I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Fotland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble I also enjoyed your thesis very much. David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM > To: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Ingo Alth�fer" > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 [email protected] > > > 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 > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
