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

[Don Dailey]

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 <sheppardco at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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