Beasley surveys the mathematical results, and presents analyses and
discussions of this and related puzzles.
J. D. Beasley,
"The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire",
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992.
Berlekamp, Conway and Guy discuss heuristic approaches, necessary conditions
for feasibility and variants:
E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway, R. K. Guy,
"Winning Ways for your mathematical plays Vol.2: Games in Particular,"
Academic Press, London, pp. 729-730, 1982.
A CSP model is presented in:
C. Jefferson, A. Miguel, I. Miguel, A. Tarim,
"Modelling
and Solving English Peg Solitaire,"
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Integration
of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems (CPAIOR'03), pp. 261--275, 2003.
Moore and Eppstein discuss the 1-dimensional problem:
C. Moore and D. Eppstein,
"One-dimensional
Peg Solitaire, and Duotaire,"
In R.J. Nowalski (editor), More Games of No Chance,
Cambridge University Press, pp. 341--350, 2000.
Uehara and Iwata show the NP-completeness of generalised Peg Solitaire: