GGP Course Videos

Dive into a comprehensive video series on General Game Playing (GGP) from Stanford University. Explore the fundamentals of GGP, including game description, management, and playing techniques. Learn about the International GGP Competition and philosophical aspects of game theory. Delve into the Game Description Language, game simulation, and various player types. Master strategies for single-player and multiplayer games, including Eight Puzzle, Minimax, and Alpha Beta Pruning. Discover advanced topics such as heuristic search, Monte Carlo methods, and Propositional Networks (Propnets). Gain practical skills in game analysis, sequential planning, and implementing different search algorithms for effective game playing.

GGP Preface.
Lecture 1.1 Introduction.
Lecture 1.2 International GGP Competition.
Lecture 1.3 Game Description.
Lecture 1.4 Game Management.
Lecture 1.5 Game Playing.
Lecture 1.6 Philosophical Remarks.
Lecture 2.1 Game Description.
Lecture 2.2 Game Description Language.
Lecture 2.3 Game Description Example.
Lecture 2.4 Game Simulation Example.
Lecture 2.5 Miscellaneous.
Lecture 3.1 Game Management.
Lecture 4.1 Game Playing.
Lecture 4.2 Creating a Legal Player.
Lecture 4.3 Creating a Random Player.
Lecture 5.1 Small Single Player Games.
Lecture 5.2 Eight Puzzle.
Lecture 5.3 Compulsive Deliberation.
Lecture 5.4 Sequential Planning.
Lecture 6.1 Small Multiplayer Games.
Lecture 6.2 Minimax.
Lecture 6.3 Alpha Beta Pruning.
Lecture 7.1 Heuristic Search pt 1.
Lecture 7.2 Heuristic Search pt 2.
Lecture 8.1 Monte Carlo Search.
Lecture 8.2 Monte Carlo Tree Search.
Lecture 9.1 Introduction to Propnets.
Lecture 9.2 Propnet definitions.
Lecture 9.3 Games as Propnets.
Lecture 9.4 Game Playing with Propnets.
Lecture 9.5 Game analysis with Propnets.