Understanding the Minimax Algorithm

Playing games with AI

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Let’s say you play a game with a friend. And the metric of “how good you perform in that game” is measured by a numeric score which increases when you get closer to “winning the game” than your friend and decreases when your friend gets closer to “winning the game” than you. In this setting, you can think of yourself as trying to maximize the score and your friend as…