Retrograde analysis is a tool for reconstructing a game tree starting from its leaves; with these techniques one can solve specific subsets of a complex game, achieving optimal pl...
With the recent success of Monte-Carlo tree search algorithms in Go and other games, and the increasing number of cores in standard CPUs, the efficient parallelization of the sear...
Abstract. Commercial games have various methods of game balancing, which modify the game’s entertainment value for players of different skill levels. This paper presents a way o...
Giel van Lankveld, Pieter Spronck, H. Jaap van den...
Abstract. Complete tablebases, indicating best moves for every position, exist for chess endgames. There is no doubt that tablebases contain a wealth of knowledge, however, mining ...
Matej Guid, Martin Mozina, Aleksander Sadikov, Iva...
One of the main challenges with selective search extensions is designing effective move categories (features). This is a manual trial and error task, which requires both intuition...