Spark 1.0 released

[Allard Siemelink]

Thanks Allard!

What kind of strength increase, if any, do you expect from this version?

Peter

According to my tests at extremely fast time controls:
30 elo over the previous public version (0.4),
and a little stronger than 0.5 (which was private).

[Christian Goralski]

Hi Allard,

thank you very much for the Spark 1.0 release!

I can`t play/analyze with engine here under Chessbase GUI with 4096 MB Hashables!
I get the following error message from the GUI: "spark-1.0-win64-mp-corei" caused an exception.
2048 MB Hashables works without any problems.


Sincerely Christian Goralski

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Allard,

at first:
Thanks for your new version!

I have no luck in CSS OM tourney.
2x remis, 3x lost but I am playing with weeker hardware.

Here I had a problem that the Fritz 12 GUI crashed if I gave Spark 0.5 2Gg for Hash-Tables.

You spoke from 30 ELO ...
Look here ...

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Spark 0.5 x64                2741   13   13  1974   54%  2713   37% 
Spark 0.4 x64                2720   20   20   840   53%  2698   40% 
Spark 0.5 w32                2708   16   17  1200   51%  2702   41% 
Spark 0.4 w32                2686   19   19   880   49%  2692   42% 
Spark 0.3a w32               2655   17   17  1120   44%  2698   41% 
Spark 0.3 w32                2643   19   19   880   43%  2690   42% 

33 ELO more from x64 version 0.5 to 0.4
22 ELO more from w32 version 0.5 to 0.4

I will start 1.000 SWCR games December 14th, 2010.
If you like you can follow at this time the LIVE table on my webpage.

Best and thanks again!
Frank

Do you know that Spark is my favorite engine?
What for a great tactial power your Spark have!
I like it so much.
Congratulation for you and ... for me

[Norm Pollock]

Hi Allard,

Any chance for a generic non-ss2 version?

-Norm

[Mike S.]

new features:
- multipv
- some UCI options to tune evaluation

Thanks! This is very good news.

[Jouni]

Great, finally version 1.0 - I hate version numbers 0.xx for ELO 3100 engines

Jouni

[Sylwy]

Spark 1.0 is now available from http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spar

Hello Mr.Siemelink !

Take a look-please- here:
http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spark/

....and here:
http://www.sparkchess.com/privacy-policy.html

Nothing to do ?

Regards,
Silvian

[Graham Banks]

Spark 1.0 is now available from http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spar

Hello Mr.Siemelink !

Take a look-please- here:
http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spark/

....and here:
http://www.sparkchess.com/privacy-policy.html

Nothing to do ?

Regards,
Silvian

Looks like they forgot to edit the dates at the bottom of one of their pages:

©2009 Media Division • Privacy Notes • Terms of Use
All rights reserved Media Division srl

Apart from yourself, who has heard of this product before?

[Sylwy]

Spark 1.0 is now available from http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spar

Hello Mr.Siemelink !

Take a look-please- here:
http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spark/

....and here:
http://www.sparkchess.com/privacy-policy.html

Nothing to do ?

Regards,
Silvian

Looks like they forgot to edit the dates at the bottom of one of their pages:

©2009 Media Division • Privacy Notes • Terms of Use
All rights reserved Media Division srl

Apart from yourself, who has heard of this product before?

Hi Graham !

Take a look-please- at the foot of this web page !
http://www.sparkchess.com/download.html

©2002-2010 Media Division • Privacy Notes • Terms of Use
All rights reserved Media Division ltd.

And yes , this product is well known. Was awarded in 2008 by Adobe. Media Division SRL works with Adobe egineers and is an on-line chess game from many years !
http://www.sparkchess.com/licensing.html

Spark of Mr. Siemelink is only from 2009 !
Hope a trade mark is valid everywhere. Not only for Western products !
The silence of Mr.Siemelink is interesting !

Regards,
Silvian

[Allard Siemelink]

Thanks for reminding me, this is fixed in the next release.

Hi Allard,

thank you very much for the Spark 1.0 release!

I can`t play/analyze with engine here under Chessbase GUI with 4096 MB Hashables!
I get the following error message from the GUI: "spark-1.0-win64-mp-corei" caused an exception.
2048 MB Hashables works without any problems.


Sincerely Christian Goralski