Using Partial Tablebases in Breakthrough

Autor: Richard J. Lorentz, Andrew Isaac
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Computers and Games ISBN: 9783319509341
Computers and Games
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50935-8_1
Popis: In the game of Breakthrough the endgame is reached when there are still many pieces on the board. This means there are too many possible positions to be able to construct a reasonable endgame tablebase on the standard 8 \(\times \) 8 board, or even on a 6 \(\times \) 6 board. The fact that Breakthrough pieces only move forward allows us to create partial tablebases on the last n rows of each side of the board. We show how doing this enables us to create a much stronger MCTS based 6 \(\times \) 6 player and allows us to solve positions that would otherwise be out of reach.
Databáze: OpenAIRE