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Combinatorial game theory
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Game theory
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Key facts & relationships
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Overview
Game theory
- Pure strategies Strategy (game theory)
- Zero-sum game
- Nash equilibrium
- Minimax theorem
- Example of a game without a value
- Payoff matrix
- Mixed Mixed strategy
- Repeated games
- Folk theorem Folk theorem (game theory)
Example
Combinatorial game theory
- Tic-tac-toe
- Algorithm
- Position evaluation function Evaluation function
- John H. Conway John Horton Conway
- Chess
- Go Go (board game)
- Heuristic
- Plies Ply (chess)
- Deep Blue IBM Deep Blue
- Garry Kasparov
- Nodes Node (computer science)
- Branching factor
- Increases exponentially Exponential growth
- Forced moves Forced move
- Impractical Computational complexity theory
- Alpha–beta pruning
- Principal Variation Variation (game tree)
- Pseudocode
- Leaf nodes
- Negamax
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes71
Edges70
Triples78
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1
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Minimax
Top relations
related to External links · 14
Minimax → Algorithms, Archived, Curriculum, Data Structures, Dictionary, EMS Press, Encyclopedia, Games, Mathematics, Maximin, Mixed, Names, Philosophical Terms, US NIST
related to Minimax algorithm with alternate moves · 10
Minimax → A's, An, B's, Conway, For, If, John, Often, The, This
related to Combinatorial game theory · 6
Minimax → At, B's, If, In, Late, The
related to Criterion in statistical decision theory · 6
Minimax → An, Bayes, In, Pi, Theta, We
related to Non-probabilistic decision theory · 6
Minimax → Compare, Further, Info-gap, It, This, Various
see also · 5
Minimax → Alpha, Carlo, Champion, CondorcetMinimax, TatTransposition
related to In the face of uncertainty · 4
Minimax → For, In, Murphy's, One
related to Maximin · 4
Minimax → Frequently, In, Maximin, Nash
related to Pseudocode · 4
Minimax → For, Hence, Non-leaf, The
related to Minimax in democracy · 3
Minimax → LEV, The, To
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
player game value algorithm displaystyle maximin maximum moves games possible theory zero-sum payoff move players nodes loss values heuristic node
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tic-tac-toe | instance of | deals with games | 0.80 | text |
| where each player can win | instance of | deals with games | 0.80 | text |
| lose | instance of | deals with games | 0.80 | text |
| or draw | instance of | deals with games | 0.80 | text |
| chess or go | instance of | Often this is generally only possible at the very end of complicated games | 0.80 | text |
| since it is not computationally feasible to look ahead as far as the completion of the game | instance of | Often this is generally only possible at the very end of complicated games | 0.80 | text |
| except towards the end | instance of | Often this is generally only possible at the very end of complicated games | 0.80 | text |
| and instead | instance of | Often this is generally only possible at the very end of complicated games | 0.80 | text |
| positions are given finite values as estimates of the degree of belief that they will lead to a win for one player or another.This can be extended if we can supply a heuristic evaluation function which gives values to non-final game states without considering all possible following complete sequences | instance of | Often this is generally only possible at the very end of complicated games | 0.80 | text |
| chess using the minimax algorithm.The performance of the naïve minimax algorithm may be improved dramatically | instance of | It is therefore impractical to completely analyze games | 0.80 | text |
| without affecting the result | instance of | It is therefore impractical to completely analyze games | 0.80 | text |
| by the use of alpha | instance of | It is therefore impractical to completely analyze games | 0.80 | text |
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