... Perhaps most valuable would be a list of words which never sim best as opening plays, or never sim within two points of best. If you see one and you're...
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John O'Laughlin
johnny5113
Apr 3, 2002 3:30 am
... This is entirely because of the lack of endgame. There's no endgame whatsoever, not even one like ACBot or PioBot play. Our program doesn't yet know when...
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sheppardco@...
Apr 3, 2002 3:30 am
... You are correct that there are fewer options, but Steven is correct that the choices are closer. The first turn often offers choices such as COZ at 8f, 8g ...
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John O'Laughlin
johnny5113
Apr 3, 2002 3:32 am
Oops, you were responding to Patrick, not Brian. Perhaps the same applies to him. Our average plays are even worse, over 26. John ... ADVERTISEMENT...
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brian
ringtheorist
Apr 3, 2002 3:55 am
... Maven is probably much smarter in the endgame. I'm guessing this would at least reduce the number of turns one or two. I know that my game has nothing in...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
Apr 3, 2002 4:55 am
I think Brian's comment (a.o.t. Brian's) about lexicons explains part of the difference: my tests used OSPD1 (94249 words), which I can easily imagine would...
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John Babina
john@...
Apr 3, 2002 4:57 am
... In regards to these two items above -- would I be wrong in thinking that a program that plays the absolute best game of Scrabble possible (IE: maximizes...
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sheppardco@...
Apr 3, 2002 5:17 am
... Well, that depends. When I implemented Maven's endgame search engine I found that the games were *longer*. This maybe a surprise, but it is quite logical. ...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
Apr 3, 2002 5:22 am
I did something vaguely like this a long time ago, involving two different types of players: those who favour short words and those who favour long words. If...
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sheppardco@...
Apr 3, 2002 5:29 am
... averages than less optimized games? It is possible for scores to be lower as the program gets better. It hasn't happened, AFAIK. ... It is how our current...
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brian
ringtheorist
Apr 3, 2002 5:46 am
... I think the general principle at work is that the "long" player simply gets to play more tiles than the "short" player when they play each other. Of...
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John Babina
john@...
Apr 3, 2002 6:16 am
From: "Patrick Niesink" <patrick.niesink@...> ... Standard play takes into account score + rack leave -- usually in the end game the rack leave...
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Alan Frank
halibutpt
Apr 7, 2002 2:45 am
There are three factors that affect the time needed to do a simulation: 1) The total number of plays in the position. As Brian points out, this is not a...
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Alan Frank
halibutpt
Apr 7, 2002 11:17 pm
I have decided that the best route to a better job (for me right now) involves improving my Java skills and in particular doing this in a public way. So I am...
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heart_focus
Apr 13, 2002 1:32 am
Hi all, I have AnagramGenius2000(8) which I found out about here. I love the program and am wondering how can I describe to my friends in simple language that...
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William Tunstall-Pedoe
william@...
Apr 13, 2002 7:22 am
In message <a981rh+ikah@eGroups.com>, heart_focus <heart_focus@...> writes ... It is just called Anagram Genius. I am its author. ... That's good...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
Apr 13, 2002 5:13 pm
I have to take exception with the idea that anagrams actually "mean" something. After all, my name anagrams to "Kinkiest in crap". 8*) Technically, I believe...
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heart_focus
Apr 14, 2002 7:12 am
Hello William (nice to hear from you again!) and Patrick; thanks for ... just an illusion caused by the brain's ability to find conceptual links between things...
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heart_focus
Apr 14, 2002 7:20 am
I forgot to say that I've gotten some friends interested in buying your program and they will probably say they heard about it on the linda-goodman.com site....
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heart_focus
Apr 14, 2002 8:01 am
Hi Patrick, ... Because when a really good one comes up, you pay more attention to it.<< Then why, do the really good ones usually come up near the top of the ...
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William Tunstall-Pedoe
william@...
Apr 14, 2002 6:19 pm
In message <a9ba54+9erj@eGroups.com>, heart_focus <heart_focus@...> writes ... [...] ... [...] I see. I was confused by your original reference to...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
May 2, 2002 2:30 am
FYI: http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/ if they knock down the Mickey Mouse extension, Scrabble goes with it as they're the same age and...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
May 2, 2002 3:58 am
Alfred Butts died in 1993, so even if the Sonny Bono act is repealed it will mean the Scrabble copyright expires in about 41 years from now. Of course, my...
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John Babina
john@...
May 8, 2002 3:53 pm
I am a believer in sims in that I think they give a very good estimation of the best move... However, I have one question. From what I understand about how...
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Eric Nelson
ou1a
May 8, 2002 8:49 pm
Hello, I'm new to this list and new to this community, and my programming background is limited to the HTML-ColdFusion-JavaScript-SQL area, so please forgive ...
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Nick Ball
nicholasmart...
May 10, 2002 12:50 pm
Hi There are certainly ASCII words lists out there which go up to longer lengths, although I haven't seen one which lists *all* allowable words in...
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AmazingMazeMan@...
May 10, 2002 11:45 pm
... I've got several files on my computers, including some that are supposed to be OSPD3 and OWL (or whatever the letters are) and SOWPODS, but I've never ...
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Nick Ball
nicholasmart...
May 15, 2002 11:13 am
Hi Following the clabbers thread on uk-scrabble, is there a computer opponent on the net yet? I remember Mark Watkins' wordgame magazine had one of the...
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Chris Long
vertex_operator
May 15, 2002 10:23 pm
Is a copy of the words from this dictionary available on the Internet somewhere? I know it exists, but the last time I tried to obtain a copy of it (maybe 10...
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Tkcom
May 22, 2002 5:57 pm
Hi I decide to do a stand-alone Scrabble game for my programming class using Visual Basic. Anyone have any suggesting of how to start? And how could I set up a...
