Hi On the UKS mailing list David Sutton posted this message.. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-scrabble/message/37891 .. which suggested some ways in...
... One improvement I'd like to suggest: Ability to use partial or full knowledge of opponent's rack (obviously in a non-empty bag situation) and come up with...
... Sticking to Visual C++ and MFC would rule out a lot of potential contributors - my suggestion would be ANSI C, or perhaps portable C++ for the core, with a...
Regarding Sam's idea, another possible use for that ability is in conjunction with a module which attempted to model the opponent's rack based on the most...
The recent post regarding an open-source program reminded me of an idea that's been percolating for a while. There are several proprietary representations of...
... Hi Martin I don't have much experience of this Ruby approach .. can you tell me what the advantages would be over just having one large C++ app? Jim ...
... Development in ruby is a *lot* faster than it is in C++. It's higher level, with many useful abstractions and language constructs (most notably closures). ...
I have done a lot of work with XML, but I am too busy to spend a lot of time on this project. But I am able to review drafts, and I will promise support for...
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... Hooray for that! Any standard should have all the advantages of the format: <http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/alpha/comm_log.html> which was...
An open source project should be as inclusive as possible. Picking platform independent languages (like C/C++, Ruby, and XML) is a good first step towards...
I agree with all of that. Yes I would make sure any C++ was ANSI, I only mentioned Visual C++ because that is the IDE that I personally use and I would...
... Not exactly, but that belief is not without some justification. Maven's pre-endgame module used to show break-even results in computer-computer matchups,...
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BTW, this sounds like a great project. I sincerely hope that you move forward with it. You must understand that I am unable to assist in this project. For me...
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Brian, I was referring to my impression, which may only be of an early version of Maven, that the "optimal" rack heuristics for computer-against-computer play...
... What's the legal situation? Is it possible to distribute a Scrabble-playing program without being sued for real money by Mattel and/or Hasbro? I've...
... Who knows? There are a handful of wordgame projects out there that allow you to position the premium squares where you like, and that seem to be left ...
... rack was slightly lowered Not me. Maven has always been tuned by self-play. I do believe that there are humans who can play better against Maven than their...
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This project is a great idea. I've had dreams of starting the same project, but not the drive, so I'm grateful to Jim for starting the discussion. In my...
I agree that an extensive format is the way to go. I think that "log file interface" should be a module of the system. Decoupling the GUI and the game engine...
I love this idea! I've been wanting to add a bit of intellgence to the move engine for Crosswords (xwords.sourceforge.net -- already open-source, BTW) but...
Eric I am a huge fan of Crosswords and play for hours sometimes (long train journeys, boring meetings, etc.) I had no idea it was open source.. I am off to...
I am writing a word study program, similar in spirit to Lexpert. It is Free Software available under the GPL. I would like to be able to distribute word...
Some things I'd like to see in a modern crossword game program: The ability for the program to play itself and record the results The sim results to give +/-...
Is there a valid play finding engine (takes board, rack and dictionary and returns all valid plays and scores) out there that could be obtained as stand-alone...
If attachments work on this group, attached should be a diagram of the relationships between the modules as I see it at present. White arrows represent a...
Hi Graham, ... [snip] ... I have some new programs (both source and binaries) which you will probably want to add to your site: * -- An anagram generator....
I'm planning to develop this through stepwise refinement. Let's start with a high-level view and see if there are any major entities I'm missing. If you're...
... ftp to gtoal.com and log in as anonymous create a subdirectory for your files. upload the source files as ascii, and remember to select binary mode for the...
Hi Graham, I have uploaded the files to "/incoming/New Folder/" (I used IE to create the folder and I did not have permissions to change the name of the...
... I haven't seen any responses to these questions, but this being a word-game programmers list, surely *someone* reading this list has had to deal with them...
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