Computers and Games: 5th International Conference, CG 2006, Turin, Italy, May 29-31, 2006, Revised Papers: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4630

Computer Analysis of Chess Champions.- Automated Chess Tutor.- A New Heuristic Search Algorithm for Capturing Problems in Go.- An Open Boundary Safety-of-Territory Solver for the Game of Go.- Monte-Carlo Proof-Number Search for Computer Go.- Virtual Global Search: Application to 9×9 Go.- Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search.- Combinatorics of Go.- Abstracting Knowledge from Annotated Chinese-Chess Game Records.- Automatic Strategy Verification for Hex.- Feature Construction for Reinforcement Learning in Hearts.- A Skat Player Based on Monte-Carlo Simulation.- A Retrograde Approximation Algorithm for One-Player Can’t Stop.- Improving Depth-First PN-Search: 1?+?? Trick.- Search Versus Knowledge Revisited Again.- Counting the Number of Three-Player Partizan Cold Games.- LUMINES Strategies.- Computing Proper Equilibria of Zero-Sum Games.- Comparative Study of Approximate Strategies for Playing Sum Games Based on Subgame Types.- On the Symbolic Computation of the Hardest Configurations of the RUSH HOUR Game.- Cheat-Proof Serverless Network Games.- Monte-Carlo Methods in Pool Strategy Game Trees.- Optimization of a Billiard Player – Tactical Play.- Gender and Cultural Differences (If Any!): South African School Children and Computer Games.