1. What is Scopa?
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Scopa is an italian card game. This is a computer version where one
can play Scopa against the computer.

It is written using the Illumination GUI library. The library and this program
can be found at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/illumination.

2 . Licence
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The game itself is under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). A copy of the
licence is part of the archive (see file 'COPYING').

The standard images of cards are copyright by David Bellot
(http://david.bellot.free.fr/svg-cards/), are under LGPL and are generated
from the svg original.

The scopa card images are cut using GIMP from the original images at the
italian wikipedia referenced under the link:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_da_gioco. The original images have
the links:
* http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Carte_da_gioco_napoletane_bastoni.jpg
* http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Carte_da_gioco_napoletane_coppe.jpg
* http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Carte_da_gioco_napoletane_denari.jpg
* http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Carte_da_gioco_napoletane_spade.jpg

and are scanned images from more than 400 year old cards.

All these images are under the GNU free Documentation Licence 1.2 or higher.

3. References
=============

The following documents are good introductions to neural networks and
reinforcement learning and were helpful during the development of
MrNeuron:
* Michel Tokic: Reinforcement Learning an Robotern mit neuronalen Netzen
  (http://webseiten.hs-weingarten.de/tokicm/publikationen/masterarbeit)
* Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Reinforcement Learning: An
   Introduction (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html)
* ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/anw/pub/sutton/td-backprop-pseudo-code



