[Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble

["Ingo Althöfer"]

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 info at 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.

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