Engine Updates

Clownfish 01 (XB)
new engine by Luca Vallisa
- download link seems broken
http://www.g-sei.org/clownfish/

Jim Ablett builds
Crafty 25.0.1 JA (XB)
- bugfix: allocation of hash tables larger than 2GB now possible
C++ source; mp; Nalimov egtbs; limit strength; Win32/64, Linux32/64
https://cis.uab.edu/hyatt/crafty/source/ (source)
http://crafty0981.moonfruit.com/

Embla 0.8 (UCI)
mp (INT_MAX cores); supports Syzygy ebtbs; Linux64, Win64
- adds syzygy endgame database-support
http://www.vanheusden.com/Embla/

Piritonio (UCI)
by Francesco Bianco
requires .NET framework
- code badly broken
http://sourceforge.net/projects/piritonio/

Daniel Jose Win builds
Quokka 2.0 DJ (UCI)
new engine by Matt Palmer
C++ source; Win64
https://github.com/mp3259/Quokka (source)
http://www.andscacs.com/quokka/quokka2.zip (Win64 binary)

Sayuri 2016.01.16 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 threads); Linux64, Win64, Mac
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri

Shield 1.1 (UCI)
Win64
https://sites.google.com/site/shieldchessengine/

SlowChess 2.960e (XB/UCI)
Toga CMLX 1.4.5e3 (UCI)
compiles are for Linux only
- both compliles by Jim Ablett
- thanks to Alexander Schmidt
https://chessengines.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/linux-compiles/

Waxman 2015 (XB)
Win
http://www.waxman2008.com/whatsnew.html

Chess News

Droidfish 1.61 for Android
port of Stockfish to Android platform + chess GUI
- updated stockfish to version 7
- added features, fixed bugs
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/index.html

Eagle Mode 0.89.1 Chess GUI (WB)
C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64; an engine is part of Eagle Mode own GUI
- Eagle Mode is the name of the GUI, SilChess is the name of the engine
- all the updated changes seem to be related to the chess GUI, not to the engine
http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/ (Eagle Mode homepage)
http://github.com/ackalker/eaglemode/ (older source code)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eaglemode/files/ (Eagle Mode downloads)

FACE tournament
- Edition 15, Division 1 first results (partial)
http://computer-chess.org/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=3096#p3099

Jim Ablett Android compiles
- Crafty 25.0.1 JA (XB)
- Gull 3 (rev 3 JA) (UCI)
- Sting SF 6 JA (UCI)
http://jimablett.net63.net/compiles.html

Postduif 0.14-r30 (XB)
new variant engine by Evert Glebbeek
variant play only; Linux, Win
- variant play only
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-download.html

ProTools 1.6
Ed Schröder's command-line tool for improving engines
http://rebel13.nl/misc/ebf/protools.html
http://rebel13.nl/misc/ebf/index.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_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

NOTE: I had an argument with Microsoft. They thought they owned my computer, I thought I did. Microsoft won by cheating, they clobbered my sys admin settings. All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

AdBlock 2.46
Google Chrome extension to block ads, thereby preventing malware infections
- not related to AdBlocck Plus
http://www.getadblock.com/

Adobe Shockwave Player 12.2.3.183
free cross-platform flash video player for browsers
- Flash stands alone in first-place as the most common avenue of infection
- Adobe bundles unwanted 3rd party crapware, beware!
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Calibre 2.49.0
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/

Cassandra 3.2
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

GnuCash 2.6.11
free, cross-platform, open source, personal/small-business accounting software
- track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses
http://www.gnucash.org/

Go Programming Language 1.5.3
statically-typed, compiled, simple C-like language with type inference and more
http://golang.org/

Google Chrome 47.0.2526.111
popular cross-platform web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?

Jenkins 1.644
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

KaOS 2016.01
independent Linux distro; KDE desktop; #32 in popularity
http://kaosx.us/

MongoDB 3.2.1 Stable
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

PyDev 4.5.1 for Eclipse
open source Python IDE for Eclipse; can be used for Python, Jython, and IronPython development
http://pydev.org/

ReactOS 0.4.0, RC 2
independent distro; ReactOS explorer desktop; #62 in popularity
- this distro is not Linux-based
- all files are binary-compatible with Windows
- distro looks and acts like Windows
- distro does *not* contain the new Microsoft spyware aka 'telemetry'
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.reactos.org/

Scribus 1.4.6
cross-platform, open-source program for professional page layout
http://www.scribus.net/

SQLite 3.10.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "this is a bug-fix release"
- fix for the query planner bug
- added minor API enhancement
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_10_1.html (changelog)

Tiny Core 7.0
independent distro; Fluxbox, flwm, Hackedbox, IceWM, JWM, & Openbox desktops; #47 in popularity
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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