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Equity: Equity and Sims for the Common Man, Part III
Posted by johnG on Monday, July 17 @ 22:15:26 EDT (877 reads)
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by John Van Pelt

Simming Rules!

The simulator function in Maven, operated competently, is an improvement over the raw kibbitzer.


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Equity: Equity and Sims for the Common Man, Part II
Posted by johnG on Monday, July 17 @ 22:08:43 EDT (802 reads)
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by John Van Pelt

Maven and Equity

In order for a computer opponent to play at all strongly, it needed to be supplied with SOME codified version of an expert's amassed intuition. This is what Brian Sheppard did with Maven (and tweaked in successive versions).


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Equity: Equity and Sims for the Common Man, Part I
Posted by johnG on Monday, July 17 @ 22:05:28 EDT (804 reads)
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by John Van Pelt

What Is Equity?

Equity in Scrabble[TM] is a numerical measure of the 'value' of a tile, play, or sequence of plays.


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