Engine Updates

Fire 3.0 (UCI)
Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
- silent update, version number unchanged
- rebuild of GEN compiles
- added 'no large pages' builds for WinXP compatibility
http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//fire.htm
http://chesslogik.wix.com/fire

Sayuri 2013.12.14 (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)

Violet 1.2 (UCI)
Win64; own GUI
http://violetchess.com/home

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.245f (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI/tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable build
- added support for Syzygy tablebases
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/ (secondary link)
http://biglion.bplaced.net/ (homepage and download)

Chess Blog Articles

iCE: http://macechess.blogspot.de/2013/12/ice-and-wrong-bishop.html

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

DrMemory 1.6.1-2
cross-platform (Windows or Linux) 32-bit programmer's aid to detect:
access to uninitialized memory, unaddressable memory (including outside of allocated heap units
and heap underflow and overflow), freed memory, double frees, memory leaks, and on Windows
access to un-reserved thread local storage slots and common GDI API usage errors
http://code.google.com/p/drmemory/

Ultimate Edition 3.8
Ubuntu/Mint-based Linux distro; desktops: Awesome, MATE, GNOME, KDE; #26 in popularity
- this release can only install MATE desktop
http://ultimateedition.info/

Meaning of Colors

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

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