| Article ID: | iaor1990201 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 9 |
| End Page Number: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1990 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Smith David K., Maliphant Sarah A. |
| Keywords: | programming: dynamic, stochastic processes |
Illustrations of the principles of operational research from sports have been widely used in teaching because of the familiarity of the ideas and rules of the games to students. In this paper, a popular board game is used as a means of developing some concepts of sequential decision-making, leading to useful ideas of strategy and objectives.