Engine Updates

Rhetoric 1.4.1 (UCI)
Win32/64 & Android; limit strength; uses a genetic algorithm to 'train' the playing style towards human GM style
- "Estimated Elo: 2765" (translated from Spanish)
- tuning/learning changed. Using self play with time odds
- added UCI_LimitStrength and UCI_Elo options. Very simple, adding a delay in eval
- added an option to change the material weight. You can change the style to make it more positional or more materialistic. Changing the material value from 50% to 200%. The very first game that I played using 50% of the material, was a crushing Tal-style game. Really entertaining, believe me
- added an evaluation cache
http://www.chessrhetoric.com/

Chess News

ChestUCI-DB
database of mate problems
- updated: now with 6600 mate problems
http://fhub.jimdo.com/

Freeware-Schach 3.41 Chess GUI (UCI)
Chess GUI + engine
Win32
- now offers draw
- stability fix for ep and check
http://www.freeware-schach.de/eindex.html

Kvetka 3.23.1 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

XBoard Alpha News
WinBoard 4.8.0 Chess GUI pre-release (WB/UCI)
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html (info)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.beta.zip (direct download link)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

Private Engine List
- added Hustle Motor, ISA & QueenBee
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:private_engine_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

Git 2.1.1
cross-platform distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

GNUplot 4.6.6
open source, cross platform, command-line driven, 2D/3D graphing/plotting
http://www.gnuplot.info/ (homepage)

Jenkins 1.582
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Netrunner 2014.09 "Rolling"
Kubuntu-based or Arch-based Linux distro; customized KDE desktop; #45 in popularity
- this is the latest snapshot of the rolling-release version based on Arch (Manjaro)
http://www.netrunner-os.com/

PyPy 2.4.0
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
for Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64, & ARM
- syntax-compatible with Python 2.7.8 (PyPy2) or 3.2.5 (PyPy3)
- "6.53 times faster than CPython (improvement from 6.29 times faster for previous version)
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)

qBittorrent 3.1.10
open source cross-platform Bittorrent client
http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Salix 14.1
Linux distro based on Slackware; Fluxbox, KDE, LXDE, MATE, Xfce desktops; #44 in popularity
http://www.salixos.org/

SUPER Video Converter 2014 (build 62)
free multimedia encoder/transcoder/converter and player
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

UltraVNC 1.2.0.3
open source, cross-platform remote desktop; can view/control Win, Linux, or Mac
http://www.uvnc.com/ (homepage)
http://www.uvnc.com/downloads/ultravnc.html (download)

Vala/Genie 0.26.0 Stable
object-oriented system programming language that runs at the speed of C
Vala syntax resembles C# and Genie syntax 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)

WordWeb Free 7.1
free English dictionary and thesaurus program for Windows; look up words from almost any program
http://wordweb.info/free/

Meaning of Colors

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

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