Martin Fierz, a Swiss physicist, chess player [1] , chess and checkers programmer. Martin is research scientist at the University of Applied Sciences in Windisch [2], Switzerland, and CEO of naneos particle solutions, developing and building nanoparticle sensors [3]. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from ETH Zurich, and was postdoc at the Cluster Research Group - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Martin Fierz is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine Muse [4] , the Checkers engine Cake [5] and the Checkers GUI CheckerBoard [6] .
Martin Fierz [7]

Photos

Murray Cash [8] and Martin Fierz, Las Vegas, 2002 [9]

Selected Publications

• Martin Fierz, Murray Cash, Ed Gilbert (2002). The 2002 World Computer-Checkers Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3

Forum Posts

2000 ...

• singular extensions? by Martin Fierz, CCC, September 29, 2000 » Singular Extensions
• muliti probcut by Martin Fierz, CCC, July 04, 2001 » Multi–ProbCut
• MTD: an observation and a question by Martin Fierz, CCC, September 11, 2002 » MTD(f)
• EGTB generation with 1 bit per position? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 25, 2003 » Endgame Tablebases, Endgame Bitbases
• table-based SEE or "evaluation in rebel (hanging pieces)" by Martin Fierz, CCC, November 27, 2003 » Hanging Piece, Rebel, Static Exchange Evaluation
• move ordering and node count by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 29, 2004 »Move Ordering
• Muse! by Martin Fierz, CCC, August 08, 2004
• multithreading questions by Martin Fierz, CCC, August 08, 2007 » Parallel Search, Thread

2010 ...

• Computer chess progress over say the last 20 years? by Martin Fierz, March 10, 2016
• Computer chess progress over the last 20 years! by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 13, 2016
• Checks in qsearch - must-have or optional? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 15, 2016 » Check, Checks in Quiescence Search
• Computer Chess Progress: Stockfish 7 vs Ruffian 1.0.5 by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 17, 2016 » Stockfish, Ruffian
• Extensions in the days of LMR? by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 22, 2016 » Extensions, LMR
• Futile attempts at futility pruning by Martin Fierz, CCC, March 27, 2016 » Futility Pruning, Reverse Futility Pruning
• Hashing in Qsearch? by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 03, 2016 » Transposition Table, Quiescence Search
• Muse 0.95 by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 10, 2016
• Shifting alpha/beta on hash hit by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 14, 2016 » Search Instability, Transposition Table
• Hashtable aging by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 25, 2016
• MCTS beginner questions by Martin Fierz, CCC, April 25, 2018 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search

External Links

• The Homepage of Martin Fierz
  Strategy Game Programming by Martin Fierz
  A brief history of computer checkers by Martin Fierz
• Martin Fierz | LinkedIn
• Martin Fierz - naneos particle solutions GmbH
• FHNW - Dr. Martin Fierz - Tätigkeiten und Funktion in Forschung, Dienstleitung und Lehre - Institut für Aerosol- und Sensortechnik - Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (German)
• SG Zürich - Teamcup » Jonathan Rosenthal

References

1. ^ Chess games of Martin Fierz from chessgames.com
2. ^ FHNW - Dr. Martin Fierz - Tätigkeiten und Funktion in Forschung, Dienstleitung und Lehre - Institut für Aerosol- und Sensortechnik - Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (German)
3. ^ Martin Fierz - naneos particle solutions GmbH
4. ^ Martin's World, Programming - Muse
5. ^ Cake
6. ^ CheckerBoard
7. ^ Martin Fierz | LinkedIn
8. ^ Nemesis wins World Computer Checkers Championship by Murray Cash
9. ^ Nemesis wins World Computer Checkers Championship by Martin Fierz
10. ^ Martin's World, Physics - Publication

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