permanent brain

English

Noun

permanent brain (countable and uncountable, plural permanent brains)

1. (video games) 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.
   • 2007, Wlodzislaw Duch, Jacek Mandziuk, Challenges for Computational Intelligence, page 417:

     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.

   • 2007, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research:

     The [chess] program was set in normal playing mode, with non-deterministic, permanent brain styles. Technically it was given ample pause times, […]