Rational Player

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Finite Extensive-form Games
... Following the presentation from Hart (1992), an n-player extensive-form game thus consists of the following A finite set of n (rational) players A rooted tree, called the game tree Each ... Each player's subset of nodes is referred to as the "nodes of the player" ... has an empty set of Chance nodes.) Each node of the Chance player has a probability distribution over its outgoing edges ...

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