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Niklas Fiekas

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Germany

Hi there!

I am a PhD student working on multi-agent systems, and regular contributor to lichess.org.

In chess programming, I enjoy the variety. There's everything from low-level bit fiddling, highly specialized databases, parsers and algorithms, to web servers and snappy user interfaces (and a community happy to use all of these).

With your sponsorship I'll be able to

  • spend more time contributing to and maintaining free/libre open source software ❤️
  • pay infrastructure for my software projects 🔧
  • expand amateur research into the limits of magic bitboards in chess engines 🔬

For projects tailored specifically for lichess.org (fishnet, lila-*), consider donating directly to lichess.org.

Current sponsors 2

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@marcusbuffett
Past sponsors 4
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Featured work

  1. niklasf/python-chess

    A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine c…

    Python 2,476
  2. niklasf/shakmaty

    A Rust library for chess and chess variant rules and operations

    Rust 218
  3. niklasf/syzygy-tables.info

    User interface and public API for probing Syzygy endgame tablebases

    Python 64
  4. niklasf/magics

    Finding magic factors for bitboard based move generation

    C 12
  5. niklasf/crev-proofs

    Personal crev proof repository

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