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EinStein Würfelt Nicht! is a game that has elements of strategy, tactics, and chance. Reasonable evaluation functions can be found for this game and, indeed, there are some strong mini-max based programs for EinStein Würfelt Nicht! We have constructed an MCTS program to play this game. We describe its basic structure and its strengths and weaknesses with the idea of comparing it to existing mini-max based programs and comparing the MCTS version to a pure MC version.
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Lorentz, R.J. (2012). An MCTS Program to Play EinStein Würfelt Nicht!. In: van den Herik, H.J., Plaat, A. (eds) Advances in Computer Games. ACG 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31866-5_5
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