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Spring 2010
The Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT) has become extremely popular in computer games research. Because of the importance of this family of algorithms, a deeper understanding of when and how their different enhancements work is desirable. To...
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Spring 2012
Havannah is a recent game that is interesting from an AI research perspective. Some of its properties, including virtual connections, frames, dead cells, draws and races to win, are explained. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is well suited to play Havannah, but many improvements are possible....