Gerd+Isenberg

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. || toc =Photos= =Publications=
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 * [[image:2001leidenIsenberg.JPG link="http://www.chessbase.de/events/events.asp?pid=114"]] ||~  || **Gerd Isenberg**,  (1955)
 * Gerd Isenberg, DOCCC 2001 ||~ ||^ ||
 * [[image:Gerd2006.jpg width="561" height="424"]] ||
 * WCCC 2006 excursion, view from [|Sacra di San Michele] to [|Susa Valley] and [|Cottian Alps] ||
 * [|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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