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Update Information: January 27, 2016 (Updates)

by Ron @, Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 22:42

Engine Updates

Betafish 1.01 (UCI)
'new' engine based on Stockfish code by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, et al, and a small amount by Mohamed Nayeem
Win64 only
- I'm not adding this one to the main chess engine list, there's way too many Stockfish forks and nothing that seems to distinguish this one as different
- very annoying download links! :-(
- this one is probably not worth downloading
http://betachess.com/download/file.php?id=6 (alt link)
https://rapidu.net/4912989997/betafish-1.2.1.zip (direct link)

Fairy-Max 5.0a (XB)
multi-PV; Win; variants
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi (source)
http://hgm.nubati.net/Fairy-Max.zip (direct link)

Mineman Craftext Win32/64 compiles
GNUChess 6.2.2 MC (XB/UCI)
new Windows-only compiles of latest GNUchess engine by Mineman Craftext
C++ source; Win32/64; directly based on Fruit 2.1 code
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuchesswin32/files/

Mycelium (UCI)
new engine by Alessandro Power and James Talarico
C++ source; incomplete
- source code only (development in progress)
https://github.com/Power-Talarico/mycelium (source)

Chess News

Chess for Android 5.1.2 Chess GUI (XB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free GUI + chess engine for Android
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- modified PGN program: summary
- renamed PGN program: eloGap (formerly eloDist)
- removed EPD program; epdColumn
- added TXT program; txtToken (formerly named epdColumn)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Ordo 1.0.9
calculates relative ratings based on game results
- new features have been added
https://github.com/michiguel/Ordo/releases

Scid vs. PC 4.16 Chess GUI (WB)
open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
Win32/64, Mac & .tgz source for Linux
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (downloads)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

Online Databases / Game Collections List
- update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:online_databases_game_collections_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.

Amanda Network Backup 3.3.8
open source, cross-platform admin tool for network backup
http://www.amanda.org/

BackBox 4.5
Ubuntu-based Linux distro; Xfce desktop; #60 in popularity
- developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments
- contains latest versions of the most often used and best-known ethical hacking tools
http://www.backbox.org/

Black Lab 7.0.3
Linux distro based on Ubuntu (LTS); GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce desktops; #23 in popularity
http://www.blacklablinux.org/

CMake 3.4.3
cross-platform, open-source build system for C/C++
https://cmake.org/

Debian 8.3.0
independent Linux distro; supports all desktops; #2 in popularity
- this is an update to the stable branch
http://www.debian.org/

Firefox 44.0
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Gosu 1.10.1
a Java-like programming language for the jvm featuring: OO, closures, inference, simplified generics, etc.
http://gosu-lang.org/

HandBrake 0.10.3
cross-platform, open source multithreaded video transcoder (conversion utility)
http://handbrake.fr/

Handy 2.3
Debian(stable)-based distro; Xfce desktop; #86 in popularity
http://handylinux.org/

Jenkins 1.646
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

KDevelop 4.7.3
cross-platform (but not Windows) IDE primarily supporting C/C++, PHP and Python
- lesser support for Java, Perl, Fortran, Ruby, Ada, Pascal, SQL, and Bash
https://www.kdevelop.org/

Kingsoft Office Free 9.1.0.5247
cross-platform office suite composed of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation manager,
PDF converter; spell check; imports Word doc & docx files
http://www.ksosoft.com/product/office-free.html

KNOPPIX 7.6.1
Debian-based Linux distro; desktops: LXDE (default), GNOME, KDE, Openbox; #57 in popularity
http://www.knoppix.org/

Nim in Action
new book covering the Nim programming language
- use the discount code 'mlpicheta' to get 50% off (release date summer 2016)
- this is an Early Access version, not the final version of the text
- download first 3 chapters (of 9) for free
- "If you purchase the eBook you will start receiving new chapters as they become available. You can also purchase the printed book together with the eBook for a slightly higher price"
http://nim-lang.org/news.html (Nim language link)
https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action (book link)

Pale Moon 26.0.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
- "security, stability and usability update"
http://www.palemoon.org/

Q4OS 1.4.6
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); Trinity desktop; #33 in popularity
http://q4os.org/

Rosa 7
Mandriva-based Linux distro: GNOME & KDE desktops; #54 in popularity
- update for the 'R' series with KDE desktop
http://www.rosalinux.com/

Tails 2.0
Debian-based Linux32 distro; GNOME desktop; #16 in popularity
- distro has the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user
- increases in popularity every time I look
https://tails.boum.org/

Tor Browser 5.5
cross-platform browser that provides some Internet anonymity for the user
- best privacy is achieved using it under Tails operating system
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

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

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