Practical Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Bots, and Agent Solutions Using C#

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Arnaldo Pérez CastañoPractical Artificial Intelligencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3357-3_16

16. Game Theory: Adversarial Search & Othello Game

Arnaldo Pérez Castaño¹ 

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Havana, Cuba

 

The most relevant figure associated with game theory is, without any doubt, John von Neumann, the Hungarian-American mathematician—one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Although others preceded him in formulating concepts connected to game theory (notably Emile Borel), it was von Neumann who in 1928 published the paper that laid the foundation for the theory of two-person zero-sum games . His work culminated in an essential book on game theory written in collaboration with Oskar Morgenstern and titled Theory of Games and ...