Research Article

Turn-Based War Chess Model and Its Search Algorithm per Turn

Table 1

Branching factors comparison between TBW game and other board games.

Branching factorComment

Chess [15]≈30Maximum branching factor is 40.
Go [16]≈100
Amazons [17]≈1500There are 2176 branches in the first turn.
TBW710 million~317 trillionSuppose that the movement point is 5, the movement cost is 1, and the amount of units is 5 for each side.