Engine Updates

Deuterium 14.3.34.130 (UCI)
Win32/64; MultiPV; supports Polyglot books
https://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/files/deuterium

Fizbo 1.3.1 (WB)
mp (8 cores max); Win64
- this is a silent update, version number unchanged
- bugfix: "sometimes castling move was made in a position where after castling king would be under attack by opponent's king"
http://sites.google.com/site/fizbochessengine/

GnuChess5 5.60 (WB/UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Android; supports Gaviota tablebases
- "I think this is about 50 Elo stronger that 5.50"
http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/gnuchess-release/

NoraGrace 2.0 (WB)
C# source; Win32/64
- "it should see a pretty significant bump in playing strength from version 1.0. I'm guessing minimum 200 Elo"
- more aggressive late move reductions
- adding late move pruning
- eval tuning
- there was a silent update to fix a cosmetic bug (printed wrong version number)
https://github.com/ericoldre/NoraGrace-Chess (source)
https://github.com/ericoldre/NoraGrace-Chess/releases/ (downloads)

Sjaak II beta 3 (WB/UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac32/64; variants
- Windows builds require extra dlls (included in download)
- there has been several silent updates to the download file
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-download.html

Chess News

Hoffman 1.5
a chess endgame tablebase builder by Brent Baccala
C/C++ source
- bug fixes and performance improvements
- available as source code only
http://www.freesoft.org/software/hoffman/

Lima 1-41 (WB)
new engine by Ferdinand Mosca
- plays shogi/mini-shogi engine on a 5x5 board
https://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/files/shogi-5x5

Silangan 0-14 (WB)
new engine by Ferdinand Mosca
- plays asean chess variant
https://sites.google.com/site/deuteriumengine/files/asean

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

all updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

GUI Protocol List
- Chess King: small correction to comment
- added ChessSpeak
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Macintosh Engine List
- added Houdini - Chess King
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list

Variants Engine List
- Sjaak: added more variants
- added Silangan
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_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

Any Video Converter 5.7.6
Windows/Mac freeware/commercial multimedia converter
http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 7.5.0.0
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

BitTorrent 7.9.2 (build 36321)
freeware; the original bit torrent program; for Windows only
http://www.bittorrent.com/

Calibre 2.11.0
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/

Glary Utilities 5.13.0.26
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security for Windows
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

HandBrake 0.10.0
cross-platform, open source multithreaded video transcoder (conversion utility)
http://handbrake.fr/

IronPython 2.7.5, RC 1
free, open source Python for .NET/Mono; use Visual Studio or MonoDevelop for easy development
Windows: requires .NET 4.0 or better; Linux: requires Mono 2.10.1 or better
- this is a *release candidate*
http://ironpython.net/ (homepage)
http://blog.ironpython.net/2014/11/ironpython-275-release-candidate-1.html (announcement)

NetBSD 5.2.3
NetBSD 5.1.5
BSD_based Linux distro; desktops: AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #74 in popularity
- these are maintainence updates to older versions
http://www.netbsd.org/

phpMyAdmin 4.2.12
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Pidgin 2.10.11
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
http://www.pidgin.im/ (homepage)
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog (changelog)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/ (download)

Skype 6.22.64.106
free cross-platform videophone/phone/instant messenger program
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home

VirtualBox 4.3.20
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install one or more guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (changelog)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

Engine List: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list
Chess News: http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list

NOTE: If you want me to track a website for you, please email me and I will add it.
ron _at_ computer-chess _dot_ org