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Martin Fierz, a Swiss physicist, FIDE Master in chess, and computer chess and checkers programmer. Martin Fierz is professor of physics at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Windisch and CEO of naneos particle solutions, developing and building nanoparticle sensors. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from ETH Zurich, and was postdoc at the Cluster Research Group - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Martin Fierz is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine Muse , the Checkers engine Cake and the Checkers GUI CheckerBoard.

=Selected Publications=

2000 ...

 * Martin Fierz (2001). Ultrafast electron dynamics in gas-suspended nanoparticles. Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zurich
 * Martin Fierz (2001). Electronic Relaxation Time in Metallic Nanoparticles. Physics of Low Dimensional Systems, Springer
 * Martin Fierz, Murray Cash, Ed Gilbert (2002). The 2002 World Computer-Checkers Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
 * Martin Fierz, Leo Scherrer, Heinz Burtscher (2002). Real-time measurement of aerosol size distributions with an electrical diffusion battery. Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol. 33, No. 7
 * Martin Fierz, Ralf Kaegi, Heinz Burtscher (2007). Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of a Portable Electrostatic TEM Sampler. Aerosol Science and Technology, Vol. 41, No. 5
 * Martin Fierz, Silke Weimer, Heinz Burtscher (2009). Design and performance of an optimized electrical diffusion battery. Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol. 40, No. 2

2010 ...

 * Martin Fierz, Corey Houle, Peter Steigmeier, Heinz Burtscher (2011). Design, Calibration, and Field Performance of a Miniature Diffusion Size Classifier. Aerosol Science and Technology, Vol. 45, No. 1
 * Martin Fierz, Dominik Meier, Peter Steigmeier, Heinz Burtscher (2014). Aerosol Measurement by Induced Currents. Aerosol Science and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 4

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * singular extensions? by Martin Fierz, CCC, September 29, 2000 » Singular Extensions
 * muliti probcut by Martin Fierz, CCC, July 04, 2001 » Multi–ProbCut
 * MTD: an observation and a question by Martin Fierz, CCC, September 11, 2002 » MTD(f)
 * EGTB generation with 1 bit per position? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 25, 2003 » Endgame Tablebases, Endgame Bitbases
 * table-based SEE or "evaluation in rebel (hanging pieces)" by Martin Fierz, CCC, November 27, 2003 » Hanging Piece, Rebel, Static Exchange Evaluation
 * move ordering and node count by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 29, 2004 »Move Ordering
 * Muse! by Martin Fierz, CCC, August 08, 2004
 * multithreading questions by Martin Fierz, CCC, August 08, 2007 » Parallel Search, Thread

2016 ...
2018
 * Computer chess progress over say the last 20 years? by Martin Fierz, March 10, 2016
 * Computer chess progress over the last 20 years! by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 13, 2016
 * Checks in qsearch - must-have or optional? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 15, 2016 » Check, Checks in Quiescence Search
 * Computer Chess Progress: Stockfish 7 vs Ruffian 1.0.5 by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 17, 2016 » Stockfish, Ruffian
 * Extensions in the days of LMR? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 22, 2016 » Extensions, LMR
 * Futile attempts at futility pruning by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 27, 2016 » Futility Pruning, Reverse Futility Pruning
 * Hashing in Qsearch? by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 03, 2016 » Transposition Table, Quiescence Search
 * Muse 0.95 by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 10, 2016
 * Shifting alpha/beta on hash hit by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 14, 2016 » Search Instability, Transposition Table
 * Hashtable aging by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 25, 2016
 * MCTS beginner questions by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 25, 2018 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search
 * MCTS with minmax backup operator? by Martin Fierz, CCC, May 01, 2018
 * cutechess-cli? by Martin Fierz, CCC, May 09, 2018 » Cutechess-cli
 * Is cutechess-cli's rating interval 1 sigma or 2 sigma? by Martin Fierz, CCC, May 18, 2018

=External Links=
 * The Homepage of Martin Fierz
 * Martin's World >> Strategy Game Programming
 * Martin's World >> A brief history of computer checkers
 * Martin's World >> Chess
 * Martin's World >> Muse
 * Martin Fierz | LinkedIn
 * Fierz, Martin FIDE Chess Profile
 * Chess games of Martin Fierz from chessgames.com
 * SG Zürich - Teamcup » Jonathan Rosenthal

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