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Arasan is a chess program for Windows that includes an opening "book" with over 500,000 moves.

Arasan comes with its own graphical user interface, but it can also be used together with Winboard, a separate interface program, as well as other interfaces that follow the Winboard or UCI standard.

Freeware

Changelog

Changes in Arasan 20.1:
 1) Fixes to UCI multipv handling.
 2) Fix logic for terminating search on tablebase hit.
 3) Bug fixes in parameter tuning code. Use actual sigmoid function when
    tuning king safety, not an approximated lookup table.
 4) Add file-dependent scoring for passed pawns.
 5) Fix bug in scoring for rooks behind passed pawns.
 6) Allow setting Arasan version string on make command line. Builds done
    between release tags now have versions generated from git commit # (if
    done from a git repository).
 7) In UCI mode, return a move even in cases where a legal draw position
    (according to 3-move rule) exists before search is started. Fixes problems
    with some UCI UIs.
 8) Allow LMR of some evasion moves.
 9) Remove "forced move" extension (1 single reply to check).
 10) More code cleanup and conversion to C++ 11.
 11) Some Android portability fixes. Note: Android build still not fully
     supported.

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Changelog

- Fix: Add missing game script event for ships arriving at a station [FS#6560] (r27859, r27858)
- Fix: StringID truncation to 16 bits broke string remapping test [FS#6555] (r27851)
- Fix: Infinite loop in pathfinder when checking safe waiting position from a waypoint [FS#5926] (r27846)
- Fix: [YAPF] Consider depot as destination before reversing path and applying penalty (r27843)
- Fix: Don't consider locks or ship depots as clear water when placing industries (r27841)
- Fix: Small news window's fake caption was not sized to fit its text (r27838)
- Fix: Black remap did nothing in 8bpp-simple blitter (r27837)
- Fix: Misaligned resize icon due to widget bounds being inclusive (r27831)
- Fix: Update viewport sign dimensions when changing GUI zoom level (r27827, r27819)
- Fix: Vehicle viewport is not user scrollable so flag window as such (r27823)
- Fix: Allow dropdown to be drawn above origin widget even with scrollbar (r27820)
- Fix: 32bpp-anim blitters assumed that pitch and width of the screen were equal [FS#6545] (r27796)
- Fix: Chat text background overflowed due to missing padding [FS#6526] (r27794)
- Fix: Failed to load lzo compressed savegames sometimes [FS#6450] (r27793)
- Fix: [Win32] Mark OpenTTD as DPI-aware to avoid OS window scaling that breaks mouse input [FS#6366] (r27791, r27790)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Get vehicle load amount after executing new cargo trigger [FS#6536] (r27788)
- Fix: AI configuration changed incorrect parameter when some parameters are hidden [FS#6479] (r27787, r27786)
- Fix: Buoys not always drawn after being placed depending on zoom level [FS#6508] (r27785)
- Fix: Allow rail conversion even if ship is on tile [FS#6505] (r27784)

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Changelog

 1) Add probcut to search.
 2) Detect King and Rook pawn vs wrong-color Bishop configuration
    and score near draw, even if opponent has pawns.
 3) Change history score calculation (similar to Stockfish).
 4) Implement countermove history similar to Stockfish and use in move
    ordering. Consolidate history/refutation/countermove history stuff
    into SearchContext class and remove separate History and Refutations
    classes.
 5) Sync with changes to jdart1/Fathom. In particular, pick up a fix for
    crashes when running multithreaded.
 6) Changes/fixes to strength limitation feature.
 7) Fix possible out of range errors in razoring code.
 8) Fixes to king cover parameter tuning code. Re-tune parameters.
 9) Changes to LMR. Adjust LMR amount based on history values.
 10) Remove Util class and replace with std library functions.
 11) Allow null move at depth = 1 ply.
 12) Changes to futility, reverse futility, and razoring margins.
 13) Fix possible bug in output of time control increment to PGN.
 14) Separate scoring for outposts in middlegame/endgame.

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PokerTH is an open source Texas Hold'em poker game with which you can play poker against the computer, on a LAN or via the Internet. The game is faithful to the Texas Hold 'em rules and betting system. It allows for up to ten human players, with computer-controlled players filling in if there are not enough humans. Players can also play against other PokerTH users online.

Open Source

Changelog

- PokerTH is now fully compatible with c++11 compilation mode
- Upgraded to websockets 0.7
- BUGFIX: SQL errors are saved to server log (partly #324)
- BUGFIX: Players deliberately preventing start of play (#304)
- BUGFIX: Rating feature didn't work for special usernames (#319)
- BUGFIX: Ignore feature only works after restart (#320)
- BUGFIX: Shorten too long usernames on the table gui (#326)
- BUGFIX: "accidentally call" blocker now for working for FKey presses (#330)

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Changelog

 1) Change queen mobility scoring: square reach beyond 23 squares gets
    same score.
 2) Re-work scoring for material imbalance with pawns.
 3) Bug fixes for EPD/FEN handling (mostly affects utility programs).
 4) Bug fixes for bitbases. Mate scores from bitbases were not being
    transmitted to the search. Also bitbase scores were being added to
    other eval terms which are not relevant for KPK.
 5) Syzygy code (Fathom) is imported as a git submodule now.
 6) Code restructuring, move piece values into Param class.
 7) Change eval scale so Pawn value = 128 (vs. 1000 in 20.2).
 8) Implement UCI "searchmoves" option to "go" command.
 9) Bug fixes in parameter tuner.
 10) If special-case endgame detected, skip other endgame scoring and
    just use the special-case code.
 11) In UCI MultiPV mode, ensure bestmove that is eventually sent is the
    highest-scoring move, and re-order PVs if necessary so that they are
    in decreasing score order.
 12) Implement BMI2 (PEXT/PDEP) attack computation.
 13) Change evasion pruning in qearch.
 14) Pack hash entries into 2 64-bits words instead of 3.

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Transcendence is a "Space Trader" type game with an action-based "Asteroids" interface. The objective of the game is to destroy enemy ships and stations, loot their wrecks, and improve your ship so that you can take on more powerful opponents.

Freeware

https://transcendence.kronosaur.com/

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Lucas Chess is a chess game with a chess trainer built in designed to help you beat increasingly difficult opponents with a limited number of hints.

Changelog

Bugs fixed:

    Analisys, reduced the number of nags produced by analysis (Giovanni di María)
    Database, save to PGN when select codec = same as file.
    Playing against a game when mate.
    Database: to create polyglot books doesn´t works
    Training positions, bad message when tutor disabled and the training is guided (variator)



News:

    Scanner of positions, added Alt left, Alt key-left, Alt key-up, Alt key-right, Alt key-down to scan non-square cells
    Turn on the lights, added more info

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LaunchBox is a portable box art based games database and launcher for DOSBox, emulators, and PC games. LaunchBox aims to be the one-stop shop for gaming on your computer, for both modern and historical games.

Get Up and Running Right Away

It includes automated import processes for Steam and D-Fend Reloaded in order to help get you up and running as quickly as possible. Game box-art and metadata is automatically downloaded from TheGamesDB.net, a community-based online database that allows anyone to contribute. More import processes are planned for the near future, including Origin, DBGL, and batch ROM imports.

Freeware

Changelog

Retro achievements are now accessible in LaunchBox from retroachievements.org! Add your account under Tools > Options > Search > Retro Achievements, and then your achievements will show up in the LaunchBox game details sidebar.
New Premium Feature: Retro achievements are now accessible in Big Box as well from the game details menu, or with a hotkey or controller button via Options > Keyboard Mappings > View Achievements or Options > Controller Buttons > View Achievements.
New Feature: Community star ratings are now available in LaunchBox and will show as a slightly different color. You can download the community's star ratings for your games by using Tools > Download Metadata and Media.
New Feature: Star ratings set in LaunchBox will now automatically upload to the LaunchBox Games Database in order to contribute to the community's ratings. You can disable this under Tools > Options > Search.
New Feature: Two new options have been added to Tools > Options > Search: "Use Community Star Ratings when Filtering or Arranging by Star Rating" and "Minimum number of community ratings in order to use". These will allow you to specify whether or not you want to use the community star ratings when filtering and arranging your collection, and how many community votes are required before considering the value.
New Premium Feature: Star ratings are now available in Big Box! They will show up by default in the game details views, but can be disabled under Options > Game Details.
New Premium Feature: Star ratings can now be set in Big Box from either the game details menu or via a hotkey or controller button under Options > Keyboard Mappings > Set Star Rating or Options > Controller Buttons > Set Star Rating. An option is available to hide the Star Rating from the game details menu as well.
Improvement: Three new fields have been added to the LaunchBox list view: Star Rating, Community Star Rating, and Community Star Rating Count
Improvement: Removed the seldom-used game details popup, which was made mostly irrelevant by the game details sidebar back when we implemented it. It wasn't very usable with all of the added images and became completely horrendous with the achievements; there are also some performance improvements as a result.
Improvement: Syncing your collection to the cloud now reports progress and is much quicker; viewing your collection on the web is much quicker as well
Improvement: Star ratings can now be set at half values
Improvement: The included version of 7-Zip has been upgraded to the latest version (16.04)
Improvement: The end of the Download Metadata and Media process in LaunchBox has been optimized to be multi-threaded so that the interface does not appear to be locked up when finishing up the process
Improvement: When switching the global theme in the Big Box options, platform-specific and playlist-specific themes are now reset in order to reduce confusion
Improvement: There are two new Theme Settings for Big Box custom themes: Force16X9AspectRatio and Force4X3AspectRatio, which should hopefully resolve issues running certain themes on 16x10 monitors and similar situations
Fixed: Game titles are no longer overwritten when downloading metadata and images and a new LaunchBox Games Database ID is found
Fixed: Developers, genres, and other non-game text lists in Big Box had an occasional issue with the text index caused by The, A, and An
Fixed: Big Box marquee screen had some placement issues when using a smaller resolution on the main display than on the marquee display
Fixed: When using the Text with Game Details view in Big Box, the logo at the top of the list was sometimes not updating
Fixed: Viewing videos full screen from the Big Box game details menu was sometimes not showing the video
Fixed: After closing the Options window, the LaunchBox main window border was corrupted on some systems
Fixed: "Prioritize Music over Video Audio" in Big Box was not working on rare occasions and the video audio and music would both play at the same time
Fixed: On Big Box games text list views, the selection bar was sometimes missing when first loading up the view
Fixed: When switching themes per platform or playlist in Big Box, sometimes it was confusing and/or the theme was not saving due to invalid views for certain themes. The view is now reset to the default when switching themes for a particular platform or playlist.

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Changelog

- Change: When train depots have a horizontal scrollbar, allow scrolling 1 tile beyond the longest train, so you can actually attach a wagon at the end (r27937)
- Fix: When moving wagons in the depot, the drag highlight did not exactly match the length of the dragged wagon chain (r27936)
- Fix: [Win32] Right mouse scrolling didn't work properly with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update [FS#6629] (r27935)
- Fix: Forest, candyfloss forest and battery farm skipped the first animation frame [FS#6639] (r27932)
- Fix: Glyphs in range U+0020 to U+00FF may only be defined in orig_extra.grf, not in openttd.grf [FS#6620] (r27915)
- Fix: 'unban' console command was not handling IPv6 adresses properly (r27914, r27913)
- Fix: Keep the 'link' between industry chain and smallmap windows whenever possible [FS#6585] (r27905)
- Fix: When the last vehicle is removed from a shared orders group, hide the 'Stop sharing' button in the vehicle orders window [FS#6593] (r27904)
- Fix: Tooltip of 'increase service interval' said 'decrease' [FS#6606] (r27895)
- Fix: Console command parser passed invalid strings to the debug output, if command lines had many parameters [FS#6576] (r27884, r27883)

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Whats new:>>

Improvement: Additional logging features are now available for troubleshooting particularly difficult issues; can be manually turned on by altering the DebugLog setting in the Settings.xml file. This is not recommended for normal use as it may cause performance issues.
Fixed: Rare stability issues in Big Box

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Changelog

Changes in Arasan 20.4.1:
 1) Fixes to ensure tablebases are initalized before search in UCI GUIs.
 2) Fix to output correct TB scores in UCI multi-pv mode.

Changes in Arasan 20.4 (Jan. 2017):
 1) Fix Linux/Mac Makefile so PGO works with clang.
 2) Code cleanup. Replace NULL with nullptr in most places (except some C library calls).
 3) Fix serious bug in Syzygy tb code for handling cursed losses.
 4) Fix "ecocoder" target in Makefile and fix ecocoder code (sync with changes to Notation).
 5) Updates to "pgnselect" utility program.
 6) A few fixes in the tuner program. Remove ordinal objective (was not working properly).
 7) Add -d option to test command so can do fixed depth. Profile uses fixed depth now.
 8) Some updates to the label_positions.py tool.
 9) Re-tune parameters with larger traning set and more frequent PV updates.
 10) Bug fixes in "easy move" code.
 11) Some minor changes/fixes to root move ordering.
 12) Bug fixes for UCI multi-pv mode.
 13) Add UCI contempt option.

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Changelog

New Premium Feature: Big Box now includes a built-in PDF/browser viewer for manuals that can be controlled with all existing controllers. This is implemented via the Chromium Embedded Framework (an embedded, open-source version of Google Chrome). If desired, this can be disabled under the Big Box General options.
New Feature: Retroarch Netplay support is now built-in to LaunchBox and Big Box, largely thanks to Izegod from the forums who built a plugin for it! Simply right-click on a supported game and select Retroarch Netplay in LaunchBox, or access the Retroarch Netplay options from the game details menu in Big Box.
New Feature: A new "Download Updated Community Star Ratings" option is available under the Tools menu in LaunchBox; this makes it much easier and faster to update star ratings, rather than having to run the Download Metadata and Media wizard.
Improvement: LaunchBox and Big Box startup times have been significantly reduced. The "Populating Platforms" portion of the startup screen should now be instantaneous in most situations.
Improvement: LaunchBox now supports jump to game by letter (press an alphanumeric key on the keyboard), similar to Windows Explorer
Improvement: The LaunchBox Welcome form has been revamped and modernized
Improvement: Added community star ratings support to the LaunchBox Plugin API. The following fields have been added to the IGame interface: CommunityOrLocalStarRating, StarRatingFloat, CommunityStarRating, and CommunityStarRatingTotalVotes. See the documentation here: http://pluginapi.launchbox-app.com/html/b33d2055-e2be-3f42-12c6-adbc5668f454.htm
Improvement: Added retro achievements support to the LaunchBox Plugin API. See the new Unbroken.LaunchBox.Plugins.RetroAchievements namespace for details. Documentation is here: http://pluginapi.launchbox-app.com/
Improvement: Retro achievements will now use alternate names from the games database if the game is not found; this requires the game to be already matched up to a LaunchBox Games Database ID
Improvement: The Big Box wall view now supports videos for custom themes
Improvement: The FilterTitle property is now available for all games views in Big Box custom themes
Improvement: The included version of ScummVM has been updated to the latest version! The ScummVM games list has also been updated.
Improvement: The Big Box star rating popup has been changed to jump only to half-star and whole-star values; in addition, pressing the Back button/key will no longer save the changed star rating. Pressing the select/enter key/button will, of course, save the value.
Fixed: Valve/Steam decided to kill our API Key for no apparent reason (or at least none that we received any communication about), which broke the Steam import wizard. This has been fixed with a new API key. Hopefully they don't kill this one...
Fixed: Retro Achievements were causing errors to pop up in LaunchBox if the retroachievements.org website went down
Fixed: Some Big Box theme combinations resulted in issues saving different views for each platform
Fixed: The game details sidebar in LaunchBox was not remembering its sizing when closed and restarting LaunchBox

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Whats new:>>

Fixed: Alphanumeric navigation in LaunchBox caused a conflict with arrow key navigation (jumping to games starting with "Up")
Fixed: On rare occasions when switching themes in Big Box and returning to the filters view, the details were not populated and Escape could not be used without first switching the selection

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New Feature: Images can now be deleted directly from the game details sidebar in LaunchBox via a new right-click menu
Improvement: The included CriticalZone theme for Big Box has been updated to version 2; huge thanks to CriticalCid for his continued work on the theme! To use it, select the new "CriticalZoneV2 - Default" theme under Options > Views in Big Box. More versions of the theme are also available on the LaunchBox forums.
Improvement: A new "Wheel Easing" option has been added to Big Box that makes wheels and CoverFlow appear smoother by easing animations in and out. It's on by default but can be disabled under Options > Views.

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Changelog

New Feature: LaunchBox.Next is now available; it's a complete overhaul for the main LaunchBox interface. It's largely still in development, but you can try it out by clicking the LaunchBox.Next button in the header or running the new LaunchBox.Next.exe file from the LaunchBox folder.
New Feature: Five new options have been added to the View menu in LaunchBox to hide games missing videos, front box art, screenshots, clear logos, and/or background images. These options will trigger a process to populate a missing media cache that will allow quick navigation. There's also an option underneath these five items to "Refresh All Missing Media" in case you've manually added or removed images directly from the file system.
New Feature: The list view in LaunchBox now allows you to hide and show columns by right-clicking on the column headers, and will save your preferences as well as the column order
Improvement: A new "Show Platform Banner Images" option was added to Big Box to allow you to hide the platform banner images if you don't want them obstructing the view of the background; the setting is available under Options > Images.
Improvement: A new "Allow Computer to Sleep while not in Attract Mode" option has been added to the Big Box General options for users who want Big Box to allow their computers to sleep
Improvement: Scanning for added ROMs performance has been drastically improved
Fixed: Sorting by title in the LaunchBox list view now correctly sorts by Sort Title
Fixed: When using the search box in LaunchBox, the scroll position was not reset which was sometimes confusing because it appeared that not all results were shown
Fixed: The images portion of the Edit Game dialog had some minor positioning issues on higher DPIs
Fixed: Steam killed off our API key once again, again breaking the Steam import wizard. We've changed it to ask the user to get their own API key from Steam in order to resolve the issue.

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