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I am programming an Nine-Mens-Morris game in WPF and it is almost finished. But my Alpha-Beta-AI is a little bit too easy. I want to implement a strategy for the AI. The AI should win as good as always. I don't want to increase the search tree depth more than 6 because it takes too long to calculate.

Sorry if my English isn't that good.

Here is the source code of the Alpha-Beta AI

What I have tried:

using Młynek.Model;
using Młynek.Utils;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Młynek.Players
{
    class AlfaBetaSpieler : ISpieler
    {
        private FieldState _color;
        private IEvaluateGameState _evaluator;
        private AIHelper _aiHelper;
        private Spiel _game;
        private Spielzug _pendingCapture;
        private long _nodesCount;
        private int _depth;


        public bool IsHuman => false;
        public string TypeName => "AlphaBeta";

        public AlfaBetaSpieler(FieldState color, int depth, GameStateEvaluator evaluator)
        {
            _color = color;
            _evaluator = evaluator;
            _depth = depth;
            _aiHelper = new AIHelper();
        }

        public async Task<Spielzug> AIMove(Spiel game)
        {
            _nodesCount = 0;
            Stopwatch timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            Spielzug nextMove = await Task.Run(() =>
            {
                _game = game.Duplicate();
                return AlfaBeta();
            });
            if (nextMove.Capture >= 0) _pendingCapture = new Spielzug(_color, nextMove.Capture);
            timer.Stop();
            nextMove.Time = timer.ElapsedMilliseconds;
            nextMove.NodesVisited = _nodesCount;
            return nextMove;
        }

        public Spielzug AICapture(Spiel game)
        {
            if (!_pendingCapture.IsValid()) throw new InvalidOperationException();

            Spielzug capture = _pendingCapture;
            _pendingCapture = new Spielzug();
            return capture;
        }

        public Spielzug AlfaBeta()
        {
            int depth = _game.GetRound() == 2 ? _depth : 3;
            Spielzug nextMove = AlfaBetaRecursion(depth, float.MinValue, float.MaxValue).Item2;
            _game = null;
            return nextMove;
        }

        public (float, Spielzug) AlfaBetaRecursion(int depth, float alfa, float beta)
        {
            _nodesCount++;

          
            if (depth == 0 || _game.GameEnded)
            {
                return (_evaluator.EvaluateGameState(_game, _color), new Spielzug(FieldState.Empty));
            }

            Spielzug[] possibleMoves = _aiHelper.GetAvaiableMoves(_game);

            //GIVE-UP PSEUDO MOVE
            if (possibleMoves.Length == 0)
            {
                Spielzug giveUp = new Spielzug(_game.NextPlayer);
                _game.MakeMove(giveUp);
                return ((AlfaBetaRecursion(depth - 1, alfa, beta).Item1, giveUp));
            }

            // MAXIMIZING PLAYER
            if (_game.NextPlayer == _color)
            {
                var max = (Item1: float.MinValue, new Spielzug(FieldState.Empty));

                for (int i = 0; i < possibleMoves.Length; i++)
                {
                    Spielzug move = possibleMoves[i];

                    _game.MakeMove(move);
                    if (move.CreatesMill) _game.Capture(new Spielzug(move.Player, move.Capture));

                    if (max.Item1 >= alfa) alfa = max.Item1;

                    var eval = ((AlfaBetaRecursion(depth - 1, alfa, beta).Item1, move));
                    _game.Undo();

                    if (eval.Item1 >= beta) return eval;

                    if (eval.Item1 >= max.Item1) max = eval;
                }
                return max;
            }
            // MINIMIZING PLAYER
            else
            {
                var min = (Item1: float.MaxValue, new Spielzug(FieldState.Empty));

                for (int i = 0; i < possibleMoves.Length; i++)
                {
                    Spielzug move = possibleMoves[i];

                    _game.MakeMove(move);
                    if (move.CreatesMill) _game.Capture(new Spielzug(move.Player, move.Capture));

                    if (min.Item1 <= beta) beta = min.Item1;

                    var eval = ((AlfaBetaRecursion(depth - 1, alfa, beta).Item1, move));
                    _game.Undo();

                    if (eval.Item1 <= alfa) return eval;

                    if (eval.Item1 <= min.Item1) min = eval;
                }
                return min;
            }
        }

        public void Move(Spiel game)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }

        public void Capture(Spiel game)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
    }
}


I am not so advanced but I have some knowledge of C#. So if you can help me, I would be really glad.
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