Engine Updates

Capivara LK 0.09b02g (UCI)
Win; TSCP derivative; requires MSVC runtime
http://minhateca.com.br/laoliveirajr/Chess/Engines/Capivara

Dorpsgek Ambrosia 3 (XB)
C source; Linux, Win
https://github.com/ZirconiumX/Dorpsgek/releases

Sabertooth 0.1.4b (UCI)
new engine by Dylan Hunn
C source; Linux, Mac
https://github.com/dylhunn/fianchetto (development)
https://dylhunn.github.io/sabertooth/ (homepage)

Sunfish 2016.08.12 (XB)
Python source; requires Python2 interpreter with '-u' option invoked (to disable i/o buffering); didactic engine
http://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/

Zurichess Graubuenden (UCI)
Go source; skill levels; Multi PV; Win32/64, Linux32/64
- added Skill Levels, Multi PV, support for variant play (Theban)
- "in self-play the new version is about 110 Elo stronger"
https://bitbucket.org/zurichess/zurichess/src?at=release.graubuenden (source)
http://bitbucket.org/zurichess/zurichess (homepage)
https://bitbucket.org/zurichess/zurichess/downloads (downloads)

Chess News

Chess Game Analyzer 36.11 Beta
chess tool by Ferdinand Mosca
- analyzes all games in a pgn file
- any UCI engine that supports multipv mode and depth, multipv, score cp/mate and time values output in its analysis line can be used by this tool
http://www.mediafire.com/download/677s64x24e4hmm4/ZIP-chessGameAnalyzer.zip (direct link)

Kvetka 3.28 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
http://kvetka.org/en/

Selective Search magazine
- Eric Wainwright & Mike Watters have made available many free back issues of this defunct computer-chess magazine
http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/selective_search.html

Tarrasch Chess GUI v3 nightly-2016-08-13-a-g (UCI)
C++ source; open source Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- not cross-platform: Windows only
http://www.triplehappy.com/ (homepage)
https://github.com/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui (code repository)
https://github.com/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui/releases/ (download)

Chess Programming Blogs

Tarrasch Chess GUI: https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/digging-up-the-roads/

Updated Wiki Pages

Engine Download List
updates by Ron Murawski
added downloads for: Alex 2.14a, Averno 0.81, Ax 0.8, Bubble 1.5, Butcher 1.64, Chispa 4.03, Cleo 1, Clownfish 01, Crab 1 Beta, Hippocampe 0.4.2, Hussar 0.4, IntelliChess 1.0, KnockOut 0.7.1 build 002, Tornado 7 & Tytan 9.32
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner:

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
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

Linux Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_engine_list

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

PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list

Software For Solving Chess Problems / Puzzles / Endgame Studies
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:software_for_solving_chess_problems

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Advisory:

- 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. I thought I owned my computer, they thought they did. Microsoft won by cheating: they clobbered my sys admin settings. Microsoft won the battle, but lost the war. If I can't trust a company to do an update, how can I trust it at all? All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

Alpine 3.4.3
independent Linux distro; XFCE desktop; #47 in popularity
http://www.alpinelinux.org/

ArchBang 090816
Linux distro based on Arch; i3 and Openbox desktops; #38 in popularity
- XFCE and KDE desktops can be added after imstallation is finished
- this is the monthly release of the rolling distro
http://www.archbang.org/

Avidemux 2.6.13
open-source, cross-platform video editor
- cut, filter, encode & transcode many types of video files
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Calibre 2.64.0
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/

Freeplane 1.5.14
free, cross-platform, open source, free-form note taking w/optional hierarchical ordering, calendar and reminders
- requires Java
http://www.freeplane.org/

Git 2.9.3
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

Go Programming Language 1.7
statically-typed, compiled, simple C-like language with type inference and more
http://golang.org/

HHVM 3.14.5
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 3.14.5
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/releases

ImageMagick 7.0.2-9
cross-platform, open-source program to manipulate images
- create, edit, compose, or convert images files (200+ formats)
- bmp, png, jpg, gif, tiff, svg, etc.
- resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform
- adjust image, apply special effects,
- draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses & Bézier curves
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Jenkins 2.18
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Linux Kernel 4.7.1
- the Linux kernel has been updated
http://www.kernel.org/

Maui 1
Linux distro based on Debian; KDE Plasma desktop
- new NetRunner release using KDE Neon desktop (formerly Kubuntu-based)
https://mauilinux.org/

MongoDB 3.3.11 Stable
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

OpenIndiana 2016.08 "MATE"
based on Solaris, OpenSolaris; MATE desktop
- open-source community alternative to dead commercial Solaris OS
http://openindiana.org/

OpenMandriva 3.0
Linux distro based on Mandriva; KDE desktop; #39 in popularity
http://openmandriva.org/

Pale Moon 26.4.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

ReactOS 0.4.2
independent distro; ReactOS explorer desktop; #23 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'
http://www.reactos.org/

SQLite 3.14.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_14_1.html (changelog)

SystemRescueCD 4.8.1
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
- features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

Tor Browser 6.0.4
attempts to maintain your privacy online
- helps you anonymize web browsing and publishing, IM, and other applications that use the TCP protocol
- ISPs, key loggers and other types of malware are not able to track your activities easily
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

VirtualBox 5.1.4
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)

WordPress 4.6
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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