Computers and Games

Efficient Control of Selective Simulations.- Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games.- Rediscovering *-Minimax Search.- *-Minimax Performance in Backgammon.- Associating Shallow and Selective Global Tree Search with Monte Carlo for 9 x 9 Go.- Learning to Estimate Potential Territory in the Game of Go.- An Improved Safety Solver for Computer Go.- Searching for Compound Goals Using Relevancy Zones in the Game of Go.- Rule-Tolerant Verification Algorithms for Completeness of Chinese-Chess Endgame Databases.- An External-Memory Retrograde Analysis Algorithm.- Generating an Opening Book for Amazons.- Building a World-Champion Arimaa Program.- Blockage Detection in Pawn Endings.- Dao: A Benchmark Game.- Incremental Transpositions.- Kayles on the Way to the Stars.- Searching over Metapositions in Kriegspiel.- The Relative History Heuristic.- Locally Informed Global Search for Sums of Combinatorial Games.- Current Challenges in Multi-player Game Search.- Preventing Look-Ahead Cheating with Active Objects.- Strategic Interactions in the TAC 2003 Supply Chain Tournament.