>The best strategy is to choose the play that MINImizes your opponents >MAXimum equity. The term "minimax" is used to describes this strategy. > >In backgammon, this is complicated by the use of dice. You don't know >what your opponents best move is, because you don't know what she will >roll on her next turn. Minimax strategy is still used, but adapted so >that you pick the move where your opponent has the lowest AVERAGE equity >for all combinations of dice on her next roll.
…which is sometimes called expectminimax or expectiminimax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectiminimax_tree). -- Petr Kadlec _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
