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Fabian Fichter

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Heidelberg, Germany

Hi, I am a software developer as well as chess and chess variant enthusiast, and author of Fairy-Stockfish. My open source development mainly focuses on chess variant software, as well as chess and chess variant data analysis:

  • Fairy-Stockfish, a strong chess variant engine, which is used e.g. by lichess and pychess.
  • Libraries and ports based on Fairy-Stockfish for python, JS, and WASM for use in other chess variant projects, e.g., chess variant GUIs and websites, as well as all the other development, testing, and integration project landscape around Fairy-Stockfish.
  • Chess (variant) data analysis tools enabling more research and understanding of chess variants.

With your support you enable me to

  • spend more time on improving, extending, and maintaining Fairy-Stockfish.
  • develop and maintain integrations to support other chess variant projects.
  • do data analysis on chess and chess variants and write about it.

Current sponsors 1

@niklasf
Past sponsors 2
Private Sponsor
@yjf2002ghty

Featured work

  1. fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish

    chess variant engine supporting Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi, Makruk, S-Chess, Crazyhouse, Bughouse, and many more

    C++ 617
  2. fairy-stockfish/variant-nnue-pytorch

    chess variant NNUE training code for Fairy-Stockfish

    Python 28
  3. ianfab/chess-variant-stats

    Calculate game statistics for chess variants

    Python 16
  4. ianfab/chess-variant-puzzler

    Puzzle generator for chess variants

    Python 16
  5. ianfab/chess-analysis

    Evaluate quality of play metrics for chess

    Python 7
  6. ianfab/fairyground

    playground for Fairy-Stockfish in the browser

    CSS 22

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