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Hi,

"Spike 1.0 Mainz" is released, still freeware and available to download. As
always the link is

Homepage of spike

New features are:

* Chess960 support with Winboard- and UCI-Protocol.
* Nalimov EGTB support
* About 50-80 additional ELO of playing strength compared to Spike 0.9(a).

It will take some time, at least 6 month, before the next version of Spike will
be released.

Greetings Ralf & Volker

Als UCI bleibt Spike 1. 0 im Analysemodus beim Vorspielen in der Zugliste stehen.

GUI: Arena 1.10, Shredder Classic

OS: Windows 2000
Athlon 64
Hash: 256 MB

Hoffe ihr k?nnt es bald fixen. Ist ein wichtiges Feature f?r Turnierspieler.

Gru?

TL

Ja, die neue Version werden wir heute irgendwann (sehr sp?t) zum Download zur Verf?gung stellen.

Gru? Volker

Volker B?hm wrote:Hi,
"Spike 1.0 Mainz" is released, still freeware and available to download.
Greetings Ralf & Volker

Hi Ralf and Volker,

many thanks for your great engine!
We fans are very lucky these days

Peter

Hi all,

Spike had a problem with analyzing games in UCI-Mode.

The bugfixed version of Spike is now available for download.

Best wishes
Ralf

I have had a problem with Spike under Winboard - it rejected a legal move from Arasan during a match.

The partial game is as follows:

[Event "?"]
[Site "-"]
[Date "2005.08.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Arasan 9.0"]
[Black "Spike 1.0 Mainz"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "C98"]
[TimeControl "300+10"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3
d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. d5 Na5
14. Nf1 c4 15. b4 cxb3 16. axb3 Nb7 17. Qd3 Nh5 18. Bd2 f5 19. Qe2
Nf6 20. Ne3 Nxe4 21. Nxf5 Bxf5 22. Bxe4 Bxe4 23. Qxe4 Nc5 24. Qc2 e4
25. Nd4 Bh4 26. g3 Qf7 27. gxh4 Qxf2+ 28. Kh1 Rf3 29. Nxf3 Qxf3+
30. Kh2 Qf2+ 31. Kh1 *

Kh1 was the move rejected as illegal.

i have the same problem

Could you please help me and send me a winboard - debug file?

With Arena and the current pgn I haven?t got any problem.

Greetings Volker

Have you played with ponder=on under the GUI "Winboard"?

Greetins Volker

I thought I saved the log but then I couldn't find it. I did look at it and it was clear that Spike was rejecting the move.

I did have ponder=on on a dual-processor machine, and this is under the winboard GUI.

jdart wrote:I thought I saved the log but then I couldn't find it. I did look at it and it was clear that Spike was rejecting the move.

I did have ponder=on on a dual-processor machine, and this is under the winboard GUI.

I think I saw the same happen here a few times, I have send the logfile to Volker and Ralf.

Best wishes,
Leo

[...]
It will take some time, at least 6 month, before the next version of Spike will be released.[...]

That are good news allowing the people to
thoroughly test your engine. Otherwisw its
very annoying to get new versions every week.
Best regards
Kurt

Hallo Kurt,

Was h?lst Du so von Spike?
Also ich mu? sagen das Engine spielt ein sehr gutes Schach.
Meine Sch?tzung ist das sich Spike in der Spitze plazieren wird.

Andi