Auto-explanation system : player satisfaction in strategy-based board games

In computerised version of board games, player satisfaction can beaugmented by providing explanation of what the computer based AI analytical processes are. This helps the players to understand the reasoning behind the action taken by the computer AI opponent. This paper proposes a method that provides the mechanism for a game AI to communicate its evaluation processes using descriptive auto-explanation through symbolic reasoning. A case study ispresented in an implementation of a game AI opponent that is capable of describing its inferential processes in a tabletop war game.