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. < [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > *To:* [email protected] > *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 <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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