Identifying Keys to Win in the World Karate Championship

Success in Spades: Using AI Planning Techniques to Win the World Championship of Computer Bridge

The latest world-championship competition for computer bridge programs was the Baron Barclay World Bridge Computer Challenge, hosted in July 1997 by the American Contract Bridge League. As reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the competition’s winner was a new version of Great Game Products’ Bridge Baron program. This version, Bridge Baron 8, has since gone on the market; and...

Four Keys to Building a Championship Culture

Chantal Vallée is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology with a focus on building successful programs. She has received 12 conference and 2 national coach of the year awards, produced 4 national team members, and has won 5 national titles. In her last seven seasons, she has maintained a 93% winning pe...

World-championship-caliber Scrabble

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, sim...

19th World Computer-Bridge Championship

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Scoring Techniques in the Final Competitions of the Karate World Championships 2016

Background. Scoring is the main determinant factor for winning in any sport and good techniques can facilitate scoring. In Karate, there are series of punching and kicking techniques that fighters use for scoring. Objectives. The aim of this research was to determine the most scoring techniques and their frequencies in final kumite competitions of 2016 world karate championships. Methods. By ...