greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) (09/21/89)
Some weeks ago I asked in comp.sources.wanted for information about the game "Nine Men's Morris" or source code or binary of a program to play this games. I did get several responses (thanks to all), but unfortunately no one could sent a program. Bradford Needham (bradn@tekig3.len.tek.com) supplied me with a reference: [...] > Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations > by R.C. Bell > ISBN 0-486-23855-5 > published in 1979 by > Dover Publications, Inc. > 180 Varick Street > New York, NY 10014 USA > >It's a very good collection of descriptions of the history, rules, and playing >equipment for a wide variety of games. It is a history book rather than a >game theory or computer science book. > >He references: > Chess in Iceland > by Willard Fiske > published posthumously in 1905 >Bell describes the book as "...full of information...disjointed and repetitive." [...] The book is not available in our library (or at least it's not listed in the online catalog which lists about 380000 books, i.e. all books purchased since 1976). In any case it seems not to provide algorithms for playing the game. Maybe I will ask for a program again in one of the rec.games.* groups. Thanks, -mg -- Michael Greim Email : greim@sbsvax.informatik.uni-saarland.dbp.de or : ...!uunet!unido!sbsvax!greim [.signature removed by the board of censors for electronic mail's main executive computer because it contained a four letter word ("word")]