6.034 | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

Artificial Intelligence

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Lecture 6: Search: Games, Minimax, and Alpha-Beta

Description: In this lecture, we consider strategies for adversarial games such as chess. We discuss the minimax algorithm, and how alpha-beta pruning improves its efficiency. We then examine progressive deepening, which ensures that some answer is always available.

Instructor: Patrick H. Winston

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