Game Demonstration
The purpose of this demonstration is to help you develop intuition for how minimax and alpha-beta search methods perform. The particular problem solved is that of finding the best move in a game.
The Search type menu item on the menu bar
enables you to see either the minimax method working alone or together
with the alpha-beta method. The Data type item allows you
to pick from various arrangements of static game-board values, as
displayed in the green boxes. The Shape item allows to
pick from various sample tree shapes, varying in width and depth. The Speed
item enables you to alter how fast the search movie plays.
The Search button initiates search. The New
tree button generates random static game-board values. The Stop
button stops processing.
Trouble
If the demonstration does not appear, you are probably using a web browser that does not support the version of Java in which demonstration was written, so you will need a so-called plug in. If your browser does not volunteer to load the plug in for you, you may need to load the plug in from a suitable web site. At the time of this writing, the suitable web site was Sun plug-in website.