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Nick Pelling [1] Nicholas John (Nick) Pelling, (alias Orlando M Pilchard)

a British software engineer and computer games programmer [2]. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics and philosophy from University of Manchester in 1986, and a MBA in strategic management, with a thesis on knowledge and ideology in 2004 [3].

Chess#

As well-versed practiced club chess player, Nick Pelling published the eBook Chess Superminiatures with over 100 super-short chess games all under ten moves, and plenty of carefully-graded interactive puzzles throughout [5] [6]. Somewhat longer ago, along with Arthur Norman, Nick Pelling authored Acornsoft Chess - as the name suggests published by Acornsoft in 1982 and 1983 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron as well. More recently, Nick Pelling contributes to the Stockfish project [7].

Selected Publications#

[8]

• Nick Pelling (2003). Justified True Belief: Three Words, Three Lies? Kingston University Business School, Surrey, UK
• Nick Pelling (2004). The Network Is The Knowledge: Ideology & Strategy in Mintzberg’s Ten Schools. MBA dissertation, Kingston University Business School, Surrey, UK
• Nick Pelling (2006). The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript. Compelling Press
• Nick Pelling (2013). Chess Superminiatures. eBook, Kindle edition, Amazon

Forum Posts#

2016 …#

• What part of SF’s code does it spend most time executing? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, June 17, 2016  » Stockfish
• Four-way evaluation trick? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, September 07, 2018 » Tapered Eval
• Porting Stockfish to GCN on APUs…? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, November 18, 2018 [9] [10] » AMD
• SPSA and search.cpp? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, January 06, 2019 » SPSA
• What emergent metric is Leela using to win games with? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, February 24, 2019
• Has *constriction* been tried as a static analysis feature? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, May 26, 2019
• Statistically testing new metrics? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, June 01, 2019
• Help needed testing vectorized Stockfish pawns.cpp… by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, September 23, 2019

2020 …#

• Coordinated bishop and pawn static eval idea… by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, March 20, 2020
• Shouldn’t positional attributes drive SF’s NNUE input features (rather than king position)? by Nick Pelling, FishCooking, January 10, 2021 » Stockfish NNUE

External Links#

• Nick Pelling’s Home Page!

Fast multiplication on the Game Boy! » Z80

• Nick Pelling from Wikipedia
• Cipher Mysteries blog by Nick Pelling
• Nick Pelling | LinkedIn
• Nick Pelling (@nickpelling) | Twitter
• Nick Pelling Video Game Credits and Biography MobyGames
• Interview With Nick Pelling, AKA Orlando M Pilchard - The BBC Games Archive (2006)
• Nicholas J Pelling chess games - 365Chess.com

References#

1. ↑ Nick Pelling (@nickpelling) | Twitter
2. ↑ Nick Pelling | LinkedIn
3. ↑ Nick Pelling (2004). The Network Is The Knowledge: Ideology & Strategy in Mintzberg’s Ten Schools. MBA dissertation, Kingston University Business School, Surrey, UK
4. ↑ Nick Pelling from Wikipedia - Ludography
5. ↑ Surbiton Chess Club - Chess Superminiatures
6. ↑ Nick Pelling (2013). Chess Superminiatures. eBook, Kindle edition, Amazon
7. ↑ Stockfish/AUTHORS
8. ↑ Nick Pelling’s Home Page!
9. ↑ Graphics Core Next from Wikipedia
10. ↑ AMD Accelerated Processing Unit from Wikipedia

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