permanent brain

plural permanent brains

1. countableuncountablevideo gamesIn 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.

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

   2007, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

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   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, Wlodzislaw Duch, Jacek Mandziuk, Challenges for Computational Intelligence, page 417