Towards Solving Imperfect Recall Games

Imperfect recall games represent dynamic interactions where players can forget previously known information, such as the exact history of played actions. Opposed to perfect recall games, where the players remember all information, imperfect recall games allow a concise representation of strategies. However, most of the existing algorithmic results are negative for imperfect recall games and many theoretical and computational results do not translate from perfect recall games. The goal of this paper is to (1) summarize the existing results regarding imperfect recall games and (2) extend these results to a restricted subclass of imperfect recall games termed A-loss recall games. Finally, (3) we emphasize the impact of these theoretical results on algorithms that compute (approximately) optimal strategies in extensive-form games and show that they cannot be easily extended to imperfect recall games.