Niklas Fiekas
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.
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 [4]
