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This paper presents an application of the game refinement theory to a class of multi-person incomplete-information games, especially in the domain of Mah Jong that is an old Chinese four-person incomplete-information game. We have developed a computer program to analyze some statistics on the number of the possible options and the game length. The results of the analysis show that the measure of the game-refinement for Mah Jong has an appropriate value as well as other refined games such as chess and Go.
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- game-refinement theory
- multi-person games with incomplete-information
- Mah Jong
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Iida, H., Takahara, K., Nagashima, J., Kajihara, Y., Hashimoto, T. (2004). An Application of Game-Refinement Theory to Mah Jong. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2004. ICEC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28643-1_41
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