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Richard Joseph Lorentz, an American computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at California State University, Northridge. His major research activity involves the study of game playing programming. He is co-author and supervisor of the successful Amazons program Invader, co-author of the Havannah program Wanderer, and the Dots and Boxes program Matadots. His main interests is to expand Monte-Carlo tree search algorithms that exist in Invader and Wanderer.

=Photos= Ingo Althöfer and Richard J. Lorentz playing EinStein würfelt nicht! at the 16th Computer Olympiad, 2011

=See also=
 * Advances in Computer Games 13 | Video

=Selected Publications=

1980 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (1980). Deterministic and Nondeterministic Flowchart Interpretations. Ph.D. thesis, Washington State University, advisor David Bernard Benson
 * Michael G. Main, Richard J. Lorentz (1984). An O(n log n) Algorithm for Finding All Repetitions in a String. Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 5 No. 3

1990 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (1994). Recursive algorithms. Intellect Books

2000 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (2000). Creating Difficult Instances of the Post Correspondence Problem. CG 2000
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2002). First-time entry Amazong wins Amazons tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2002). Finding Territory in Amazons. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * Henry Avetisyan, Richard J. Lorentz (2002). Selective Search in an Amazons Program. CG 2002
 * Akop Karapetyan, Richard J. Lorentz (2004). Generating an Opening Book for Amazons. CG 2004

2005 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (2005). 8QP wins Amazons tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 » 10th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2008). Amazons Discover Monte-Carlo. CG 2008
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2008). The Shark wins Dots and Boxes tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4 » 13th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2009). Invader wins Amazons tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 » 13th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2009). The Advances in Computer Games Conference 2009. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3 » Advances in Computer Games 12

2010 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (2010). Improving Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Havannah. CG 2010
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2010). The 7th Computer and Games Conference. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 » CG 2010
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2010). Castro wins Havannah Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4 » 15th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2011). An MCTS Program to Play EinStein Würfelt Nicht! Advances in Computer Games 13
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2011). Experiments with Monte-Carlo Tree Search in the Game of Havannah. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2012). Castro wins Havannah Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 » 16th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2013). INVADER Wins Amazons Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4 » 17th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz, Therese Horey (2013). Programming Breakthrough. CG 2013 » Breakthrough (Game)

2015 ...

 * Richard J. Lorentz (2015). Early Playout Termination in MCTS. Advances in Computer Games 14
 * Ingo Althöfer, Richard J. Lorentz, Matthias Beckmann (2015). Advances in Computer Games Conference 2015. Report, ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3 » Advances in Computer Games 14
 * Richard J. Lorentz, Andrew Isaac (2016). Using Partial Tablebases in Breakthrough. CG 2016
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2017). Machine Learning in the Game of Breakthrough. Advances in Computer Games 15
 * Mark Winands, Richard J. Lorentz, Matej Guid (2017). Advances in Computer Games 2017. ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, Nos. 3-4 » Advances in Computer Games 15
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2017). Invader wins eighth Amazons gold medal. ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, Nos. 3-4 » 20th Computer Olympiad 2017
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2017). Wanderer wins Breakthrough tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, Nos. 3-4 » 20th Computer Olympiad 2017

=External Links=
 * Richard J. Lorentz - Welcome
 * Richard Lorentz' ICGA Tournaments
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Richard Lorentz
 * Richard Lorentz in Jena - 2011 by Ingo Althöfer

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