MCGS: A Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver

This web site contains information on MCGS and some of the results computed with it. For technical information on MCGS, please refer to the project's markdown documentation in MCGS/docs.

• MCGS User Guide. T. Folkersen, November 2025.
• MCGS paper (University of Alberta): T. Folkersen, H. Du and M. Müller. MCGS: A Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver. Advances in Computer Games, 2025.
• Taylor Folkersen's talk at Advances in Computer Games, 2025: MCGS: A Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver (pdf slides, University of Alberta)
• MCGS Computational Results (this site)
• Brief high-level overview of Version 1, February 2025: A Search-based Approach for Solving Sum Games.
• The overall approach and future plans will be described in a forthcoming document "The Design of MCGS: A Minimax Search-based Solver for Combinatorial Games".