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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Niklas Fiekas'''
'''Niklas Fiekas''',<br/>a German chess player and aficionado, open source software developer <ref>[https://osrc.dfm.io/niklasf/ Niklas Fiekas's Open Source Report Card]</ref> , and computer scientist affiliated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausthal_University_of_Technology Clausthal University of Technology] <ref>[http://tu-clausthal.academia.edu/NiklasFiekas Niklas Fiekas | Clausthal University of Technology - Academia.edu]</ref> . He is primary author of [[python-chess]], a chess library written in [[Python]] featuring [[Move Generation|move generation]] and validation, [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]] reading <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54779&start=4 Re: PGN to FEN (with Evaluation)?] by [[Matthew Lai]], [[CCC]], December 29, 2014</ref> and [[Opening Book|opening book]] reading. =Selected Publications=* [[Niklas Fiekas]] ('''2020'''). ''[https://backscattering.de/chess/hashtable-packing/ The Hashtable Packing Problem]''. (Draft)
=Forum Posts=
==2015 ...==* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58262 Why is there a PGN SetUp tag?]] by Niklas Fiekas, [[CCC]], November 15, 2015* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58488 Syzygy probing code: DTZ in some cursed endgames off by one?]] by Niklas Fiekas, [[CCC]], December 06, 2015* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61832 Suicide chess tablebases (stalemated player wins)]] by Niklas Fiekas, [[CCC]], October 25, 2016 » [[Losing Chess]], [[Syzygy Bases]]* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65187 Disproving the existence of some magics]] by Niklas Fiekas, [[CCC]], September 16, 2017 » [[Looking for Magics]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67051 No bishop magics with fixed shift 8] by Niklas Fiekas, [[CCC]], April 09, 2018
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73071 Hashtable packing (e.g. to optimize magic bitboards) is strongly NP-complete] by [[Niklas Fiekas]], [[CCC]], February 13, 2020 » [[Magic Bitboards]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_NP-completeness Strong NP-completeness from Wikipedia]</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/niklasf niklasf (Niklas Fiekas) · GitHub]
* [https://github.com/niklasf/python-chess niklasf/python-chess · GitHub]
* [https://githubbackscattering.comde/niklasf/libchess niklasf/libchess · GitHub]* [https://plusbackscattering.google.com/110842961576479554715/posts Niklas Fiekas – Google+de]
* [https://www.drupal.org/user/1089248 Niklas Fiekas | Drupal.org] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal Drupal from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [https://osrctwitter.dfmcom/niklasfiekas?lang=de Niklas Fiekas (@NiklasFiekas) / Twitter]* [http://ratings.io/niklasffide.com/ card.phtml?event=16215338 Fiekas, Niklas Fiekas's Open Source Report CardFIDE Chess Profile]
=References=
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