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1992
Technical report TR92-19. In August 1992, the first man versus machine world championship took place. The champion, Dr. Marion Tinsley, is arguably the greatest checkers player that ever lived. The challenger was the computer checkers program Chinook, a 3 year team effort from the University of...
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1993
Lake, Robert, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Lu, Paul
Technical report TR93-13. Chess endgame databases, while of important theoretical interest, have yet to make a significant impact in tournament chess. In the game of checkers, however, endgame databases have played a pivotal role in the success of our World Championship challenger program...
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2004
Cutumisu, M., McNaughton, M., Parker, D., Schaeffer, Jonathan, Redford, J., Szafron, Duane
Technical report TR04-05. Recently, some researchers have argued that generative design patterns (GDPs) can leverage the obvious design re-use that characterizes traditional design patterns into code re-use. This paper provides additional evidence that GDPs are both useful and productive. ...
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2006
Technical report TR06-07. The development of the Ignorant Value Assessment Tool (DIVAT) for two-player Limit Texas Hold'em is discussed in detail. The tool is then applied to several poker matches to obtain a statistically unbiased reduced-variance analysis of skill differences. Please note:...
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2007
Johanson, Michael, Bowling, Michael, Zinkevich, Martin
Technical report TR07-15. Adaptation to other initially unknown agents often requires computing an effective counter-strategy. In the Bayesian paradigm, one must find a good counter-strategy to the inferred posterior of the other agents' behavior. In the experts paradigm, one may want to choose...
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2007
Bowling, Michael, Johanson, Michael, Zinkevich, Martin, Piccione, Carmelo
Technical report TR07-14. Extensive games are a powerful model of multiagent decision-making scenarios with incomplete information. Finding a Nash equilibrium for very large instances of these games has received a great deal of recent attention. In this paper, we describe a new technique for...
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Fuego - An Open-source Framework for Board Games and Go Engine Based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search
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Enzenberger, Markus, Mueller, Martin
Technical report TR09-08. Fuego is an open-source software framework for developing game engines for full-information two-player board games, with a focus on the game of Go. It was mainly developed by the Computer Go group of the University of Alberta. Fuego includes a Go engine with a playing...
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2009
Bowling, Michael, Zinkevich, Martin, Waugh, Kevin, Lanctot, Marc
Technical report TR09-15. Sequential decision-making with multiple agents and imperfect information is commonly modeled as an extensive game. One efficient method for computing Nash equilibria in large, zero-sum, imperfect information games is counterfactual regret minimization (CFR). In the...