The structure of games

Computer Game Playing has been an active area of research since Samuel’s first Checkers player (Samuel 1959). Recently interest beyond the classic games of Chess and Checkers has led to competitions such as the General Game Playing competition, in which players have no beforehand knowledge of the games they are to play, and the Computer Poker Competition which force players to reason about imperfect information under conditions of uncertainty. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the area of General Game Playing both specifically and generally. On the specific side, we describe the design and implementation of our General Game Playing system OGRE. This system includes an innovative method for feature extraction that helped it to achieve second and fourth place in two international General Game Playing competitions. On the more general side, we also introduce the Regular Game Language, which goes beyond current works to provide support for both stochastic and imperfect information games as well as the more traditional games.

The Structure of Games

Computer Game Playing has been an active area of research since Samuel’s first Checkers player (Samuel 1959). Recently interest beyond the classic games of Chess and Checkers has led to competitions such as the General Game Playing competition, in which players have no beforehand knowledge of the games they are to play, and the Computer Poker Competition which force players to reason about imperfect information under conditions of uncertainty. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the area of General Game Playing both specifically and generally. On the specific side, we describe the design and implementation of our General Game Playing system OGRE. This system includes an innovative method for feature extraction that helped it to achieve second and fourth place in two international General Game Playing competitions. On the more general side, we also introduce the Regular Game Language, which goes beyond current works to provide support for both stochastic and imperfect information games as well as the more traditional games.

Smoking during pregnancy by duration of residence among immigrants in Sweden 1991-2012 : A study on health inequalities

This study revisits the effect of duration by residence in relation to smoking during pregnancy. It contributes to the literature by incorporating a health inequity perspective, and discusses whether immigrants tend to converge with Swedish women’s smoking. The study is based on Swedish Medical Birth Register and includes 1 1864 52 pregnancies between 1991 and 2012. Logistic regression was performed to attain crude and adjusted Odds Ratios and 95 % confidence intervals. Immigrants’ are divided by categorizing countries of origin depending on levels of Human Development (IHDI). Overall immigrant women show low levels of smoking during pregnancy when they arrive to Sweden, by duration of residence levels of smoking increase and converge with smoking patterns of Swedish women. I found that there are differences in smoking patterns depending on IHDI of the country. Immigrant women of higher categories of IHDI show higher levels of smoking although the increase of smoking is higher among immigrant women from categories of lower IHDI. However, immigrant women’s smoking during pregnancy is affected by duration of residence, and the increased smoking is associated with health inequalities related to their country of origins IHDI, and by socioeconomic inequalities in Sweden. 

Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Körpers und Geistes : für die Jugend, ihre Erzieher und alle Freunde unschuldiger Jugendfreuden /

Includes tables.

Schaakblad.

Mode of access: Internet.

Traité du jeu des échecs : enseignement des deb́uts étude des fins de parties méthode claire et facile a l'usage de tous les amateurs /

Mode of access: Internet.

Il nobilissimo et antiqvissimo givoco Pythagoreo nominato rythmomachia cioe battablia de consonantie de nvmeri, ritrouato per vtilità & solazzo delli stidiosi, et al presente in lingua volgare in modo di paraphrasi composto.

Classified for chess.

La scacheide ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Kitāb ʻajāyib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr /

Title on spine: Historia Tamerlanis.

Die Abteilung der Spiele im Spiegel der mandschu-Sprache.

Classified for chess; pt. 3, p. [135]

Hoyle's games improved : being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. ... : in which are also contained the method of betting at those games upon equal, or advantageous terms : including the laws of the several games...

Classified for chess; Introduction to the game of chess, p. 156-171.

A short treatise on the game of whist : containing the laws of the game and also some rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them attain to the playing it well ... /

In folder.

Het schaakspel : bevattende eene duidelijke en klare voorstelling van de gezamentlijke regelen van dit spel... /

T.-p. wanting.

The Amplifier - v. 11, no. 4

In this issue...Montana Power Company, US Coast Guard, Alumni Dinner, Vegas Club, Chess Club, Theta Tau, Butte Civic Choral Society, Sacred Heart Grade School