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

[Brian Sheppard]

I am sad that I am not allowed to post it online somewhere. Maybe after ICGA sells out their inventory!

-----Original Message-----
From: computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of David Fotland
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:05 PM
To: computer-go at dvandva.org
Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of Scrabble

I also enjoyed your thesis very much.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-
> bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:25 PM
> To: computer-go at dvandva.org
> 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: computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-
> bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of "Ingo Alth�fer"
> 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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