Chispa

a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine by Federico Andrés Corigliano, written in C++. Its development started in mid 2002, first released in January 2003 as pure WinBoard engine written in C, rewritten to C++ in 2004. Chispa uses the common negamax PVS alpha-beta with a two-level transposition table, null-move pruning with R = 2, static exchange evaluation, opening book, is able to probe Nalimov Tablebases, and was one of the first engines to play Chess960. Chispa is Arena partner engine. || toc =See also=
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=Forum Posts=

2003
> [|I use this in Chispa] by Federico Corigliano, CCC, December 13, 2003
 * [|New WB Engine: Chispa 1.0 (ARG)] by Ed Seid, Winboard Forum, January 04, 2003
 * [|I send to Ed the new Chispa 1.54] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, January 18, 2003
 * [|Chispa 2.0 needs 2-3 betatesters] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, March 03, 2003
 * [|Chispa 2.1 is available] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, March 09, 2003
 * [|Chispa 3.0 beta 1 is available] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, March 31, 2003
 * [|Chispa 3.0 beta 5 is available] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, April 18, 2003
 * [|Chispa news] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, August 18, 2003
 * [|Post Chispa questions here] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, September 06, 2003
 * [|Chispa v3.93 released] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, September 14, 2003
 * [|Chispa v3.95 released] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, September 26, 2003
 * [|Chispa v3.98d released] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, November 22, 2003
 * [|Nifty little feature in Chispa] by Geoff, CCC, December 13, 2003

2004

 * [|Today is Chispa's First Birthday] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, January 04, 2004
 * [|I really need your help testing Chispa] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, January 10, 2004
 * [|Chispa 4.0 Pre-Release 1 is ready] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, September 25, 2004
 * [|Chispa 4.0 released] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, December 13, 2004

2005 ...

 * [|Chispa impressions and problems] by Peter Berger, Winboard Forum, January 02, 2005
 * [|Chispa 4.0.3 for Linux static available] by Federico Corigliano, Winboard Forum, February 12, 2005
 * [|Question about obtaining Chispa] by James I, CCC, March 04, 2013

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Chispa Chess Engine]
 * [|Index of /fedecorigliano/ajedrez/chispa]
 * [|Arena Chess GUI 3.5 - Chispa]
 * [|Chispa] from WBEC Ridderkerk
 * [|Chispa 4.0.3] in CCRL 40/4
 * [|Chispa 4.0.3] in CCRL 40/40
 * [|Chispa 4.0.3] in KCEC

Misc

 * [|chispa - Wiktionary]
 * [|Descarga electrostática - Wikipedia.es] (Spanish)

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