Quark

Boiled potatoes with quark and linseed oil ¹

Pellkartoffeln mit Quark und Leinöl, Image by Dr. Bernd Gross, December 20, 2014, see Diskussion:Quark mit Leinöl/Archiv (German), Wikimedia Commons ↩︎

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 ¹. Over the board, Quark played the 11th World Computer Chess Championship in Graz 2003 ², as well as various IPCCCs in Paderborn, Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship, International CSVN Tournament ³ in Leiden and the BELCT 2001 ⁴ in Berlin. It further played multiple CCT Tournaments.

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Source Code

Quarks first lines, Quote by Thomas Mayer ⁵:

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// QuarkChess
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// My First Program in C++
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// Author : Thomas Mayer
// eMail  : [email protected]
// startet: 9th November 2000
// Previous versions: Some PommiChess - Basic and Pascal... Back to 1985
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// Current Version: 1.68alpha
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// Last Change: 7th January 2002
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