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

[Don Dailey]

I don't remember except that it was from the ICGA web site.

I am pretty interested in this because I have written scrabble programs for
fun.   I wrote one in perl just to prove to someone that perl was fast
enough (this was more than a decade ago) and it would find the best play in
about 5 seconds on a laptop.

I also know that modern high performance scabble programs use some kind of
monte carlo algorithm.

Don


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. <
jim_oflaherty_jr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Don,
>
> How did you order? I just clicked on the paper and was sent through a maze
> of crappy PayPal screens. The description and payment amounts were blank.
> And when I tried to fill them out, it wants to charge me US $20.00. I am not
> sure what I am doing wrong.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Don Dailey <dailey.don at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* computer-go at dvandva.org
> *Sent:* Thu, January 6, 2011 10:20:56 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Computer-go] Special Offer: Towards perfect play of
> Scrabble
>
> 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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