Niklas Fiekas

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Niklas Fiekas,

a German chess player and aficionado, open source software developer [1], and computer scientist affiliated with Clausthal University of Technology [2] . He is primary author of python-chess, a chess library written in Python featuring move generation and validation, PGN reading [3] and opening book reading.

Forum Posts#

2015 …#

• Why is there a PGN SetUp tag? by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, November 15, 2015
• Syzygy probing code: DTZ in some cursed endgames off by one? by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, December 06, 2015
• Suicide chess tablebases (stalemated player wins) by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, October 25, 2016 » Losing Chess, Syzygy Bases
• Disproving the existence of some magics by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, September 16, 2017 » Looking for Magics
• No bishop magics with fixed shift 8 by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, April 09, 2018

2020 …#

• Hashtable packing (e.g. to optimize magic bitboards) is strongly NP-complete by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, February 13, 2020 » Magic Bitboards [4]

External Links#

• niklasf (Niklas Fiekas) · GitHub
• niklasf/python-chess · GitHub
• backscattering.de
• Niklas Fiekas | Drupal.org [5]
• Niklas Fiekas (@NiklasFiekas) / Twitter
• Fiekas, Niklas FIDE Chess Profile

References#

1. ↑ Niklas Fiekas’s Open Source Report Card
2. ↑ Niklas Fiekas | Clausthal University of Technology - Academia.edu
3. ↑ Re: PGN to FEN (with Evaluation)? by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 29, 2014
4. ↑ Strong NP-completeness from Wikipedia
5. ↑ Drupal from Wikipedia

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