Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory! -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of David Fotland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Alth�fer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 � Special offer (now): 15 � For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
I went ahead and ordered a copy, it is less than $1.50 Don On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Brian Sheppard sheppar...@aol.com wrote: I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory! -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of David Fotland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Alth�fer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 � Special offer (now): 15 � For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
Don, How did you order? I just clicked on the paper and was sent through a maze of crappy PayPal screens. The description and payment amounts were blank. And when I tried to fill them out, it wants to charge me US $20.00. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Jim From: Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com To: computer-go@dvandva.org Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 10:20:56 AM Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I went ahead and ordered a copy, it is less than $1.50 Don On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Brian Sheppard sheppar...@aol.com wrote: I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory! -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of David Fotland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Alth�fer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 � Special offer (now): 15 � For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
[Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
I typed: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Sheppard (with quotes as above) in Google scholar Followed the links from the first URL until http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?did=10724 then file 2, which is: http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7134 and was able to download a .pdf To my surprise a scanned (not very normal for a 2002 document) 16.7 Mb with the complete 281 pages. I did not find the time to read it yet, but it is in my to do list. Jacques. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
I don't remember except that it was from the ICGA web site. I am pretty interested in this because I have written scrabble programs for fun. I wrote one in perl just to prove to someone that perl was fast enough (this was more than a decade ago) and it would find the best play in about 5 seconds on a laptop. I also know that modern high performance scabble programs use some kind of monte carlo algorithm. Don On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. jim_oflaherty...@yahoo.com wrote: Don, How did you order? I just clicked on the paper and was sent through a maze of crappy PayPal screens. The description and payment amounts were blank. And when I tried to fill them out, it wants to charge me US $20.00. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Jim -- *From:* Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com *To:* computer-go@dvandva.org *Sent:* Thu, January 6, 2011 10:20:56 AM *Subject:* Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I went ahead and ordered a copy, it is less than $1.50 Don On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Brian Sheppard sheppar...@aol.comwrote: I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory! -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of David Fotland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Alth�fer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 � Special offer (now): 15 � For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
Cool! I will get a copy myself, because I have only MS Word files. The PDF would be easier in many respects. Thanks -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Jacques Basaldúa Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:13 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I typed: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Sheppard (with quotes as above) in Google scholar Followed the links from the first URL until http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?did=10724 then file 2, which is: http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7134 and was able to download a .pdf To my surprise a scanned (not very normal for a 2002 document) 16.7 Mb with the complete 281 pages. I did not find the time to read it yet, but it is in my to do list. Jacques. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Alth�fer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 � Special offer (now): 15 � For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble
This is very good news indeed for the multitude who have been holding off reading my thesis until the price came down... And I am very glad that Ingo found it useful. :-) Brian -Original Message- From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Althöfer Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM To: computer-go@dvandva.org Subject: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble Hello, on the website www.icga.org I just found the item Books for sale at ICGA (special offer) in the list on the left. In this books list there are several titles with reduced price. I would like to promote one of them, from the sublist Ph.D. Theses, namely Brian Sheppard: Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble Normal (old price): 25 € Special offer (now): 15 € For ordering information, contact i...@icga.org It is a thesis from 2002 (University of Maastricht). I bought it in that year, and for me it was a high calibre eye opener. It is very smooth to read, and contains a lot of interesting stuff, even for those people who are not especially engaged in computer Scrabble. The core part is Chapter 10, on simulations (called Monte Carlo runs in other fields). I like especially Section 10.5 on the historical development (hand simulations by Ron Tiekert in the 1980's). Without this book I would likely not have started to use pure Monte Carlo in my programs for computer aided game inventing in 2004. Ingo. -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
