Stephane Nicolet

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Stéphane Nicolet, a French world-class Othello player, two times vice-world champion in 1996 and 2007 , computer scientist, teacher and researcher affiliated with University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and computer Othello and chess programmer. He is primary author of the Othello program Cassio for Macintosh. In 2014, Stéphane Nicolet started to work on Stockfish, and became a primary member of the Stockfish community, contributing in all areas with focus on evaluation, tuning and testing.

=Forum Posts=

2014

 * An idea for search.cpp : generalize advanced_pawn_push by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, January 23, 2014
 * Something strange in pawns.cpp by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, March 19, 2014
 * Help needed : SPSA session by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, March 25, 2014 » SPSA
 * Re: SIMD vector arithmetic by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, April 05, 2014
 * Hanging pieces patch applied by Marco Costalba, FishCooking, April 30, 2014 » Hanging Piece

2015

 * From midgame to endgame: help needed by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, September 17, 2015 » Game Phases
 * Komodo, Lazy SMP, and the like :-) by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, September 30, 2015 » Komodo, Lazy SMP
 * Gull's endgame knowledge by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, October 16, 2015 » Gull, Rook Endgame

2016

 * How much would you be ready to give away for a change of ST style ? by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, June 28, 2016
 * Two ideas for pawn patches by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, July 28, 2016 » Pawn Rams (Bitboards)
 * A Question about the null move trick by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, August 26, 2016
 * Illegal moves in SEE by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, September 22, 2016 » SEE - The Swap Algorithm
 * Github workflow for Stockfish by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, November 19, 2016
 * Some questions about backward pawns by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, November 20, 2016 » Backward Pawn

2017

 * Some data about LazySMP by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, April 08, 2017 » Lazy SMP
 * A branch to test the Monte Carlo algorithm in Stockfish by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, December 06, 2017 » Stockfish, AlphaZero, MCTS

2018

 * Contributors in the last two years by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, January 30, 2018
 * Searching with pessimistic and optimistic values by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, February 03, 2018
 * How does Komodo's imbalance evaluation work? by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, February 17, 2018 » Komodo
 * About speed-up measurements by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, February 25, 2018
 * Draw rate by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, March 07, 2018 » Draw
 * Tuning floats by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, April 12, 2018 » Automated Tuning
 * Discussion of the cycle detection patch by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, May 17, 2018
 * Change of maintainer by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, September 03, 2018
 * How to improve SF rook evaluation? by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, October 29, 2018

2019

 * TCEC Season 16 by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, August 23, 2019 » TCEC Season 16
 * Congratulations to the new official-stockfish owner, Stéphane Nicolet !! by asmideus, FishCooking, October 21, 2019

2020

 * Stockfish 11 by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, January 18, 2020
 * Stockfish 11 by Stephane Nicolet, CCC, January 18, 2020
 * The Maintainers They Are a-Changin' by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, January 23, 2020
 * Stepping down by Stephane Nicolet, FishCooking, June 23, 2021

=External Links=
 * Stephane Nicolet | LinkedIn
 * C++ – Magistère Banque-Finance | Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II

Stockfish

 * snicolet (Stéphane Nicolet) · GitHub
 * Creating my first test by Stephane Nicolet

Othello

 * Ratings :: World Othello Federation - NICOLET Stephane (France)
 * Stéphane Nicolet, champion d’Othello Reversi et auteur du meilleur programme Macintosh – Objets connectés et high tech pour la maison, April 19, 2011
 * IDF 5 : Stéphane Nicolet remporte le premier tournoi XOT parisien | Fédération Française d'Othello by Marc Tastet, June 18, 2017
 * Stéphane Nicolet remporte le préqualificatif de Paris | Fédération Française d'Othello by Marc Tastet, February 07, 2019

Cassio

 * Cassio - Play Othello on Macintosh
 * The Othello Engine Protocol

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