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Spark 1.0 Chess Engine

6/28/2018 
New Chess Engine

10 strongest free chess engines all above 3000 elo. Spark 1.0, ELO ~3000. Spark is a new chess engine with a unique playing style. Official Website.

Roughly 3110 ELO (CCRL 40/4) Regressions vs. 1.4: +84 in 8000 games at 3+0.02 +97 in 4000 games at 15+0.05 Major changes from 1.4: • Multiple bugfixes • Low depth pruning changes • Evaluation tuning • Implement pondering • This is a preliminary release of pondering, which may not work with GUIs other than Cutechess. Pondering support will continue to improve in future versions. Three binaries are provided: • Laser-1_5-BMI2 for Haswell or later processors with BMI2 instruction support • Laser-1_5 for 64-bit machines with POPCOUNT instruction support • Laser-1_5-NOPOPCNT for 64-bit machines without POPCOUNT. Roughly 3020 ELO (CCRL 40/4) Regressions vs.

1.3: +86 in 8000 games at 3+0.02 +108 in 4000 games at 15+0.05 Major changes from 1.3: • Multiple bugfixes (Syzygy, UCI parsing, eval) • Add countermoves history • Evaluation tuning • Lots of new evaluation terms • New UCI options for scaling material and king safety value Three binaries are provided: • Laser-1_4-BMI2 for Haswell or later processors with BMI2 instruction support • Laser-1_4 for 64-bit machines with POPCOUNT instruction support • Laser-1_4-NOPOPCNT for 64-bit machines without POPCOUNT. Roughly 2950 ELO (CCRL) Regressions vs. 1.2: +131 in 8000 games at 3+0.02 +128 in 4000 games at 15+0.05 Major changes from 1.2: Syzygy TB support Evaluation tuning using a method based on Texel's Tuning Method LMR at PV nodes Change LMR formula, create a search stack to provide more information for pruning decisions (ideas from Stockfish) Three binaries are now provided. • Laser-1_3 for 64-bit machines with POPCOUNT support • Laser-1_3-NOPOPCNT for 64-bit machines without POPCOUNT • Laser-1_3-x86 for 32-bit machines. The 32-bit compile is not optimized very well - this may improve in a future release.

Thanks also to Michael Byrne for providing a Mac compile. Stable release Roughly 2700 ELO (CCRL) Regressions vs. 0.2.1: +97 in 10000 games at 3+0.02 +108 in 2000 games at 15+0.05 Major changes from 0.2.1: Bugfixes (prevent connection stalls and fix crashes) Lazy SMP up to 32 threads (tested on up to 4) Better three-fold detection Improved eval (rooks on open files, knight outposts, mobility) Provided binaries are for 64-bit Windows. Use the NOPOPCNT version for Intel processors before 2008 or non-Intel processors. Binaries have only been tested on 64-bit Windows and Intel processors.

See README for more information. Thanks to Michael Byrne for providing a Mac compile. Semi-stable release: crashes occasionally in near-mate positions (once every few thousand games) Update 10/29: crashes appear to occur more frequently than expected.

This will be patched as soon as possible. Roughly 2600 ELO Regressions vs. 0.1: +201 in 5000 games at 3+0.02 +250 in 2000 games at 15+0.05 Major changes from 0.1: Bugfixes (LMR and hashing, UCI timing parsing) Better scaling Extensions and more pruning (futility and late move) Improved eval (passed pawns, king safety, basic endgames) Provided binaries are for 64-bit Windows. Use the NOPOPCNT version for Intel processors before 2008 or non-Intel processors.

Binaries have only been tested on 64-bit Windows and Intel processors. See README for more information. Google Earth Pro 4.2.205 K here.

SparkChess requires Javascript to run! SparkChess is a free online chess game that allows you to practice chess against the computer and to engage in multiplayer online challenges (or to just watch others play). SparkChess is an excellent way to get better at chess - learn the proper rules (including the elusive en-passant), practice openings, test strategies, use the board editor to recreate famous positions via FEN strings, replay famous games, import/export PGN games and databases (with comments and annotations and let the computer help you. With 5 levels of difficulty and a behavior modeled to make human mistakes, this is a very fun game to play. Our online chess game also features an opening database created by analysing 145,000 games from international tournaments.

Sarah Lawrence Dance Program here. There are 4 different board styles (a 2D diagram, 2 fixed 3D designs and a 3D rotatable board) to suit any style - from the playful kid to the serious tournament player. With the multiplayer feature, you can put your skills to the test against other players like you! You can create an account or play as guest. You can filter out opponents based on different criteria. The multiplayer service is child-friendly. If you don't feel like playing, you can now just watch live games as they unfold. SparkChess has won many awards and it was featured by Google, Blackberry and Adobe for its cross-platform capabilities.