CMPUT 657 - Algorithms for Combinatorial Games

• Course overview
• Time and location:
  • Course start and end date: Sep 2, 2025 - Dec 8, 2025
  • Time: Tuesday and Thursday 14:00 - 15:20
  • Location: VVC 1-662, Van Vliet Complex, downstairs - 1st floor, map
  • No class:
    • Sep 30 - Truth and Reconciliation Day
    • Nov 11 and Nov 13 - Reading Week
  • Last class: Thu, Dec 4
• Instructor: Martin Müller, office: 6-190 University Commons, email: mmueller
• Opens Sep 2: Canvas course site for quizzes, assignment submissions, announcements, discussion forum.
• Syllabus, built with Simple Syllabus. The template does not quite work for my purposes, but I did what I could...
• Assessments
• CMPUT 657 Week by Week
• More to follow: slides, resources/code, ...
• resources page

Week by Week

Week 1, Sep 2 – 5

• Sep 2: first class, introduction and course overview. Types of games and search. Example - game of Clobber. Sample codes and software.
• Sep 2 reading: Course overview, syllabus, Canvas course site
• Sep 4: Continue introduction. Games of Go and NoGo. Minimax search.
• Sep 4 reading: D. Knuth and R. Moore. An analysis of alpha-beta pruning. Artificial Intelligence 6(4), pages 293 - 326, 1975.

Last update by Martin Müller Aug 29, 2025