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Spartan,
an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Christian Daley, written in C and distributed under the GNU General Public License, first released in April 2016 as successor of JFresh ¹. As a pure bitboard engine, Spartan applies Matt Taylor's folding trick to scan bits ², and Brian Kernighan's way to count bits ³. In calculating king passer tropism in evaluation, Spartan uses the Euclidean distance between king and passer squares with double arithmetic due to C standard library square root (double sqrt(double)) ^{4 5} of the sum of squares of rank difference and file difference, which is quite expensive. Recommended is looking up the Chebyshev distance or Manhattan distance for that purpose.

Features

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Board Representation

• Bitboard Board-Definition
• Magic Bitboards

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows
• Alpha-Beta
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Selectivity
  • Razoring
  • Futility Pruning
  • Null Move Pruning
  • ProbCut
  • Late Move Reductions
  • History Leaf Pruning
  • Quiescence Search
    • Delta Pruning
    • SEE Pruning
• Move Ordering
  • Static Exchange Evaluation
  • Killer Heuristic
  • History Heuristic

Evaluation

• Material
• Tapered Eval
• Piece-Square Tables
• Mobility
• Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
• Connectivity
• Pawn Structure
  • Pawn Hash Table
  • Backward Pawn
  • Doubled Pawn
  • Isolated Pawn
• Passed Pawn
  • Unstoppable Passer
  • King Passer Tropism
• King Safety
  • Attacking King Zone
  • Pawn Shelter
  • Pawn Storm

Misc

• Bratko-Kopec Test
• CCR One Hour Test

See also

• JFresh
• Spartan Chess ⁷

Forum Posts

• New UCI engine: Spartan by CDaley11, OpenChess Forum, April 23, 2016
• New UCI engine Spartan released (a while ago) by Günther Simon, CCC, May 11, 2016

External Links

Chess Engine

• GitHub - christiandaley/Spartan: UCI chess engine
• Spartan 1.0 in CCRL Blitz

Misc

• spartan - Wiktionary
• Spartan - Wiktionary
• Spartan Chess - Chess Variant Page
• Spartan Race from Wikipedia
• Sparta from Wikipedia
• Sparta (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Broken Brass Ensemble - Spartan, North Sea Jazz 2019, NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz, YouTube Video

Watch on YouTube

References