Abstract
It is always difficult for beginners to learn rules of a new game. A game is classified depending on various aspects, for instance, one with perfect or imperfect information. Because of developing the computer program for a game with perfect information, it is significant to focus on a game with imperfect information as the main target for computational research. Especially, Mahjong is one of popular games with imperfect information. From the aspect of the game informatics, we focus on providing a support system for human players. In order to support mahjong beginners, we constructed a system that displays hints and estimates the players’ purpose of discard based on the support vector machine.
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To make several sets for winning.
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In this research, we ignore 8 pieces of the flower and season tiles from the 144 pieces.
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Required turn for a player to be out.
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Player declares his/her hand when requiring one more tile for completion as information for opponent players.
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Player needs one more tile for completion.
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This research is partially supported by DAIKO FOUNDATION and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K17809.
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Ueno, M., Hayakawa, D., Isahara, H. (2019). Estimating the Purpose of Discard in Mahjong to Support Learning for Beginners. In: De La Prieta, F., Omatu, S., Fernández-Caballero, A. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 15th International Conference. DCAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 800. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94649-8_19
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