Quark
Quark,
a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Thomas Mayer, written in C++. Beside using alpha-beta, Quark used to improve about 100 Elo each in implementing a transposition table, null move pruning and an advanced evaluation along with various speed improvements [2].
Over the board, Quark played the 11th World Computer Chess Championship in Graz 2003 [3],
as well as various IPCCCs in Paderborn, Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship, International CSVN Tournament [4] in Leiden and the BELCT 2001 [5] in Berlin.
It further played multiple CCT Tournaments.
Contents
Source Code
Quarks first lines, Quote by Thomas Mayer [6]:
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // QuarkChess //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // My First Program in C++ //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Author : Thomas Mayer // eMail : thomas.j.mayer@t-online.de // startet: 9th November 2000 // Previous versions: Some PommiChess - Basic and Pascal... Back to 1985 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Current Version: 1.68alpha //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Last Change: 7th January 2002 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See also
Forum Posts
- Quark v1.22 by Thomas Mayer, CCC, March 19, 2001
- Quark and Leiden by Stefan Knappe, Winboard Forum, May 18, 2001 » ICT 2001
- Re: Leiden: Tao-Quark 1-0 stunning opening by Theo van der Storm, CCC, May 20, 2001 » ICT 2001, Tao
- The Game: Chessmaster - Quark by Dann Corbit, CCC, May 22, 2001 » Chessmaster
- Quark v1.50 by Thomas Mayer, CCC, September 10, 2001
- CCT4 Tao/Quark by Bas Hamstra, CCC, January 26, 2002 » CCT4, Tao
- Quark 2.35 draw claim bug by Igor Korshunov, Winboard Forum, March 28, 2005 » Draw
- Re: Best feature? by Thomas Mayer, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006
- WinBoard & Chessclub.com by Thomas Mayer, Winboard Forum, January 25, 2010 » WinBoard
External Links
Chess Engine
- Quark by Thomas Mayer
- Quark's ICGA Tournaments
- The chess games of Quark (Computer) from chessgames.com
- Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/QuarkChess (Compilation) collected by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
Misc
- Quark (cheese) at Wikipedia
- Quark, a generic type of physical particle from Wikipedia
- Quarks - X resources from Wikipedia
- The Quark kernel from Wikipedia
- Quark, Inc. from Wikipedia
- Quark (anthology series) from Wikipedia
- Quark a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Wikipedia
- List of Doctor Who robots from Wikipedia
- Peugeot Quark from Wikipedia
- Die Ärzte - Quark 1993, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Pellkartoffeln mit Quark und Leinöl, Image by Dr. Bernd Gross, December 20, 2014, see Diskussion:Quark mit Leinöl/Archiv (German), Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Re: Best feature? by Thomas Mayer, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006
- ↑ Quark's ICGA Tournaments
- ↑ 1st CSVN-Tournament 2001
- ↑ BELCT 2001 Berlin is worth a trip!
- ↑ Re: CCT4 Tao/Quark by Thomas Mayer, CCC, January 26, 2002
