Engine Updates

Andscacs 0.85 (UCI)
mp (32 cores max); multi-PV; Win32/64
- "may be 15-20 Elo"
http://www.andscacs.com/
http://www.andscacs.com/andscacs085.zip (direct link)

BeeKay 5.1a (UCI)
mp; FRC; multiPV; Win64
- this is an old development version of Komodo CCT
- for information see: http://komodochess.com/komodoCCT-31a
- cannot be donwloaded alone, you must download unrelated StrongChess engine as well
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hyximihje5cpry/Beekay%20%2B%20StrongChess.rar?dl=0 (direct link)

CeruleanJS 0.1.1 (XB)
new engine by Joey Robert
JavaScript source; supports Polyglot opening books; Win64; requires a special browser to run
- "roughly ~1300 Elo"
http://ceruleanjs.joeyrobert.org/ (blog)
https://bitbucket.org/joeyrobert/ceruleanjs (source)
http://ceruleanjs.joeyrobert.org/play/ (play online vs engine)
http://ceruleanjs.joeyrobert.org/downloads (download)

Chess4J 3.0 (XB)
Java and Groovy source; cross-platform jvm jar file
- added an opening book
http://www.jamesswafford.com/2016/01/16/chess4j-3-0-is-released/ (announcement)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chess4j

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

Deepov 0.3 (UCI)
C++ source; Win64; Linux?
- download link for Linux build fails for me
https://github.com/RomainGoussault/Deepov/releases/tag/v0.3

Jose Velasco Win64 builds
Deepov 0.2 JV (UCI)
Deepov 0.1 JV (UCI)
C++ source; Win64
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xsrfs3eyh2bhkie/Deepov.7z (0.1 & 0.2 direct download)

Dmitri Gusev Windows builds
Gull 3.0.1 DG (UCI)
C++ source; mp; multiPV; Win32/64, Linux; test version supports Syzygy egtbs
- Windows-only release
- added hyperthreading support
- this is not an official release
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/ (original source)
http://www.firenzina.org/Gull_3-0-1.zip (direct link to modified engine)

StrongChess 1.0 (UCI)
new engine by Elemar Rodrigues Severo, Jr
C# source; Win64
- engine no longer source code only
- cannot be donwloaded alone, you must download unrelated BeeKay engine as well
https://github.com/ElemarJR/StrongChess (source)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hyximihje5cpry/Beekay%20%2B%20StrongChess.rar?dl=0 (direct link)

SugaR Beta 1 (UCI)
C++ source; mp (up to 128 threads); multiPV; FRC; Win32/64; supports Syzygy egtbs; Stockfish derivative
- Win64-only release
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uisysdtptlfo2j3/SugaR+Beta1.zip (direct link)

Chess News

FACE tournament
- Edition 15, Division 1 -- results 1st block
http://computer-chess.org/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=3096#p3101

Jerry Chess GUI 2.0 (UCI)
new GUI by Dominik Klein
cross-platform Chess GUI for UCI, writtern in Python
- author admits speed and scaling problems due to Python
- threading is limited due to Python GIL
- next version will be in C++ and not suffer the same problems
http://asdfjkl.github.io/jerry/ (source)
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry/releases (download)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new TXT program; txtToken : uses a user-specified "token number" to output the token in that position on each line
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Postduif 0.14-r32M (XB)
variant engine by Evert Glebbeek
variant play only; Linux, Win
- variant play only
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-download.html

Python-chess 0.13.2
chess library written in Python
https://github.com/niklasf/python-chess/releases

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

all updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

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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 2.47
Google Chrome extension to block ads, thereby preventing malware infections
- not related to AdBlocck Plus
http://www.getadblock.com/

Adblock Plus 2.7.1 for Firefox
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
- not related to AdBlocck
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.286
free cross-platform flash video player for browsers
- Flash is in undisputed first-place as the most common avenue of infection
- Adobe bundles unwanted 3rd party crapware, beware!
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Audacity 2.1.2
popular cross-platform, open source sound editor/recorder
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Cassandra 3.2.1
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

CMake 3.4.2
cross-platform, open-source build system for C/C++
https://cmake.org/

ExTix 16.1
Ubuntu-based Linux distro; KDE & LXQt desktops; #85 in popularity
http://www.extix.se/

Google Chrome 48.0.2564.82
popular cross-platform web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?

GParted 0.25.0-1
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

HHVM 3.11.1
Facebook's open-source replacement/improvement of the PHP programming language
- HHVM programs run much faster than PHP programs
- package includes the Hack programming language, version 3.11.1
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/releases

Java 8, Update 72
update of Java runtime environment and development kit (JRE or JDK)
- it is important to disable the Java plugin in your browser, or bad things may happen to you!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Jenkins 1.645
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Kali 2016.1
rolling release Linux distro based on Debian(testing); GNOME desktop; #10 in popularity
- formerly known as BackTrack
- concentrating on security and forensics tools
- this is the monthly release
http://www.kali.org/

Mercurial 3.6.3
cross-platform, open-source distributed version control system
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

Nim programming language 0.13.0
cross-platform, statically typed, imperative/object-oriented, natively compiled programming language
with overloaded functions/operators, iterators, exceptions, generics, closures, templates, macros
GC support for multi-core programming
- language was formerly known as Nimrod
- syntax resembles Python or Ruby
- runtime efficiency of C
- single inheritance only
- can use type inference to deduce types
http://nim-lang.org/news.html (release notes)
http://nim-lang.org/index.html

openmamba 3.0
independent Linux distro; KDE & Gnome desktops; #127 in popularity
- uses APT for RPM and Synaptic for package management
http://openmamba.org/

PyDev 4.5.3 for Eclipse
open source Python IDE for Eclipse; can be used for Python, Jython, and IronPython development
http://pydev.org/

SQLite 3.10.2
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "this is a bug-fix release"
- fixed bug in the LIKE operator
- three other minor but low-risk fixes
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_10_2.html (changelog)

VirtualBox 5.0.14
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)

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

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