Engine Updates

Claudia 0.1 (UCI)
new engine by Antonio Garro
engine discovered by Norbert Raimund Leisner
C source
- this is a source-code-only engine
http://github.com/antoniogarro/Claudia

Exacto 0.e (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64
http://www.freewebs.com/danbo/about.html (old homepage)
http://math.berkeley.edu/~sparks/exacto/ (new homepage)

MyTeacheR (WB)
new chess engine by Mickael Faivre-Maçon
Ruby source
engine discovered by Silvian 'Ruxy' Sylwyka
- source-code-only engine
http://micktaiwan.blogspot.com/search/label/chess (blog [French language])
http://sites.google.com/site/faivrem/home/myteacher (repository)
http://github.com/micktaiwan/MyTeacheR/archive/master.zip (direct link)

moved Sunfish back to Source-Code-Only List
The file to run the WB engine has been changed to testing code

Chess News

Nothing new today

Chess Programming Blogs

iCE: http://macechess.blogspot.de/2014/03/the-texel-way-of-tuning_10.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

Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.77
free cross-platform flash video player
- fixes some important security vulnerabilities
- Flash is the most common avenue of infection when computers become compromised
http://www.adobe.com/

CDBurnerXP 4.5.3
open source CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning software for Win32/64
this program requires .NET framework; Media Format 9.0 update required if using WMA format
- be careful, you will want the version *without* the 'Open Candy' advertising
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download (homepage)
http://cdburnerxp.se/download?more-options (download)

Jenkins 1.555
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Lcc for Win32/64
small, simple, fast open source Windows C compiler & development tools; cross compile capability
free for non-commercial use
- version number is unknown
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/README (changes)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ (website + downloads)

MariaDB 10.0.9 RC
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- I don't usually list release candidate databases, but this one is interesting due to the inclusion of multi-source replication
- "do not use this release on production systems"
- use mainstream 5.x version for production MySQL-compatible databases
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.9/ (MariaDB 10.0.9 page)

Pale Moon 24.4.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

Process Explorer 16.02
displays information about which Windows handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Python 3.3.5
popular open source programming language
http://www.python.org/ (homepage)

SQLite 3.8.4.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- this is a "maintenance release"
- performance enhancements (12% faster than previos release)
- fixes for a number of obscure bugs
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_4.html (changelog)

Meaning of Colors

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

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