SPARKCHESS 6
Smart and Fun
SparkChess 6 Premium for PC gives you many exclusive features not available online.
Beginner to advanced, SparkChess enables you to play better chess and have fun.
Faster. Stronger.
Challenging and fun.
Special code optimizations make SparkChess Premium a more powerful opponent. Boris plays stronger than in the free edition, while the exclusive Guru will spend up to 3 minutes finding the best way to outsmart you. And if you ever get impatient, you can force them to stop thinking and move right away, thanks to the new multithreading architecture.
Full HD fantasy chess set.
Kids love it. Your inner child will love it too.
The standard 3D chess set is nice and clean, but if you ever get tired of it, the new Medieval Fantasy set will definitely catch your eye. We carefully modeled each piece in 3D and then hand-painted them, taking care of all the tiny details and making sure the pieces are easily recognizable. Speaking of tiny details, if you have an HD screen, you will want to maximize the SparkChess window and enjoy the beautiful graphics. Oh, and we made sure the pieces are suitable for young children too – they love it, by the way.
Visual hints.
They’re like training wheels, only better.
We’ve all been there. You’re trying to come up with a strategy only to overlook an undefended piece. Or you failed to spot a valid move while in check. Or you missed the last computer move. Visual hints take care of all these and can be turned on and off at a click of a button. An arrow indicates the last move. Pieces you can move are marked with green; pieces the opponent can capture are marked with red while enemy pieces you can capture are blue.
Board analysis.
Plan your attack.
See who controls the board. Find enemy weak spots and advance your pieces. Pierce through enemy’s defenses. Board analysis is an excellent tool when learning about strategy and board control. Shades of red, blue and purple give a fast at-a-glance assessment of the board.
Board Editor.
Make your own game.
Arrange pieces on the board just as you’d do with a real chess set by drag&drop. Copy the position as a simple text in FEN format for future reference. Import and play famous puzzles. It’s easy and fun.
Suggest a move.
Stuck? Get directions.
Stuck on a move? Ask the computer to suggest a move for you. You get the recommendation in plain English and with a nice visual arrow to see exactly what will happen. Then you can carry out the move or try to find a better one yourself.
Replay.
With comments too.
Pause and rewind the current game using intuitive VCR-like controls. Export it in the chess-standard PGN format. Load an annotated game and play it, watching the comments. Numeric annotations (NAGs) are interpreted and recursive variations (RAVs) are shown too. When you replay your own game, the openings are named, so you can hopefully learn more about Queen’s Gambit or the Sicilian Defence. And yes, you can see the board in 3D or 2D Diagram mode.
PGN support.
Load that famous game.
Export the current game in the standard PGN format. Import individual games or entire databases of annotated games. The internet is full of hand-picked famous matches that you can load and replay.
The Crown.
You get the Royal treatment.
In Multiplayer, Premium users are indicated on the Invitation List with a crown. Crowned users are often fairer and overall better players. SparkChess Premium accounts can have scores higher than 10,000 points, get preferential access and are never removed if inactive for long periods. It’s good to be the King (or Queen)!
Chat.
Chess is for friends.
Playing online with a friend? Chat as you play. Enjoying the silence? Chat is disabled by default so the other player can’t annoy you if you want to concentrate on the game instead. And because we value civility, if your account is marked as being for a person under the age of 13, bad words are filtered out.
Here's a summary of the SparkChess 6 Premium features:
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| Unlimited score | |
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| Unlimited daily games | |
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What people are saying about SparkChess
Your chess board and pieces are the best by far (compared to any other program, including Fritz 12). Really amazing. Thank you so very very much for the work you've put into producing this program.
Sherwin S.
This is a great game for my boy, who is six years old. A Grand Master in the making.
Daniel C.
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James S.
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Liviu N.
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Terry B.
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