Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Scid vs. PC 4.13 Chess GUI (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
Win32/64, Mac & .tgz source for Linux
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (downloads)

WinBoard/XBoard Chess GUI 4.8.0b (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI for Windows and Linux
- bugfixes
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xboard.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/master;sf=tgz (direct link for source)
https://drive.google.com/a/lbl.gov/file/d/0B9ZEsfLI7sXWTkVJVU1abTdGZWc/view?usp=sharing
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/snapshot/xboard-4.8.0.tar.gz

XBoard 4.8.0a for OSX (WB/UCI)
Chess GUI for Mac
- bugfixes
- requires OSX 10.7 or better
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53274&sid=7054370ec22b477fccdc4a82287098c1

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

FACE Tournament
FACE 14, Playoff to Div 1 is now complete
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face (homepage)
http://computer-chess.org/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=2925#p2934 (results)

Private Engine List
- removed Lozza, it is now public
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

Calibre 2.7.0
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/

Cassandra is 2.1.1
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

CCleaner 4.19
free Windows/Mac/Android registry and file optimization/privacy/cleaning tool; thorough and effective
uninstalls programs, system restore, drive wiper, controls startup programs, context menus, etc
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (CCleaner homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2014/10/24/ccleaner-v419 (announcement)

Firefox 33.0.1
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

GPartEd Live 0.20.0-2 Stable
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.8.0
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE for 32-/64-bit development
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/ (homepage)

Pale Moon 25.0.2
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

Puppy Linux -- Quirky Unicorn 6.2
Puppy is a popular (#14) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
there are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
you don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
you will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories; Slacko seems to be the flagship version
- Quirky Puppy is built from Wary and Racy and is very experimental
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/x86/unicorn-6.2/3release-unicorn-6.2.htm (announcement)

UltraDefrag 6.0.4
open source defrag program for Windows
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

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