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

[Brian Sheppard]

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-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer"
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:21 PM
To: computer-go at 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 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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