ChessBase+Best-Publication+Awards+to+Include

Winners of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award 1999-2010: > Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2005**). //Solving Checkers//. IJCAI 2005, [|pdf]
 * Ernst Heinz (**1999**). //[|Scalable Search in Computer Chess].//
 * Eugene Nalimov (**2000**). Endgame Tablebases
 * John Romein (**2001**). //Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search//. Ph.D. thesis, [|Vrije Universiteit], supervisor Henri Bal, [|pdf]
 * Brian Sheppard (**2002**). //Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble//. Ph.D. thesis, Maastricht University, [|pdf]
 * Jeroen Donkers (**2003**). //Nosce Hostem - Searching with Opponent Models//. Ph.D. thesis, Universiteit Maastricht, [|pdf]
 * Mark Winands (**2004**). //Informed Search in Complex Games//. Ph.D. thesis, Universiteit Maastricht, [|pdf]
 * Akihiro Kishimoto (**2005**). //Correct and Efficient Search Algorithms in the Presence of Repetitions//. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings (**2006**). //[|Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]//. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Yngvi Björnsson, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2007**). //[|Checkers is Solved]//. [|Science], Vol. 317, no. 5844
 * Guillaume Chaslot, Mark Winands, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bruno Bouzy (**2008**). //Progressive Strategies for Monte-Carlo Tree Search//. [|New Mathematics and Natural Computation], Vol. 4, No. 3
 * Olivier Teytaud, Jean-Yves Audibert, Guillaume Chaslot, Louis Chatriot, Christophe Fiter, Sylvain Gelly, Rémi Munos, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Julien Pérez, Arpad Rimmel, Yizao Wang, Thomas Hérault, Vincent Danjean (**2009**). //[|MoGo] that won: one 19x19 Go game with 6-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 19x19 Go game with 7-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 9x9 Go game as Black vs a professional player//.
 * Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom (**2010**). //[|Erica], the Go Program that won the Go 2010 Computer Olympiad//.