IThinker Interface Reference

The actual AI code of specific thinkers should be placed in classes which implement this interface. More...

Inheritance diagram for IThinker:

Collaboration diagram for IThinker:

Public Member Functions
FutureMove	Think (Board board, CancellationToken ct)
	Perform a move. More...

Events
Action< string >	ThinkingInfo
	Event raised when thinkers produce information while thinking. More...

Detailed Description

The actual AI code of specific thinkers should be placed in classes which implement this interface.

Member Function Documentation

Think()

FutureMove Think	(	Board	board,
		CancellationToken	ct
	)

Perform a move.

Parameters

board	The game board.
ct	A cancellation token.

Returns

The move to be performed.

The main thread may ask the thinker to stop thinking. As such, this method should frequently test if a cancellation request was made to the cancellation token (ct ). If so, it should return immediately with no move performed, as exemplified in the following code:

if (ct.IsCancellationRequested) return FutureMove.NoMove;

Implemented in HumanThinker, HumanThinker, SequentialAIThinker, RandomMemoryHoarderThinker, RandomAIThinker, MinimaxAIThinker, BadMoveAIThinker, and AbstractThinker.

Event Documentation

ThinkingInfo

Action<string> ThinkingInfo

Event raised when thinkers produce information while thinking.

• Listeners receive a string containing the thinking information.
• It is not mandatory that thinkers produce any information while thinking.

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The documentation for this interface was generated from the following file:

• IThinker.cs