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This time: Outline. Game playing The minimax algorithm Resource limitations alpha-beta pruning Elements of chance. What kind of games?. Abstraction : To describe a game we must capture every relevant aspect of the game. Such as: Chess Tic-tac-toe …

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  1. This time: Outline • Game playing • The minimax algorithm • Resource limitations • alpha-beta pruning • Elements of chance SE 420

  2. What kind of games? • Abstraction: To describe a game we must capture every relevant aspect of the game. Such as: • Chess • Tic-tac-toe • … • Accessibleenvironments: Such games are characterized by perfect information • Search: game-playing then consists of a search through possible game positions • Unpredictable opponent: introduces uncertainty thus game-playing must deal with contingency problems SE 420

  3. Searching for the next move • Complexity: many games have a huge search space • Chess: b = 35, m=100 nodes =35 100if each node takes about 1 ns to explore then each move will take about 10 50 millenniato calculate. • Resource (e.g., time, memory) limit: optimal solution not feasible/possible, thus must approximate • Pruning: makes the search more efficient by discarding portions of the search tree that cannot improve quality result. • Evaluation functions:heuristics to evaluate utility of a state without exhaustive search. SE 420

  4. Two-player games • A game formulated as a search problem: • Initial state: ? • Operators: ? • Terminal state: ? • Utility function: ? SE 420

  5. Two-player games • A game formulated as a search problem: • Initial state: board position and turn • Operators: definition of legal moves • Terminal state: conditions for when game is over • Utility function: a numeric value that describes the outcome of the game. E.g., -1, 0, 1 for loss, draw, win. (AKA payoff function) SE 420

  6. Game vs. search problem SE 420

  7. Example: Tic-Tac-Toe SE 420

  8. Type of games SE 420

  9. Type of games SE 420

  10. The minimax algorithm • Perfect play for deterministic environments with perfect information • Basic idea: choose move with highest minimax value = best achievable payoff against best play • Algorithm: • Generate game tree completely • Determine utility of each terminal state • Propagate the utility values upward in the tree by applying MIN and MAX operators on the nodes in the current level • At the root node use minimax decision to select the move with the max (of the min) utility value • Steps 2 and 3 in the algorithm assume that the opponent will play perfectly. SE 420

  11. Generate Game Tree SE 420

  12. Generate Game Tree SE 420

  13. Generate Game Tree SE 420

  14. Generate Game Tree 1 ply 1 move SE 420

  15. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o x x x x x x x x x x x x x x o o o o o o o o o o o o o o x x x x x x x A subtree win lose draw x o o o x x o o o x x o x o x o x x x x o x SE 420

  16. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o x x x x x x x x x x x x x x o o o o o o o o o o o o o o x x x x x x x What is a good move? win lose draw x o o o x x o o o x x o x o x o x x x x o x SE 420

  17. Minimax 3 12 8 2 4 6 14 5 2 • Minimize opponent’s chance • Maximize your chance SE 420

  18. Minimax 3 2 2 MIN 3 12 8 2 4 6 14 5 2 • Minimize opponent’s chance • Maximize your chance SE 420

  19. Minimax 3 MAX 3 2 2 MIN 3 12 8 2 4 6 14 5 2 • Minimize opponent’s chance • Maximize your chance SE 420

  20. Minimax 3 MAX 3 2 2 MIN 3 12 8 2 4 6 14 5 2 • Minimize opponent’s chance • Maximize your chance SE 420

  21. minimax = maximum of the minimum 1st ply 2nd ply SE 420

  22. Minimax: Recursive implementation Complete: ?Optimal: ? Time complexity: ?Space complexity: ? SE 420

  23. Minimax: Recursive implementation Complete: Yes, for finite state-spaceOptimal: Yes Time complexity: O(bm)Space complexity: O(bm) (= DFSDoes not keep all nodes in memory.) SE 420

  24. 1. Move evaluation without complete search • Complete search is too complex and impractical • Evaluation function: evaluates value of state using heuristics and cuts off search • New MINIMAX: • CUTOFF-TEST: cutoff test to replace the termination condition (e.g., deadline, depth-limit, etc.) • EVAL: evaluation function to replace utility function (e.g., number of chess pieces taken) SE 420

  25. Evaluation functions • Weighted linear evaluation function: to combine n heuristicsf = w1f1 + w2f2 + … + wnfn E.g, w’s could be the values of pieces (1 for prawn, 3 for bishop etc.)f’s could be the number of type of pieces on the board SE 420

  26. Note: exact values do not matter SE 420

  27. Minimax with cutoff: viable algorithm? Assume we have 100 seconds, evaluate 104 nodes/s; can evaluate 106 nodes/move SE 420

  28. 2. - pruning: search cutoff • Pruning: eliminating a branch of the search tree from consideration without exhaustive examination of each node • - pruning:the basic idea is to prune portions of the search tree that cannot improve the utility value of the max or min node, by just considering the values of nodes seen so far. • Does it work? Yes, in roughly cuts the branching factor from b to b resulting in double as far look-ahead than pure minimax SE 420

  29. - pruning: example  6 MAX MIN 6 6 12 8 SE 420

  30. - pruning: example  6 MAX MIN 6  2 6 12 8 2 SE 420

  31. - pruning: example  6 MAX MIN  5 6  2 6 12 8 2 5 SE 420

  32. - pruning: example  6 MAX Selected move MIN  5 6  2 6 12 8 2 5 SE 420

  33. - pruning: general principle Player m  Opponent If  > v then MAX will chose m so prune tree under n Similar for for MIN Player n v Opponent SE 420

  34. Properties of - SE 420

  35. The - algorithm: SE 420

  36. More on the - algorithm • Same basic idea as minimax, but prune (cut away) branches of the tree that we know will not contain the solution. SE 420

  37. More on the - algorithm: start from Minimax SE 420

  38. Remember: Minimax: Recursive implementation Complete: Yes, for finite state-spaceOptimal: Yes Time complexity: O(bm)Space complexity: O(bm) (= DFSDoes not keep all nodes in memory.) SE 420

  39. More on the - algorithm • Same basic idea as minimax, but prune (cut away) branches of the tree that we know will not contain the solution. • Because minimax is depth-first, let’s consider nodes along a given path in the tree. Then, as we go along this path, we keep track of: •  : Best choice so far for MAX •  : Best choice so far for MIN SE 420

  40. More on the - algorithm: start from Minimax Note: These are both Local variables. At the Start of the algorithm, We initialize them to  = - and  = + SE 420

  41. More on the - algorithm In Min-Value: MAX  = -  = + Max-Value loops over these MIN … Min-Value loops over these MAX 5 10 6 2 8 7  = -  = 5  = -  = 5  = -  = 5 SE 420

  42. More on the - algorithm In Max-Value: MAX  = -  = +  = 5  = + Max-Value loops over these MIN … MAX 5 10 6 2 8 7  = -  = 5  = -  = 5  = -  = 5 SE 420

  43. More on the - algorithm In Min-Value: MAX  = -  = +  = 5  = + MIN … Min-Value loops over these MAX 5 10 6 2 8 7  = 5  = 2  = -  = 5  = -  = 5  = -  = 5 End loop and return 5 SE 420

  44. More on the - algorithm In Max-Value: MAX  = -  = +  = 5  = + Max-Value loops over these  = 5  = + MIN … MAX 5 10 6 2 8 7  = 5  = 2  = -  = 5  = -  = 5  = -  = 5 End loop and return 5 SE 420

  45. Example SE 420

  46. - algorithm: SE 420

  47. Solution NODE TYPE ALPHA BETA SCORE A Max -I +I B Min -I +I C Max -I +I D Min -I +I E Max 10 10 10 D Min -I 10 F Max 11 11 11 D Min -I 10 10 C Max 10 +I G Min 10 +I H Max 9 9 9 G Min 10 9 9 C Max 10 +I 10 B Min -I 10 J Max -I 10 K Min -I 10 L Max 14 14 14 K Min -I 10 10 … NODE TYPE ALPHA BETA SCORE … J Max 10 10 10 B Min -I 10 10 A Max 10 +I Q Min 10 +I R Max 10 +I S Min 10 +I T Max 5 5 5 S Min 10 5 5 R Max 10 +I V Min 10 +I W Max 4 4 4 V Min 10 4 4 R Max 10 +I 10 Q Min 10 10 10 A Max 10 10 10 SE 420

  48. State-of-the-art for deterministic games SE 420

  49. Nondeterministic games SE 420

  50. Algorithm for nondeterministic games SE 420

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