Body: <p>This is a simple version of NIM: Two players alternately remove one, two or three coins from a stack initially containing 5 coins. The player who picks up the last coin loses.</p>
  
  <p>What does alpha-beta pruning look like on the game tree for this game?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Welcome to AI.se! This is a place where we ask and answer questions about AI. Your post looks like a homework problem. Is there a *specific* part of it you're confused about that we can help you with? Right now, your post is too broad.
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Comments.Text: @PhilipRaeisghasem I prefer using the standard of the utility of a given question, regardless of it being homework or not.  Let me know if you think the recent edit has rendered it more suitable.
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Comments.Text: Oh, yes, the recent edit has none of the problems the original question had. The original format of "Find X. Find Y. Show Z" is what I was mostly objecting to as being too broad. It was also, technically, not a question.
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Title: Understanding alpha-beta pruning for simplified NIM
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ThreadText: # Understanding alpha-beta pruning for simplified NIM
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-19)
  
  This is a simple version of NIM: Two players alternately remove one, two or three coins from a stack initially containing 5 coins. The player who picks up the last coin loses.
  
  What does alpha-beta pruning look like on the game tree for this game?
  
  **Tags:** game-ai, minimax
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Welcome to AI.se! This is a place where we ask and answer questions about AI. Your post looks like a homework problem. Is there a *specific* part of it you're confused about that we can help you with? Right now, your post is too broad.  
  > **username_2**: @PhilipRaeisghasem I prefer using the standard of the utility of a given question, regardless of it being homework or not.  Let me know if you think the recent edit has rendered it more suitable.  
  > **username_1**: Oh, yes, the recent edit has none of the problems the original question had. The original format of "Find X. Find Y. Show Z" is what I was mostly objecting to as being too broad. It was also, technically, not a question.  
  
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