Gerd Isenberg

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Gerd Isenberg, (1955) a German computer scientist, born, raised and living in Hattingen, and author of the chess programs IsiChess and HansDamf. He was radio and television engineer and studied CS at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund. His career as a chess programmer started rather late, when he was already in the mid thirties - inspired by David Levy's Computer Chess Compendium, specially the article about Chess 4.5. After a short and venturesome career as professional chess programmer from 1994 to 1997, Gerd Isenberg is employed application developer for the Oil- and Gas-Industry. Gerd has been an organizer here at the wiki, main focus Bitboards, Bit-Twiddling, History of computer chess programming and everything else.

=Photos= =Publications=
 * Mehda Rolvering, Gerd Isenberg (1986). Firmware und Softwaretreiber für einen Festplattenspeicher. Diploma thesis, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, advisor Rolf Swik (German)
 * Gerd Isenberg (2008). Efficient Generation of Sliding Piece Attacks. Summary of selected attack generation techniques, a small talk at Workshop Chess and Mathematics, Dresden, November 22, 2008

=Forum Posts=
 * Static Mate Detection by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, January 22, 2002 » Mate at a Glance
 * unique distance relationship by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, August 15, 2002 » Distance, Manhattan-Distance
 * WCCC04 acknowledgements by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, July 16, 2004 » WCCC 2004
 * rotated bitboards obsolete? by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, February 26, 2006 » line-wise Magic Bitboards

=External Links=
 * Gerd Isenberg's ICGA Tournaments
 * Isenberg - Wikipedia

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