Books on Chess- and Bridge-playing programs

[Andrew Jones]

A while back I posted the following message:

>[Posted for a colleague...]
>
>What books would give a good overview of the current state of computer Chess- >and Bridge- playing programs?

Thanks to those who responded:

David Dowe (d...@stan.xx.swin.oz.au)
'Ted' (ted%edu....@edu.nmsu.opus)

References given which would appear to provide an introduction to the area
were:

Scientific American, which 'recently had a nice survey of chess playing'.

Turbo Pascal Game Works
1985 Borland International Inc.
ISBN 0-87524-146-8

The Mathematical Theory of Bridge
Emile Borel and Andre Cheron
tr. ed. Alec Traub

The above information was in turn extracted in part from a posting by
Bart Massey who made a request for bibliography and information on
AI & probabilistics in Bridge play a while back. My attention was also
drawn to the fact that there is a newsgroup for chess, namely:

rec.games.chess

Incidentally, I was asked if there was any particular reason for including my signature twice. It was accidental. Sorry! (I hope it will appear,
but only once, below...)

Andrew.

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