Notion in combinatorial game theory
Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways:
- State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position)
- Game tree size (total number of possible games)
- Decision complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest decision tree for initial position)
- Game-tree complexity (number of leaf nodes in the smallest full-width decision tree for initial position)
- Computational complexity (asymptotic difficulty of a game as it grows arbitrarily large)
These measures involve understanding the game positions, possible outcomes, and computational complexity of various game scenarios.