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Adjusting to a weaker opponent  (Brian Sheppard, July 1997) 

Anticomputer positions  (Bill Taylor+, June 1998) 

BKG 9.8 vs. Villa  (Raccoon+, Aug 2006) 

BKG 9.8 vs. Villa  (Andreas Schneider, June 1992) 

BKG beats world champion  (Marty Storer, Sept 1991) 

Backgames  (David Montgomery+, June 1998) 

Blockading feature  (Sam Pottle+, Feb 1999) 

Board encoding for neural network  (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997) 

Bot weaknesses  (Douglas Zare, Mar 2003) 

Building and training a neural-net player  (Brian Sheppard, Aug 1998) 

How to count plies?  (Chuck Bower+, Jan 2004) 

How to count plies?  (tanglebear+, Mar 2003) 

Ideas for improving computer play  (David Montgomery, Feb 1994) 

Ideas on computer players  (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997) 

Introduction  (Gareth McCaughan, Oct 1994) 

Measuring Difficulty  (John Robson+, Feb 2005) 

Methods of encoding positions  (Gary Wong, Jan 2001) 

Neural net questions  (Brian Sheppard, Mar 1999) 

Pruning the list of moves  (David Montgomery+, Feb 1994) 

Search in Trees with Chance Nodes  (Thomas Hauk, Feb 2004) 

Source code  (Gary Wong, Dec 1999) 

TD-Gammon vs. Robertie  (David Escoffery, June 1992) 

Training for different gammon values  (Gerry Tesauro, Feb 1996) 

Training neural nets  (Walter Trice, Nov 2000) 

Variance reduction in races  (David Montgomery+, Dec 1998) 

Variance reduction of rollouts  (Michael J. Zehr+, Aug 1998) 

Variance reduction of rollouts  (Jim Williams, June 1997) 

What is a "neural net"?  (Gary Wong, Oct 1998) 

Writing a backgammon program  (Gary Wong, Jan 1999) 

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