Engine Updates

CyberPagno 2.2 (WB)
Win32/64
- first update since 2004!
- first time for Win64 build
http://www.g-sei.org/cyberpagno/ (G-Sei alt site)
http://cyberpagno.altervista.org/index.htm (homepage)

DisasterArea 1.54 (UCI)
new engine by Jochen Peussner (Neurologic)
Win32; smp (2 threads max); multiPV; eval is tunable
- "stronger than Fruit 2.1 ( > 140 Elo) and weaker than Fruit_Reloaded"
http://desasterarea.jimdo.com

Elektro 1.2 (UCI)
Win32/64; mp (16 threads max); Igorrit derivative
http://elektrochessengine.blogspot.it/

Gogobello 0.04 (WB)
Win32/64
http://www.g-sei.org/gogobello/

Lozza 1.12 (UCI)
JavaScript source
- NOTE: engine requires using jsUCI program (by Edmund Moshammer), available separately
- increase LMR because of history based move ordering
- use history (and PSTs if no history) for move ordering
http://op12no2.me/toys/lozza/lozza.js (source code)
http://op12no2.me/posts/1818 (UCI stand-alone instructions)

Mister Queen (UCI)
new source-code-only engine by Michael Fogleman
C source
http://github.com/fogleman/MisterQueen

Nemeton 1 (WB)
new engine by Stan Arts (Neurosis, Stan's Chess & S-Chess)
Pascal source; Win64
- right-click the file and choose 'download'
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=17c791428db77d82&id=17C791428DB77D82!125&ithint=file,rar&authkey=!APxSdvdaObDWUaY

Rodent 'tunable' (UCI)
Win64 only
- this is an experimental, pre-beta release not intended for official testing
- this release allows tuning of eval and creation of personalities
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=597169&t=54366 (eval weight description)
http://github.com/nescitus/rodent_rewrite (source)
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/tunable.zip (direct link)

Violet 2.5 (UCI)
Win32/64
- a few bugs have been fixed in the UCI interface. She should not hang after finding mate
http://violetchess.com/home

NOTE: Sourceforge site may have been compromised
"We're sorry -- the Sourceforge site is currently in Disaster Recovery mode ... Please check back later."
Meanwhile I'm getting a lot of error messages from GitHub:
"Failed to load latest commit information" and "Cannot retrieve the latest commit at this time"
Google code repos are also acting weirdly
There may be a security vulnerability in Git!

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book Databases
- PGN program renamed from "nameResult" to "nameSplit"
- PGN programs updated: "nameSplit", "pctList", "resultTable"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

FACE Tournament
- updated pages: face, participants & download
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

FACE Tournament Results
- FACE 14, Division 1 is concluded: Stockfish wins
http://computer-chess.org/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=2936#p2946

SMP Engine List
- added DisasterArea
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_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

Aptana Studio 3.6.1
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git integration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Artistic Style 2.05
open source source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier
- supports C, C++, C#, Objective C & Java programming languages
http://astyle.sourceforge.net/

Firefox 33.1.1
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

FreeBSD 10.1
Independent Linux distro; desktops: AfterStep, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #16 in popularity
http://www.freebsd.org/

FreeNAS 9.2.1.9
specialty FreeBSD-based Linux distro
- tiny kernel provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services (CIFS, FTP and NFS)
http://www.freenas.org/

FrostWire 6.0.1
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

Jenkins 1.591
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Orwell Dev-C++ 5.8.3
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE for 32-/64-bit development
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/ (homepage)

PC-BSD 10.1
x64-only, BSD-based Linux distro; KDE (default), Awesome, Cinnamon, Fluxbox, FVWM, GNOME, i3, IceWM, LXDE, MATE, Openbox, WMaker & Xfce desktops; #40 in popularity
http://www.pcbsd.org/

SolydXK 201411
Linux distro based on Debian (testing); KDE or Xfce desktop; #55 in popularity
- this is a rolling-release (updated quarterly)
http://solydxk.com/

SystemRescueCd 4.4.1
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

USBDeview 2.40
free Win32/64 utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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