Artificial Intelligence for Games

Abstract

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The phenomenon of decision oscillation: A new consequence of pathology in game trees

“…In practice, many refinements have been developed in order to improve the performance of the minimax search algorithm. 3,4 Here, we concentrate on the classical minimax search algorithm, noting that the results of the paper would apply to any variant of the algorithm that guarantees the same outcome as classical minimax, such as alpha-beta pruning. 4 Many of the variants of the minimax search algorithm 4 would not necessarily return the same minimax value as classical minimax and therefore would demand separate study.…”

“…The value of the root is determined by computing a score for each leaf value using a static evaluation function and backing up these scores using the minimax rule. In practice, many refinements have been developed in order to improve the performance of the minimax search algorithm 3,4 …”