In The Game Until The End Volume Ii

Author : Robert Wachtel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989549658

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In the Game Until the End Volume II by Robert Wachtel Pdf

In 1993 the international backgammon community was presented with a unique research report. Authored by the American expert, Robert Wachtel, In the Game Until the End set out to address the critical "stay or go" problems that arise at the 11th hour of a well-timed ace-point game. This project was an extraordinarily ambitious one, for a proper solution to those questions required the resolution of some very thorny issues of fundamental backgammon theory - and, like all explorers of his era, Wachtel had no analysis programs to rely upon. His methods, instead, were part science and part art. He rolled positions out by hand, gathered data from other experts, extrapolated, analogized and calculated. His results have hardly been challenged in the 20-year interim. But that, of course, does not mean that they are, by today's standards, accurate.This second volume of In the Game Until the End is both a revision of and a sequel to that early, landmark work. Employing the contemporary professional's analysis program of choice, eXtreme Gammon 2 (XG2), Wachtel vets his prior investigations with extensive, high-level rollouts. He then employs the same cutting-edge tools to extend his research to ace-point problems of increasing complexity. But this is not another of those "because the bot says so" tracts. Always probing for the principles underlying the results, the book's later chapters are studded with puzzles, oddities and anomalies that demand - and receive -- thoughtful interpretation.

Author : Deborah Horton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781257919611

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The Whispered Heart -Volume II by Deborah Horton Pdf

Poems of love and loss, life and death, screams and silence and through it all the heart whispers still.

Author : E. Lockhart
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375984402

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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. "Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

Author : Zélio Cabral
Publisher : Clube de Autores
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PKEY:CLDEAU60451

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Until The End! Flamengo Super Champion 2019 by Zélio Cabral Pdf

Once again Flamengo joins the history of football Brazilian and worldwide. After winning in game exciting Copa Libertadores 2019 in the November 23 in Lima, Peru, and to conquer the Brazilian Championship the next day without going into field, his achievement is spectacular and deserves to be recorded. Until the end! Flamengo Super Champion 2019 - Its history, achievements and glories is the title and subtitle of this little book. Remember the paths of Flamengo since its origin in rowing, its most important achievements and also the heroic year 2019, with the signings of the players, Florida Cup matches, Campeonato Carioca, Copa do Brazil, Libertadores and Brazilian Championship. At the end of book get acquainted with 40 curiosities about Flamengo that not even the most fanatical fans are able to to know. The book is an agile, cheerful and informative narrative of Flamengo s trajectory, by a skin writer decidedly red-black: Zélio Cabral. Yes, it s the book of a Flamengo fan. But, to be read also by the fans of the opposing teams and even by those who do not cheer for no team - and that, after that, maybe better understand the magic that football awakens.

Author : Natalia P. Tarasova
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781905839087

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Quality of Human Resources: Education - Volume II by Natalia P. Tarasova Pdf

Quality of Human Resources: Education is a component of Encyclopedia of Human Resources Policy, Development and Management which is part of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme is organized into five different topics which represent the main scientific areas of the theme: Foundations of Educational Systems; Knowledge for Education; Structural Foundations of Educational Systems; Educational Systems: Case Studies and Educational Indices; Education for Sustainable Development. Each of these consists of a topic chapter emphasizing the general aspects and various subject articles explaining the back ground, theory and practice of a specific type of education which is a very important factor in human development and awareness for achieving global sustainable development. These three volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

Author : Terence Stewart
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041192929

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The End Game by Terence Stewart Pdf

Volume Four of The GATT Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History (1986-1994) deals with the final sessions of the world's most ambitious trade negotiations to date and its most significant accomplishment--the creation of the World Trade Organization. It includes the negotiating history of important modifications made during the end-game in 1993 and before the signing ceremony in Marrakesh in April 1994. This period saw major changes in the text and the extent of obligations undertaken in the agriculture and services sectors, as well as the final completion of negotiations in subsidies and countervailing duties, customs valuation, and other sectors. It was also during this last period that the final agreements in trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and trade-related invested measures (TRIMS) emerged. Like the earlier volumes in this treatise, Volume Four is useful for its revelation not only of what was resolved but also of what was not resolved. This work belongs in the collection of all concerned with the evolution and continuing development of international trade as a vital component of our contemporary world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000105548840

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Albany Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : OSU:32437123298412

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Author : Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy, Robert Charles Elliot
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263451

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PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume II by Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy, Robert Charles Elliot Pdf

Peace Studies, Public Policy and Global Security is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Peace Studies, Public Policy and Global Security provides the essential aspects and a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Processes of Peace and Security; International Security, Peace, Development, and Environment; Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerability and Risks; Sustainable Food and Water Security; World Economic Order. This 11-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, issues on Peace studies, Public Policy and Global security. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Shinobu Amano
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798888439357

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Last Game Vol. 2 by Shinobu Amano Pdf

Yanagi's childhood vow to defeat Kujou has evolved into a love he refuses to admit. Now that they're in college, he suggests a new challenge--one that sounds a lot like a proposal. How does she react?! Meanwhile, Kujou joins the Astronomy Club, where an attractive man begins to pursue her! This volume also includes the one-shot "Forgotten Snow."

Author : Bruno de Finetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975-07-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39076006331826

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Theory of Probability, Volume 2 by Bruno de Finetti Pdf

Concerning certainty and uncertainty; Prevision and probability; Conditional prevision and probability; The evaluation of probabilities; Distributions; A preliminary survey; Random processes with independent increments; An introduction to other types of stochastic process; Problems in higher dimensions; Inductive reasoning: statistical inference; Mathematical statistics.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Robert H Wachtel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098954964X

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The Backgammon Chronicles by Robert H Wachtel Pdf

This volume rejoins the backgammon epic in mid-2011, just as its carnival years were winding down. The projects of online money backgammon and television series on the poker model were failing; and with their demise a new landscape came in to view: drawn in deeper hues, it revealed a backgammon geography with centers of power in Japan, Denmark, Turkey and the United States and a re-imagination of the game itself--from its traditional role as a gambling recreation to that of a true mind sport--with a player's excellence no longer judged by his "earn" but by the rating assigned him by artificial-intelligence programs ("bots") that were stronger than any human. A hustler no longer, the hero of the second decade of the 21st century emerged as a dedicated statistical scientist, training with the same AI that would judge him in his noble quest for backgammon truth. This fresh paradigm led to the staging of several exceptional events, the most eminent of which was an annual team match that pitted Denmark against "the rest of the world." This might sound like an unfair contest, but it was hardly so, for that small Scandinavian nation was undoubtedly (for reasons carefully explained in Chronicles) by far the world's strongest. The author made the World team four times, in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015, and did his best to record not only the decisions that were eventually made by the teams but also the passionate debates that led to them. Disciples of the analysis programs that these masters of the game may have been, they were far from robotic themselves--and this volume faithfully reproduces some of the fascinating ground-zero interplay, under terrific pressure, of visceral emotion and brilliant intelligence. To further emphasize the players' humanity: when at last they could not agree with one another, they frequently relieved the tension with bets The author followed the tour as it continued with new sponsors and destinations. His travels took him to Gibraltar, the legendary British fortress at the southern tip of Spain that has lately become a gaming and offshore banking haven; to the exotic Black-Sea republic of Georgia, where, as in most Middle-Eastern countries, backgammon is the national game, played by everyone--young, old, rich, poor, male and female; and to North Cyprus, which nowadays is to nearby Islamic lands something like what Cuba used to be to the USA: an offshore refuge for gamblers whose preferred recreations are prohibited at home. And the island's casinos treat their customers as Vegas did theirs 40 years ago: with cheap rooms, 24-hour buffets, and open bars where the free alcohol never stops flowing. The weather is fine, so it's no surprise that the turnout for Cyprus is always huge. Full disclosure: though contrary to the author's principles, this volume contains a baklava food-porn photo (there are about 15 varieties on offer every day, all day long).

Author : Frederick W. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560802

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Queen's University by Frederick W. Gibson Pdf

The author emphasizes the role of individuals and yet makes it quite evident that by the time of her centenary in the early days of World War II, Queen's had developed an organic vitality through which the vicissitudes occasioned by external fortunes or by internal tensions could be transcended. Throughout the period covered by this volume Queen's faced a long, hard struggle for adequate resources for research in terms of space, equipment, and most importanly, faculty time; the gradual development of graduate work; and the building of library resources. There was firm and creative leadership through the crises of the war and its aftermath and a renewal of optimism through the final decades of this history.

Author : David A. Blackwell,M. A. Girshick
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486150895

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Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions by David A. Blackwell,M. A. Girshick Pdf

Evaluating statistical procedures through decision and game theory, as first proposed by Neyman and Pearson and extended by Wald, is the goal of this problem-oriented text in mathematical statistics. First-year graduate students in statistics and other students with a background in statistical theory and advanced calculus will find a rigorous, thorough presentation of statistical decision theory treated as a special case of game theory. The work of Borel, von Neumann, and Morgenstern in game theory, of prime importance to decision theory, is covered in its relevant aspects: reduction of games to normal forms, the minimax theorem, and the utility theorem. With this introduction, Blackwell and Professor Girshick look at: Values and Optimal Strategies in Games; General Structure of Statistical Games; Utility and Principles of Choice; Classes of Optimal Strategies; Fixed Sample-Size Games with Finite Ω and with Finite A; Sufficient Statistics and the Invariance Principle; Sequential Games; Bayes and Minimax Sequential Procedures; Estimation; and Comparison of Experiments. A few topics not directly applicable to statistics, such as perfect information theory, are also discussed. Prerequisites for full understanding of the procedures in this book include knowledge of elementary analysis, and some familiarity with matrices, determinants, and linear dependence. For purposes of formal development, only discrete distributions are used, though continuous distributions are employed as illustrations. The number and variety of problems presented will be welcomed by all students, computer experts, and others using statistics and game theory. This comprehensive and sophisticated introduction remains one of the strongest and most useful approaches to a field which today touches areas as diverse as gambling and particle physics.