Extensive-form game

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An extensive-form game is a specification of a game in game theory.

Description

Extensive-form games allow explicit representations of a number of important aspects, including:

  • The sequencing of players' possible moves
  • Their choices at every decision point
  • The (possibly imperfect) information each player has about the other player's moves when he makes a decision
  • His payoffs for all possible game outcomes.

Extensive-form games also allow representation of incomplete information in the form of chance events encoded as "moves by nature".

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