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(Message started by: cvic on Mar 15th, 2014, 5:38pm)

Title: Arimaa books I would love to read
Post by cvic on Mar 15th, 2014, 5:38pm
By topics:

1. From beginner to grand master

"Arimaa Workbook for Children"

"The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Arimaa / Arimaa for Dummies / Learn Arimaa in 21 Days"

"Teach Yourself Arimaa in 10 Years"
(reference to this brilliant article by Peter Norvig http://norvig.com/21-days.html)

"The Arimaa Training Pocket Book"


"The Most Instructive Games of Arimaa Ever Played"

"Arimaa: 3000 Problems, Combinations, and Games"

"Arimaa Puzzles"

"500 Best Short Games of Arimaa"
games under 15 turns

"1000 Best Arimaa Immobilization/Elimination Games"

"Turning Arimaa Misconceptions into Arimaa Mastery"

"How to Become a Deadly Arimaa Tactician"

"Arimaa Master vs. Arimaa Amateur"

"A Compendium of Unusual Arimaa Games"


1a. Arimaa Mistakes (a topic that obsesses me)

"Catalog of Arimaa Mistakes: How to recognize and correct mistake patterns of all kinds - tactical, strategic, psychological, and more"

"The Seven Deadly Arimaa Sins"


1b. Special topics

Books that discuss only one aspect of the game: openings, trap control, hostages, lone elephant attacks, elephant and camel attacks, elephant and horse attacks, elephant and minor piece attacks, multi-piece swarming attacks, camel and horse attacks, double-trap attacks, multi-trap fights, endgames.

"Cheating at Arimaa"
using special magic tricks and alien technology to cheat at Arimaa tournaments

2. Artificial Intelligence topics / Computer Arimaa

"Computers in Arimaa - Solving Inexact Search Problems"

"Most Common Techniques used in Arimaa bots"
chapters about bitboards, transposition tables, Zobrist hashing, Minimax and Alpha beta pruning, killer moves, refutation tables, static evaluation functions, Quiescence search, Monte-Carlo tree search


"How to Beat the Computer at Arimaa"
selected games with the best bots - bot_Ziltoid, bot_Marwin, bot_Sharp, bot_Bomb -  and how to beat them

"The Arimaa Bot Basher Encyclopedia"


3. The people / the Arimaa community

An autobiography by Omar Syed


"My 100 Memorable Games, Selected and fully annotated"
by Jean Daligault
Karl Juhnke
Greg Magne
[insert future Arimaa World Champion here]


"Arimaa challenge contenders at work"
Interviews with David Fotland, Jeff Bacher, Mattias Hultgren, Ricardo Barreira, David Wu, Jeff Bacher, Toby Hudson
their background, their inspiration, their passion for Arimaa, and what they think about the future of this game

"One vs TheMob /  TheMob vs TheGang"
;- )

Sorry for ripping off some chess book titles...  

Title: Re: Arimaa books I would love to read
Post by mistre on Mar 19th, 2014, 3:01pm
These are great ideas!



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