www.chironchess.com/news/34-news/77-chiron-2-released (announcement)
http://www.chironchess.com/

Fire 3.0 (UCI)
Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
- silent update, version number unchanged
- new non-AVX builds
http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//fire.htm
http://chesslogik.wix.com/fire

NapoleonPP 2013-10-18 (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
- adopted some C++11 idioms
- bug fixes inside Transposition table
- complete refactoring in Transposition table low level construction
- added chopper pruning method
- UCI GUIs can now set Transposition table size with "setoption" command
- improved move ordering + some bugs found and fixed
- now using Mersenne pseudo-random number generator for Zobrist hashing
- improved time management
- enhanced aspiration re-search efficiency
- general refactoring
- probably some more points of Elo (50-100 estimated)
https://github.com/crybot/Napoleon (project)
http://www.pierotofy.it/pages/sorgenti/dettagli/19273-Napoleon/ (Italian page)
http://www.pierotofy.it/pages/projects/files.php?id=639 (alt downloads)
http://github.com/crybot/Napoleon/tree/master/bin/ (new builds)

Sayuri 2013.12.13 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); Linux64
- Linux64 compile is available
- otherwise it is available as source code only
- intended for clang compiler using cmake
- it looks like these releases are nightly builds
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/tree/master/SayuriCompiled/Linux/For64Bit (Linux64)
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases (source + Linux build)

Chess News

Nothing new today

Chess Blog Articles

Arasan: http://arasanchess.org/blogs/dec13.html

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Cute Chess-CLI: updated a link
- added HFT-Stuttgart GDV 2013 Schach
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Stockfish-GUI for Mac: added comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added MobiChess and MobileChessBoard
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list

Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Cassette Chess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_engine_list

Variants Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Duell
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_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 crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Avira AntiVir Personal 14.0.2.286 Free
antivirus product; the free version pops up annoying intermittent ads
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Calibre 1.15.0
cross-platform open source ebook manager supporting all popular ebook readers
with format conversion, news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Feng Office 2.4.0.6
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)

GParted Live 0.17.0-1 Stable
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Greenshot 1.1.7.17
free, open source screenshot capture program for Windows
http://getgreenshot.org/

Winamp 5.666
free Windows media player
- this will be the last release, the project is now dead
http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en

Meaning of Colors

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

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