Engine Updates

GreKo 10.3 JMV (UCI)
C++ source; limit strength; Win32/64
- silent update, version number unchanged
- new Win64 'official' build available for Win XP64 by José M Velasco
http://motorchess.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/greko-10.html

Numbit 01.2 (WB)
new engine by Nuvit Bayurgil
Visual Basic source; own GUI; Win32/64
- no home page!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50057407/Numbit/v01.2_setup_GUI.rar (GUI)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50057407/Numbit/v01.2_setup_Engine.rar (source)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50057407/Numbit/Numbit%20Chess%20Engine.rar (engine + source)

pikoSzachy 'Extreme Edition' (WB)
Win32
- bundled together with older nano/pikoSzachy versions
http://www.kalisz.mm.pl/~pic/nanochess/

Sting SF 4 JV
C++ source; Win32/64; Stockfish derivative
- no home page!
- new Win64 'official' build available by José M Velasco
http://motorchess.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/sting-st-64-bits.html (announcement)

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new PGN program: nameResult - extracts into 3 files the winning, drawing and losing games of a user-specified player
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Chess Programming Blogs

http://macechess.blogspot.de/2014/01/a-bit-of-new-years-cleanup.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

FileZilla Server 0.9.43
open source, cross-platform ftp server
- most people do not require the server, just the client
http://filezilla-project.org/

TThrottle 7.40
free Windows laptop utility to keep CPU/GPU temperature down by throtttling performance
http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/

WinPython 2.7.6.2 -- for Win32/64
WinPython 3.3.3.2 -- 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/

Zero Install 2.3.7
open source, decentralized, cross-platform, cross-distribution software installation system
"Create one package that works everywhere; with dependency handling and automatic updates"
Zero Install programs are fetched at runtime the first time and run from your cache subsequently
http://0install.net/faq.html (FAQ)
http://0install.de/?lang=en

Meaning of Colors

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

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