Snooker: Celebrating 40 years at the Crucible
In 2017, Snooker celebrated 40 years at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. It moved to this venue in 1997, which is now recognised at the start of the modern era of the same. In this article, we look at some of snooker’s history, along with some of its major characters and a few of its […]
When Sports Rules Go Awry: How TheConversation led to a collaborative paper
Whilst looking through Conversation articles I came across an article entitled “When scoring an own-goal is the only way to win” by Liam Lenten. By coincidence, I had just read another article about an analysis of sporting rules from the perspecive of Operations Research, written by a good friend of mine – Mike Wright from […]
The Monty Hall Problem
You’re on a game show and the host asks you to pick one of three doors. Behind one of them is the star prize: a sports car. Behind the other two are goats. Once you have made your pick, the show host opens one of the other doors – always revealing a goat. The host […]
How to get ants to solve a chess problem
How to get ants to solve a chess problem By Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham Take a set of chess pieces and throw them all away except for one knight. Place the knight on any one of the 64 squares of a chess board. Can you make 63 legal moves so that you visit every […]
Knight’s Tour
If you are interested in Chess, you may have come across Knight’s Tour problem before. Your task is to take a knight and place it anywhere on the chess board. Then, by performing legal Knight’s moves. can you visit each square on the chess board? Moreoever, you are only allowed to visit each square once […]
The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games: Report
I have just spent the last week at the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computation Intelligence and Games in Milan (see last post). It has been an excellent week both from a scientific point of view and from a networking point of view (I have even added a few new facebook friends as a result of […]
The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
I have just arrived in Milan for the 2009 CIG (Computational Intelligence and Games) conference. This was a conference that Simon Lucas and I started in 2005. Simon is now editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games. The 2005 conference, I believe, was partly responsible for paving the way […]