Engine Updates

DeepSaros 4.1.6 (UCI)
mp (12 cpus); FRC; Win32/64, Linux64; this is an IvanHoe derivative
- beware of the browser pop-under ad when downloading!
- implemented a rudimentary function of contempt
- several optimizations, to make the search faster and more efficient
- value of the units and the weights of the positional factors have been balanced
http://deep-saros.blogspot.it/ (homepage)

Djinn 1.007 (WB)
Win32/64, Linux64
- at the moment only available for Win32
http://webpages.charter.net/tlikens/index.html

GreKo 10.3 (WB/UCI)(
C++ source; limit strength; Win32
http://greko.110mb.com/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greko/files/ (Sourceforge download)

Sayuri 2013.12.27 (UCI)
Sayuri 2013.12.26 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 cores); 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 Programming Blogs

Maverick: http://www.chessprogramming.net/bitboards/new-bitboard-viewer-now-hexadecimal/

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

Aptana Studio 3.5.0
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git integration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Calibre 1.17.0
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/

CodeBlocks 13.12
open source cross-platform C/C++ IDE for all compilers
http://www.codeblocks.org/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/13.12/ (download)
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/codeblocks (download)

PeaZip 5.2.1
open source cross-platform file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
- extract 150+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/5.2.1/ (5.2.1 downloads)

phpMyAdmin 4.1.2
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Ruby 2.1.0
popular scripting language, often used with Rails library
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

WinPython 2.7.6 -- for Win32/64
WinPython 3.3.3.0 -- for Win32/64
open-source portable distribution of Python for Windows32/64
allows use of different Python versions that are fully isolated from each other
WinPython is the easiest way of getting Spyder IDE working on Win32/64
NumPy, SciPy and Matplot are also included
- this is a large file to download (more than 200 MB)
http://winpython.sourceforge.net/

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