Players’ On-Court Movements and Contextual Variables in Badminton World Championship

World-championship-caliber Scrabble

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, sim...

19th World Computer-Bridge Championship

Musculoskeletal injuries among Malaysian badminton players.

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to investigate the pattern of musculoskeletal injuries sustained by Malaysian badminton players. METHODS This is a retrospective case notes review of all badminton players who attended the National Sports Institute (NSI) Clinic, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and were diagnosed with musculoskeletal injuries. RESULT In a two and a half year period, from Ja...

Identifying Keys to Win in the World Karate Championship

Background. Studies in this domain help focus on the techniques with high application to improve the point attainment, without providing points for the other opponents. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to analyze and investigate the most common scoring techniques used and the highest intensity competition times that have been fulfilled by the champions of the World Karate Leagues 2019...

Comparison of Joint Loading in Badminton Lunging between Professional and Amateur Badminton Players

The knee and ankle are the two most injured joints associated with the sport of badminton. This study evaluates biomechanical factors between professional and amateur badminton players using an injury mechanism model. The aim of this study was to investigate the kinematic motion and kinetic loading differences of the right knee and ankle while performing a maximal right lunge. Amateur players e...