Better pdf at <a href="http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/jacobson+appel/aj.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/jacobson+appel/aj.pdf</a><p>Source code at <a href="http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/jacobson+appel/mac/Crab_sources/Macintosh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/jacobson+appel/mac/Crab_sourc...</a>
I've written a very fast Scrabble program in JavaScript which I think should perform on par with it (i.e greedy algorithm that chooses word with best possible score for the next move)<p><a href="http://amnond.github.io/jscrab/" rel="nofollow">http://amnond.github.io/jscrab/</a>
IIRC this was beaten later by Steven Gordon's GADDAG algorithm.<p>Edit: yep. Fixed name. Here's the Wikipedia link:<p><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADDAG" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADDAG</a>