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Back to Square One: Superhuman Performance in Chutes and Ladders Through Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search

Artificial Intelligence 2021-04-05 v1

Abstract

We present AlphaChute: a state-of-the-art algorithm that achieves superhuman performance in the ancient game of Chutes and Ladders. We prove that our algorithm converges to the Nash equilibrium in constant time, and therefore is -- to the best of our knowledge -- the first such formal solution to this game. Surprisingly, despite all this, our implementation of AlphaChute remains relatively straightforward due to domain-specific adaptations. We provide the source code for AlphaChute here in our Appendix.

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@article{arxiv.2104.00698,
  title  = {Back to Square One: Superhuman Performance in Chutes and Ladders Through Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search},
  author = {Dylan Ashley and Anssi Kanervisto and Brendan Bennett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00698},
  year   = {2021}
}