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Boiled potatoes with quark and linseed oil ¹

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.

Source Code

Quarks first lines, Quote by Thomas Mayer ⁵:

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// QuarkChess
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// My First Program in C++
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Author : Thomas Mayer
// eMail  : [email protected]
// 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
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%2C_Inc. 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

Watch on YouTube

References