World-championship-caliber Scrabble

World-championship-caliber Scrabble

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Article ID: iaor20032938
Country: United States
Volume: 134
Issue: 1/2
Start Page Number: 241
End Page Number: 275
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Journal: Artificial Intelligence
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Keywords: artificial intelligence, optimization
Abstract:

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, simulations of likely game scenarios, and the B* algorithm to produce a world-championship-caliber Scrabble-playing program.

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