Spartan
[ SPARTAN-101 Diagram [1] 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 [2]. As a pure bitboard engine, Spartan applies Matt Taylor’s folding trick to scan bits [3], and Brian Kernighan’s way to count bits [4]. 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)) [5] [6] 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.
Board Representation
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Alpha-Beta
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Selectivity
- Move Ordering
Evaluation
- Material
- Tapered Eval
- Piece-Square Tables
- Mobility
- Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
- Connectivity
- Pawn Structure
- Passed Pawn
- King Safety
Misc
See also
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
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
References
- ↑ SPARTAN-101 (Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy) carrier module of STS-51-G, the 18th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery, June 17-24, 1985, NASA image, SPARTAN – Wikipedia.de (German), Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ New UCI engine: Spartan by CDaley11, OpenChess Forum, April 23, 2016
- ↑ Spartan/bitscan.h at master · christiandaley/Spartan · GitHub
- ↑ Spartan/bitscan.c at master · christiandaley/Spartan · GitHub
- ↑ partan/eval.h at master · christiandaley/Spartan · GitHub, #define DIST(sq1, sq2) ((int)sqrt(((…
- ↑ C sqrt() - C Standard Library
- ↑ Spartan/Readme.md at master · christiandaley/Spartan · GitHub
- ↑ Spartan Chess - Chess Variant Page