TemplateRex

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by TemplateRex 4y ago
It's true that many move sequences can be collapsed to a single maneuver. However, the area control remark is inaccurate: controlling or occupying the 3 alleys is very important and requires careful positional play. Getting the right &
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
It depends on player attitudes. The maneuvering is simpler than in chess or even checkers, although you can have very intricate multi-piece pincers around the lakes. Most top players however tend to be quite aggressive, sacking majors or ev
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
But their NN already outputs a policy conditional on public and private info! Why not have a separate intermediate branch in the NN that is fed with the current estimate of private info (for both players) and outputs the policies (again for
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
You can view Stratego as the "Cartesian product" of a public information board game and an imperfection information "card" game. The board game has much simpler local tactics than e.g. chess or checkers, although whole b
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
What I don't understand is why they don't try to make inferences about the opponent's private state. I get that the full Bayesian update is intractable, but some sort of RNN or LSTM should be able to produce pretty accurate e
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
In actual live game play, none of the top players use such kids' ploys as touching bombs pretending to be moveable pieces. Actual game play wouldn't change if the one touch move rule from chess or checkers were to be introduced. T
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
The pace in online games is too fast (4s per move usually, with a 12m buffer) to use pen and paper aides. Short of having some sort of screen-scrabbing AI-tool that auto-labels pieces as they are revealed (doable by a decent programmer, but
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by TemplateRex 4y ago
The best available bot that is also mentioned in the paper, is Probe. Expert humans will score the same as DeepNash against Probe. The best humans have no trouble recalling every piece that moved, and the square it originated from. Top-leve