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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Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position), Game tree...

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...

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...

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...

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...

evaluating four ply ahead. The 1950s also included the largely forgotten tennis game created by Willy Higinbotham that anticipated the famous game Pong. The...

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...

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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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...

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...

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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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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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),...

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...

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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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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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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