/// <summary>
/// This method runs the ABS algorithm parallel, in the following way:
/// Only parallelize the calculation of the score of the depth=1 nodes, then take the max of those.
/// To do the calculation of the depth=1 node correctly, we need to pass on the Invert=true property and set MaxMoves one lower.
/// Also, we need to sort on evaluation score as usual.
/// Finally, in order for the pruning to work well, we have to pass on the updated Min (alpha) as much as possible.
/// Here, we have a trade-off: on the one hand we want to pass on the updated Min value immediately to the next node, but then we can't parallelize anything.
/// On the other hand, if we parallelize with 8 cores and start calculating 8 nodes immediately with Min = -inf, then those calculations might all be slow, and the parallelizing overhead results in time lost instead of time won.
/// After some trial, parallelizing 4 seems to have the best results.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="originalGame"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private Turn GetTurnParallel(Game originalGame)
{
try {
GameClientStatsCollector?.StartGetTurn(originalGame);
List <Tuple <Turn, Game, double> > games = new List <Tuple <Turn, Game, double> >();
foreach (Turn turn in originalGame.GetValidTurns())
{
TurnResult turnResult = null;
try {
turnResult = originalGame.GameState.PlayTurn(turn);
var game = originalGame.Clone();
double score = Evaluator.Evaluate(game, 1 - game.GameState.InTurnPlayerIndex);
// @@@ if the turn is directly winning, we are still going to try to explore the subtree and that leads to problems.
games.Add(Tuple.Create(turn, game, score));
} finally {
// roll back
originalGame.GameState.UndoTurn(turn, turnResult);
}
}
ConcurrentBag <Tuple <Turn, double> > bag = new ConcurrentBag <Tuple <Turn, double> >();
object dummyLock = new object();
double min = AlphaBetaSearch.GameResultLosing;
var orderedGames = games.OrderByDescending(t => t.Item3).ToList();
Parallel.ForEach(orderedGames,
new ParallelOptions()
{
MaxDegreeOfParallelism = Math.Min(4, Environment.ProcessorCount)
},
tup => {
Turn turn = tup.Item1;
var game = tup.Item2;
AlphaBetaSearch abs = new AlphaBetaSearch(game, MaxMoves - 1, Evaluator, false, DoPrune, CollectStats, DoLog, invert: true, startingMin: min);
var gameResults = abs.GetGameResult();
var gameResult = gameResults.Item1;
lock (dummyLock) {
min = Math.Max(min, gameResult);
}
bag.Add(Tuple.Create(turn, gameResult));
});
var best = bag.OrderByDescending(tup => tup.Item2).First();
GameResult = best.Item2;
return(best.Item1);
} finally {
GameClientStatsCollector?.EndGetTurn();
}
}
private Turn GetTurnNormal(Game originalGame)
{
try {
GameClientStatsCollector?.StartGetTurn(originalGame);
int maxMoves = GetMaxMoves(originalGame); // MaxMoves
AlphaBetaSearch abs = new AlphaBetaSearch(originalGame, maxMoves, Evaluator, false, DoPrune, CollectStats, DoLog);
var gameResults = abs.GetGameResult();
if (gameResults.Item1 == AlphaBetaSearch.GameResultWinning)
{
Turn winningTurn = originalGame.GetDirectlyWinningTurn();
if (winningTurn != null)
{
return(winningTurn);
}
}
GameResult = gameResults.Item1;
EvaluationScore = abs.EvaluationScore;
NodeInfos = abs.NodeInfos;
return(gameResults.Item2.OrderByDescending(kvp => kvp.Value).First().Key);
} finally {
GameClientStatsCollector?.EndGetTurn();
}
}