Stefan Geschwentner

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Stefan Geschwentner, a German computer scientist and software developer, who graduated in mathematics and computer science at University of Ulm. In 2013, he started to work on Stockfish, playing with extensions, in particular frustrating trials with the Botvinnik-Markoff extension , but soon became a primary member in the Stockfish community, and contributed in all areas of search, evaluation and testing, such as selectivity, move ordering, and considering pinned pieces in king safety to mention a few.

=Forum Posts=

2013

 * Re: Botvinnik-Markov...these guys.. by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, August 28, 2013
 * Removing extensions by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, August 31, 2013 » Extensions
 * Testing LMR conditions by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, October 06, 2013 » LMR
 * Candidate passers by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, October 14, 2013 » Candidates (Bitboards)
 * Singular extension by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, November 01, 2013 » Singular Extensions
 * Singular extension: exclusion key by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, November 24, 2013

2014

 * Followup moves by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, January 12, 2014 » Counter Moves History
 * Multicut by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, February 21, 2014 » Multi-Cut
 * Pinned pieces in king safety by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, March 28, 2014 » King Safety, Pin
 * Knight fork threats by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, November 17, 2014 » Knight Forks

2015 ...

 * Four game phases by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, February 20, 2017 » Tapered Eval
 * Smoothing stats by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, April 10, 2017
 * Cumulative effects for multiple threads? by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, April 08, 2018
 * Introduction of attack threat tables by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, June 20, 2018
 * Stat update measurements by Stefan Geschwentner, FishCooking, July 09, 2018
 * Change of maintainer by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, September 03, 2018

=External Links=
 * locutus2 (Stefan Geschwentner) · GitHub
 * Stefan Geschwentner über Künstliche Intelligenz und einer Aufforderung zum Duell von Google's KI by Armin Haas, code'n'ground AG, January 17, 2019 (German)

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