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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. Over the board, Quark played the 11th World Computer Chess Championship in Graz 2003 , as well as various IPCCCs in Paderborn, Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship, International CSVN Tournament in Leiden and the BELCT 2001 in Berlin. It further played multiple CCT Tournaments.

=Source Code= Quarks first lines, Quote by Thomas Mayer : //--- // 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=
 * Cheese
 * Querg

=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

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