There's a short piece in the new New Scientist journal (13 January)
entitled "Robot learns to play dirty". See:
http://tinyurl.com/yxw4uh
Part of the article says:
"Adding in this 'opponent modelling' greatly improved the program's
game, allowing it to beat Quackle, one of the best conventional
Scrabble programs, by five points on average."
Would the Quackle authors care to comment?
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