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Darse Billings [1] Darse Billings,

a Canadian computer scientist and computer games researcher and developer, affiliated with the London based game development company Gamesys [2] [3], He holds a M.Sc. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2006 on Computer Poker from University of Alberta. His research interests cover not only games of chance and incomplete information games like Roshambo, but also abstract strategy games, in particular Lines of Action, where his program Mona won the de facto world championship in 2000, defeating all of the top human players, and winning every game it played [4]. Darse Billings is creator and director of The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions [5] , co-founder and lead architect for the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group [6] , and designer of the pokerbots Loki, Poki, Sparbot, Vexbot, Hyperborean, Polaris, Maxwell, Qeqbot, et al., commercially licenced beside others to Poker Academy [7] and Stacked [8].

Selected Publication#

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1995 …#

• Darse Billings (1995). Computer Poker. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta, pdf
• Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (1998). Poker as a Testbed for Machine Intelligence Research. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
• Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (1998). Opponent Modeling in Poker. AAAI/IAAI 1998, pdf

2000 …#

• Darse Billings (2000). Thoughts on RoShamBo. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1
• Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (2000). Mona and YL’s Lines of Action.
• Darse Billings (2000). The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [11]
• Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (2002). The Challenge of Poker. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, No. 1-2, pdf
• Darse Billings (2003). Vexbot wins Poker tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 » 8th Computer Olympiad
• Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (2003). Search and Knowledge in Lines of Action. Advances in Computer Games 10, pdf
• Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, Duane Szafron (2003). Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker. IJCAI-2003, Winner of the IJCAI/AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award, pdf
• Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Terence Schauenberg, Neil Burch, Michael Bowling, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (2004). Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games. CG 2004

2005 …#

• Finnegan Southey, Michael Bowling, Bryce Larson, Carmelo Piccione, Neil Burch, Darse Billings, D. Chris Rayner (2005, 2012). Bayes’ Bluff: Opponent Modelling in Poker. UAI 2005, arXiv:1207.1411
• Darse Billings (2006). Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta
• Darse Billings, Morgan Kan (2006). A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3
• Darse Billings (2006). On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4 [12]

Forum Posts#

1990 …#

• Man vs Computer Checkers Championship by Darse Billings, rgc, August 20, 1992 » Checkers
• Re: Checkers match by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992
• rec.games.strategic by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992

Awari? by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992 » Awari

• Analysis: Please include your rating! by Darse Billings, rgc, September 11, 1992
• how does go compare with chess? by Darse Billings, rgc, July 25, 1994
• Chessgammon: A Playable Hybrid of Chess and Backgammon by Darse Billings, rgc, August 08, 1994
• Re: Checkers Championship - additional information by Darse Billings, rgc, August 22, 1994

2000 …#

• Shredder wins in Graz after controversy by Darse Billings, CCC, December 09, 2003 » Shredder, WCCC 2003
• Shredder wins in Graz after controversy – rebuttal by Darse Billings, CCC, December 21, 2003

External Links#

• Darse’s garish blue-green homepage
• Darse Billings’ ICGA Tournaments
• Darse Billings - LinkedIn
• Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments by Darse Billings, ChessBase News, December 14, 2006
• Darse’s No-Limit Hold’em Tournament Primer

References#

1. ↑ At the semi-regular Tuesday Night Poker Tournament for chess geeks (photo: Jim Roy), Photo Gallery: Darse
2. ↑ Gamesys Corporate
3. ↑ Darse Billings - LinkedIn
4. ↑ Mona and YL’s Lines of Action Page
5. ↑ RoShamBo Programming Competition
6. ↑ CPRG Homepage
7. ↑ Poker Academy
8. ↑ Curriculum vitae (brief) Dr. Darse Billings
9. ↑ ICGA Reference Database
10. ↑ DBLP: Darse Billings
11. ↑ RoShamBo Programming Competitions
12. ↑ Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments by Darse Billings, ChessBase News, December 14, 2006

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