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Nicholas John (Nick) Pelling, (alias Orlando M Pilchard)
a British software engineer and computer games programmer ¹. 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 ².

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Games

Nick Pelling developed computer games for most major game platforms and home computers since the early 80s, best known as author of Arcadians for BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak! Frak!], originally developed for the same platform, published by his own 'Aardvark' software label in 1984 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 ⁴ ⁵. 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 ⁶.

Selected Publications

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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 ⁸ ⁹ » 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

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