Niklas Fiekas

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

=Selected Publications=
 * Niklas Fiekas (2020). The Hashtable Packing Problem. (Draft)

=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

=External Links=
 * niklasf (Niklas Fiekas) · GitHub
 * niklasf/python-chess · GitHub
 * backscattering.de
 * Niklas Fiekas | Drupal.org
 * Niklas Fiekas (@NiklasFiekas) / Twitter
 * Fiekas, Niklas FIDE Chess Profile

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