Engine Updates

Alfil 15.4 C#, beta 17 (UCI)
Win32/64; mp; FRC
https://esacosta.wordpress.com/home-2/descargas-alfil/ (downloads)
https://esacosta.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/alfil-15-4-c-beta-17/ (announcement + download)

Andscacs 0.80 (UCI)
mp (32 cores max); multi-PV; Win32/64
- "the strength gain may be 30 Elo"
http://andscacs.com/

Dirty 10APR2015 (WB)
Win32/64, Linux64
- added smp support
- no Linux build this time
http://www.dirtychess.com/downloads.php

Jellyfish 1.1 (WB/UCI)
mp; Win32/64, Mac, Linux
- this new engine is announced, but unavailable
- if/when released, mp will be added
- if/when released, will be first time for Win64 and Linux builds
http://sites.google.com/site/jellyfishchess

Chess News

ChessX 1.3.0 GUI (WB/UCI)
PGN database program for Windows32/64, Mac64 & Linux w/ analysis only (not for playing)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessx/
http://chessx.sourceforge.net/

ChessMate
free website to play against an engine or another human opponent
https://selene.hud.ac.uk/u1173961/ChessMate/web

Computer Chess Championship pgns
made available by John Wentworth
- WCCC 1974-2011
- WMcc 1981-2001
- Olympiad 1989-1992
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qixh5ihdedz4cuu/wccc.zip

Freeware-Schach 3.43 Chess GUI (UCI)
Chess GUI + engine
Win32
http://www.freeware-schach.de/eindex.html

Jim Ablett Android compiles
- Sting 5 JA (UCI)
- SugaR 050415 JA (UCI)
http://jimablett.net63.net/compiles.html

Kvetka 3.25.0 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

Lucas Chess 9.03a
"play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor"
Python source; Win32
- contains 36 engines
- also available as a portable build
http://www-lucaschess.rhcloud.com (homepage)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

Nothing new today

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

Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.169
free cross-platform flash video player for browsers
- Flash is in a first-place tie with Java as the most common avenue of infection
- beware of installing unwanted 3rd party software
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2015.0.5941
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download

Avira AntiVir Personal 15.0.9.504 Free
antivirus product; the free version pops up annoying intermittent ads
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Calibre 2.25.0
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/

Firefox 37.0.2
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Ghostery v4.1.1 for Internet Explorer
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets on every web page you visit;
"See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
http://www.ghostery.com/download

Jenkins 1.610
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

KaOS 2015.04
independent, x86_64 rolling-release Linux distro; KDE desktop; #25 in popularity
- this is the monthly rolling-release snapshot
http://kaosx.us/

Komodo Edit 9.0.1
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

Network Scanner 6.0.6
Windows free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports & displays shared network resource types
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

NetWorx 5.3.5
free Windows network traffic (bandwidth) monitor & usage reporting w/ real-time graphs
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

Notepad++ 6.7.7
open source programmer's editor (Windows only)
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

PHP 5.6.8
PHP 5.5.24
PHP 5.4.40
PHP is a very popular and practical general-purpose open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
- bufix and security fixes for an older versions, current version is 5.6.8
http://php.net/

phpMyAdmin 4.4.3
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Puppy Linux -- Fatdog64 701 Final
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
- Fatdog64 is a 64-bit Puppy distro; it is larger than most other Puppys
- 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 is built from Ubuntu and is intended for full installs
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/latest.html (release notes)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ (Fatdog64 homepage)

System Explorer 6.4.1
free; detailed info about Windows tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graph/monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/

UltraDefrag 6.1.0
open source defrag program for Windows
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

VLC Media Player 2.2.1
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video); recommended
http://www.videolan.org/

WordPress 4.1.2
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/

XAMPP 5.6.8-0
XAMPP 5.5.24-0
cross-platform, open source web-server (Apache), SQL database (MySQL) w/ admin, PHP, ftp server, Tomcat, & more
- this is probably the easiest way to install a working, web-aware PHP into Windows
- it is also easy to add web apps like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, SugarCRM, phpBB, DokuWiki, etc.
- version numbering reflect the PHP version that is supported
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

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

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