Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

permanent brain

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables: per-ma-nen-t brain
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In turn-based games, the feature of an artificial intelligence opponent that allows it to evaluate and plan its moves even during another player's turn.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This observation is in line with common human intuition that too strong or too weak opponents are not as valuable as the ones playing on approximately the same level. The weakest feature of KnightCap was playing in the opening phase. One possible remedy to this problem is the idea of “permanent brain” introduced in Crafty - the strongest publicly available freeware Chess program and a direct descendant of a former Computer Chess Champion - Cray Blitz."
"The [chess] program was set in normal playing mode, with non-deterministic, permanent brain styles. Technically it was given ample pause times, […]"

Usage

Inflected Forms

permanent brains (plural)

Questions

What does permanent brain mean?: In turn-based games, the feature of an artificial intelligence opponent that allows it to evaluate and plan its moves even during another player's turn.

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