Engine Updates

Gogobello 0.7 (WB)
Win64 (older versions were Win32 also)
- "Starting from version 0.07 it's available only the 64 bit version. I'm sorry, but this is a hobby and maintaining and testing both versions requires too much time."
- new move generator with magic bitboards, pawn attacks and pawn pushes tables
- new bitboard basic functions with built-in functions provided by GCC
- SEE disabled in the quiescence search for performance reasons
- fix some bugs in null move pruning and hash table
- futility, extended futility pruning and razoring
- delta pruning
- evaluation of passed pawn, isolated pawn, pawn islands and doubled pawn
- evaluation of bishop pair
- dynamic memory allocation for the Hash Table
http://www.g-sei.org/gogobello/ (G-Sei)
http://sasachess.altervista.org/gogobello/ (homepage)

Sayuri 2015.01.16 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 cores); Win64, Linux64
- intended for clang compiler using cmake
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases (source + builds)

Supra 20.1 (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64
http://www.supra-chess-engine.info/ (new homepage)

Zurichess (UCI)
new engine by Alexandru Mosoi
Go source
- this is a source-code-only engine
https://bitbucket.org/brtzsnr/zurichess/

Chess News

Chess for Android 5.0.2 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free GUI + chess engine for Android
- more bugfixes
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
- Patzer Bitbases: updated link
- removed: The Baron Tablebases
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_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

Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.257
free cross-platform flash video player
- fixes some important security vulnerabilities
- Flash is the 2nd most common avenue of infection when computers become compromised
- beware of installing unwanted 3rd party software
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Adobe Shockwave Player 12.1.6.156
allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser
(displays web content that has been created using Adobe Director)
http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer.html (shockwave homepage)
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ (download)

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner 3.6
free registry cleaner; clean and repair incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

BurnAware Free 7.8
CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc-burning software for Windows
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html (info)
http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html (download)

FileZilla Client 3.10.0.2
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)

Git 2.2.2
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

Google Chrome 39.0.2171.99
popular cross-platform web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?

Go Programming Language 1.4.1
statically-typed, compiled, simple C-like language with type inference and more
http://golang.org/

MongoDB 2.6.7 Production Release
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Pale Moon 25.2.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

phpMyAdmin 4.3.7
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Puppy Linux -- Quirky April64 6.92
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
- Tahrpup is built from Ubuntu Trusty Tahr
- Quirky Unicorn is built from Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00160 (announcement)

Scala 2.11.5
a powerful OO, imperative/functional jvm language for professional programmers w/Actors for concurrency
http://www.scala-lang.org/

SeaMonkey 2.32
open source, all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

SQLite 3.8.8
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "a regularly scheduled maintenance release"
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_8.html (changelog)

Tails 1.2.3
Debian-based Linux32 distro; GNOME desktop; #26 in popularity
distro has the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user
https://tails.boum.org/

Thunderbird 31.4.0
Mozilla's excellent cross-platform, open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Very Sleepy 0.90-CS
C/C++ 32/64-bit CPU profiler for Windows systems; supports Microsoft and GCC/MinGW compilers
- this version is not very new, but the page was recently updated to show current versions
http://www.codersnotes.com/sleepy (homepage)
https://github.com/CyberShadow/verysleepy/releases (code + download)

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

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