“…The main contribution is therefore that we successfully adapted MCTS for a one-player game. Inspired by our approach, two other Monte-Carlo-based approaches, Nested Monte-Carlo Search (Cazenave, 2009) and Heuristically Guided Swarm Tree Search (Edelkamp et al, 2010), broke our record subsequently. At the time of publishing this thesis SP-MCTS, with parameters tuned by the Cross-Entropy Method and with time equally distributed over the consecutive positions, scored 78,012 points on the test set, which is currently the third highest score (2010).…”