Engine Updates

Fischerle 0.9.65 (UCI)
cross-platform Java jar file & Win32/64; own GUI
http://www.stuckardt.de/index.php/schachengine-fischerle.html

Chess News

ICCFMasters book for ChessGUI
compiled by Graham Banks
- book derived from drawn games involving players rated 2500+ from ICCF games from 2004 to the present
- 9000+ lines of 24 ply
- this is a silent update that removes forced draws and bad lines
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/download/file.php?id=35488

Kvetka 3.25.2 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- restored & modified EPD program; epd position
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Arasan: http://arasanchess.org/blogs/sep15.html

Updated Wiki Pages

updated pages:

GUI Protocol List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Links
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links

Macintosh Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_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 2.38.0
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/

GhostBSD 10.1
BSD-based Linux distro; MATE desktop; #62 in popularity
http://www.ghostbsd.org/

Git 2.5.2
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

ICQ 8.4.7784
audio/video/text chat w/ connectivity to Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc for desktop & mobile
http://www.icq.com/en

Komodo Edit 9.2.1
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

Mono 4.0.4
.NET Framework-compatible set of tools; fully Ecma standard-compliant implementation
includes a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime, GUI-builder and much more
able to run Microsoft .NET applications cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, others)
- more adoption of Microsoft's open source code, runtime optimizations, bugfixes, etc.
- this is an update to the older 4.0 version (current version is 4.2.0)
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.2.0/ (release notes)
http://www.mono-project.com/

Manjaro 15.09
Arch-based, rolling-release distro; desktops: Openbox, Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, Xfce; #8 in popularity
http://manjaro.org/

Python 3.5.0
popular general-purpose, open source programming language
https://www.python.org/ (homepage)
https://www.python.org/downloads/ (downloads)

Meaning of Colors

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

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