Stephane Nicolet
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Stéphane Nicolet [1]
Stéphane Nicolet,
a French world-class Othello player, two times vice-world champion in 1996 and 2007 [2],
computer scientist, teacher and researcher affiliated with University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas [3], and computer Othello and chess programmer.
He is primary author of the Othello program Cassio for Macintosh [4].
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
Stockfish
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
