Engine Updates

José M Velasco Win32/64 builds
Exacto 0.e JMV (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64, Mac
http://www.dropbox.com/s/sn1i100pj7l5ln0/exacto-0.e.7z (direct link)

Napoleon 1.5.0 (UCI)
Napoleon 1.4.0 (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64
- v1.4.0: "hopefully it would be something around 100-150 elo stronger than the older version"
- v1.5.0: "show an improvement over the last version of about 30 Elo"
- new evaluation function written from scratch
- some code optimization/refactoring
http://github.com/crybot/Napoleon
https://github.com/crybot/Napoleon/releases (downloads)

Pedone 0.3 (WB)
Win32/64, Linux32/64
- silent update, version number unchanged
- "bugfix to version 0.3"
http://www.g-sei.org/pedone/

Pulse Chess 1.3.0 (UCI)
Java source, didactic engine; Win32
- cross-platform jar file is released
http://github.com/fluxroot/pulse/releases (source code)
http://fluxchess.com/pulse/download/ (homepage download)

Sayuri 2014.03.21 (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
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/tree/master/SayuriCompiled/Linux/For64Bit (Linux64)
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases (source + Linux build)

Scorpio 2.7.7 (WB)
C++ source; mp; Win32/64; own endgame bitbases
http://github.com/dshawul/Scorpio (source)
http://sites.google.com/site/dshawul/home (download)

Senpai 1.0 (UCI)
C++ source; Win, Linux, Mac, Android, mp
- silent update, version number unchanged
- "it seems Fabien has replaced the 64-bit generic Windows compile with that of José Velasco"
- new SSEs Linux build (non-popcount), but provided as a self-extracting Windows exe file
http://www.solidfiles.com/d/a8052b4b89/ (new SSE3 direct link)
http://goo.gl/H0h1Jd (new Win build direct link)

Chess News

Kvetka 3.22 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

Chess Programming Blogs

iCE: http://macechess.blogspot.de/2014/03/some-more-tuning-results.html

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Chess UCI Protocol Tracer Utility
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Links
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added ChessElec and HTML-PDF Converter
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links

Oldies Collection List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added D-Fend Reloaded Frontend for DOSBox
- added DOSBox Open Source DOS Emulator
- University of Pittsburgh Chess Club: added a comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:oldies_collection_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

Avast! Free Antivirus 2014 9.0.2016
free antivirus for Win32/64; the program is registerware: you must divulge your email address
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2014.4354
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2014

Avidemux 2.6.8
open source, cross-platform video editor and audio/video transcoder
- silent update, version number unchanged
- added a file that was inadvertently missing
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux

Kwheezy 1.5
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); KDE desktop; #39 in popularity
http://www.kwheezy.com/

phpMyAdmin 4.1.11
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Vala/Genie 0.24.0 Stable
Vala language resembles C# and Genie language resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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