By:	Jouni Miettunen (jon@stekt.oulu.fi)
Date:	7 February 1995

Author:	David N.L. Levy (Editor)
Title:	Computer Games II
Pages:	547
Year:	1988
ISBN:	0-387-96609-9
	0-540-96609-9
Publ:	Springer-Verlag		(1988 address, may have changed)
	175 Fifth Avenue
	New York
	New York 10010
	USA

This is a collection of magazine articles from various sources between
1959 and 1984 edited and collected by an International Chess Master and
President of a strategy game company David Levy. The articles are mostly
research reports, (master's) thesis' and technical analysis of some
interesting parts of the selected game. This is not a beginner's guide.

The book collects the hard to find articles into one handy reference. If
you are sturdy, you might find all these by wading through decades of
Communications of ACM, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Journal et al. but few people would have stamina to do it or
recognize the good stuff - even if they had access to all the magazines.

I'd like to stress the information is not outdated, even though most
articles are from 70's and early 80's, on the contrary. The material
covers the basics of computer strategy game programming using familiar
games to demonstrate the methods of knowledge-based systems, learning
algorithms, tree searches, pattern recognition etc. This will provide
you a solid foundation, where to start developing your own game logic.
You will not only avoid reinventing the wheel(s), but will gain also a
"wealth of interesting and useful material".

If you share any interest into strategy game programming or want to know
how computers play games, you want this book. The problem might be
finding it, unfortunately. I wish there was more books like this.

This volume covers the-name-of-the-game (number of articles):

Bridge (4), Chemin-de-Fer (1), Dama (1), Dominoes (2), Go (12), Go-Moku
(4), Halma (1), Hearts (1), Othello (1), Poker (3), Push-Over (1) and
Qubic (1) followed by an extensive 31 page bibliography.

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