therefore a ply in chess is a half-move. Thus, after 20 moves in a chess game, 40 plies have been completed—20 by white and 20 by black. In the game of Go,...
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Airport (Indiana), IATA airport code PLY Plies (rapper), American rapper Ply (game theory), a turn in game play PLY (postnominal), a postnominal for athletes...
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combinatorial game theory, which typically studies sequential games with perfect information, a game tree is a graph representing all possible game states within...
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Minimax (redirect from Maximin (decision theory))
point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for...
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element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory and/or computer assistance. A two-player game can be solved on several levels:...
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Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position), Game tree...
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each ply (player turn), its ability to calculate the best plays is sharply reduced when there are a large number of possible moves. Most computer game algorithms...
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Shannon number (category Combinatorial game theory)
moves at each ply (half-move), and a game length of 80 plies (or, equivalently, 40 moves). Chess portal Solving chess Go and mathematics Game complexity...
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Connect Four (redirect from Span (game))
6-by-7 game board. The game plays similarly to the original Connect Four, except players must now get five pieces in a row to win. This is still a 42-ply game...
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Maven (Scrabble) (section Game phases)
Carlo tree search because it evaluates game trees only 2-ply deep, rather than playing out to the end of the game, and does not reallocate rollouts to more...
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evaluating four ply ahead. The 1950s also included the largely forgotten tennis game created by Willy Higinbotham that anticipated the famous game Pong. The...
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TD-Gammon (section Advances in backgammon theory)
lookahead. TD-Gammon's limitation to two-ply lookahead put a ceiling on what it could achieve in this part of the game. TD-Gammon's strengths and weaknesses...
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Endgame tablebase (redirect from End game table base)
player has "won" the game. Every position solved by the tablebase will either have a distance (i.e. the number of moves or plies) from this specific point...
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Conspiracy theories in United States politics are beliefs that a major political situation is the result of secretive collusion by powerful people striving...
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hideouts and derelicts with valuable items exist in deep space. Merchant ships ply the trade lanes, carrying cargo from system to system and occasionally coming...
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Computer chess (redirect from Chess (video game))
the opening moves of a game to variable depth, depending on opening and variation, but usually to the first 10-12 moves (20-24 ply). Since the openings...
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Computer Othello (redirect from Computer Othello (Arcade Game))
possible legal moves using a game tree. In theory, they examine all positions / nodes, where each move by one player is called a "ply". This search continues...
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Go opening (redirect from Go opening theory)
initial stage of a game of Go. On the traditional 19×19 board the opening phase of the game usually lasts between 15 and 40 plies. [citation needed] There...
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Power (social and political) (redirect from Powercontrol theory)
powerful people. (See expressions of dominance.) Game theory, with its foundations in the Walrasian theory of rational choice, is increasingly used in various...
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each player taking a turn. In grand total, somewhat less than two thousand plies were played. Fischer insisted that a Staunton chess set from Jaques of London...
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Table tennis (section Starting a game)
the promotion of team and military sports, and partly because of a theory that the game had adverse health effects. In the 1950s, paddles that used a rubber...
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Anti-computer tactics (redirect from Anti-computer tactics (gaming))
only beyond the plies examined by the AI. For example, if the AI is examining 10 plies ahead, and a strategy will "pay off" in 12-20 plies (6-10 turns),...
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Stalemate (section Effect on endgame theory)
Stalemate Baltische Schachblätter, Volume 4, p. 307 The previous record (37 ply, i.e. 18.5 moves) was held by the German composer Eduard Schildberg, and...
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Tempo (chess) (category Chess theory)
Italian: tempo, lit. 'time') is a "turn" or single move (a half-move or ply made either by White or Black). When a player achieves a desired result in...
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Kondolojy, Amanda (September 28, 2012). "Thursday Final Ratings: 'Big Bang Theory', 'Grey's Anatomy', Adjusted Up; 'Parks & Rec', 'Up All Night', 'SNL: Weekend...
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books on opening theory. A game is said to be "in book" when both players are playing moves found in the opening references. A game is said to be "out...
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CBS Wraps 11th Season At No. 1 In Total Viewers, NBC Tops Demo; Big Bang Theory Most Watched Series". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on...
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standardised textile industry, including the production of: single-ply, double-ply, triple-ply, and braided string and cordage; knotted nets; wicker baskets;...
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Outline of chess (section Chess theory)
if legal, taking only 0.1 seconds on the game clock. Priyome – typical maneuver or technique in chess. Ply – half-turn, that is, one player's portion...
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