Introduction
Spark is an experimental engine for playing chess.
While Spark uses a new search algorithm, new evaluation heuristics and a different board structure,
it should roughly play as strong as my other engine: Bright
Spark runs on the following OS'es:
64 bit: Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux, Mac OSX
32 bit: Windows XP/Vista/7
Requirements
1. A chess GUI, such as Arena, that supports the UCI protocol.
2. A computer with a fairly recent processor (that supports SSE2)
Installation
1. Use your favorite archiver (e.g. 7zip) to unpack the downloaded file.
2. Configure spark as a UCI engine in your chess GUI.
Downloads
By downloading any of the files below, you indicate your consent with the license terms.
drdeeb-2010.zip (June 16, 2010: opening book by Wael Deeb, 6.5Mb)
To activate the book, edit spark.ini:
book.file=drdeeb-2010.bbk
(or rename drdeeb-2010.bbk to spark.bbk, replacing the default book)
spark-0.4.zip (May 23, 2010: for win32+64, linux64: 40 elo stronger, bug fixes)
spark-0.4-osx2.zip (June 14, 2010: for Mac OSX 10.5+, Intel 64-bit)
spark-0.3a (January 10, 2010: MP version and bug fixes)
Choose OS: Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac OSX 64-bit Linux 64-bit
spark-0.3.zip (October 18, 2009, first public version)