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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=
=Forum Posts=
==2009==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29385 2009 WCRCC: Bright/Spark issue] by [[Charles Roberson]], [[CCC]], August 13, 2009
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30432 Spark released] by [[Allard Siemelink]], [[CCC]], November 01, 2009
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31617 Spark 0.3a (mp) released] by [[Allard Siemelink]], [[CCC]], January 11, 2010
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34476 Spark 0.4 released] by [[Allard Siemelink]], [[CCC]], May 23, 2010
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37020 Spark 1.0 released] by [[Allard Siemelink]], [[CCC]], December 10, 2010
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40788 Spark 2.0 Leiden 2011 ?] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], October 16, 2011
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74662 Spark by Allard Siemelink ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], August 02, 2020
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskra Iskra (Spark) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparks Sparks (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [[:Category:Hiromi Uehara|Hiromi Uehara]], [httphttps://wwwen.cadoganhallwikipedia.comorg/event/hiromi-the-trio-projectwiki/ Hiromi_Uehara#Trio The Trio Project], feat. [[:Category:Anthony Jackson|Anthony Jackson]] & [[:Category:Simon Phillips|Simon Phillips]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Uehara#Trio Spark_(Hiromi_album) Spark], (2016), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2ob2Cakn0soFrk0PAbhk|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
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