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an [[UCI]] compatible chess engine by [[Allard Siemelink]], written in [[Cpp|C++]].
During 2008, Allard Siemelink found that it became increasingly hard to improve his [[0x88]] engine [[Bright]] much further, and started to create a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] framework along with a [[Perft]] benchmark which evolved to Spark with [[Search|search]] and [[Evaluation|evaluation]] developed from scratch to try as much as possible alternative search strategies and evaluation terms for the ones that are found in Bright.
Spark's evaluation is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mined] from a [[Databases|database]] of 700,000 high quality games <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120302103748/http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spark/ Spark Chess] by [[Allard Siemelink]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref>. Spark can be compiled to run under [[Windows]], [[Linux]] and [[Mac OS]].
=Parallel Search=
