Domain-independent feature learning is a hard problem. This is reflected by lack of broad research in the area. The goal of General Game Playing (GGP) can be described as designing computer programs that can play a variety of games given only a logical game description. Any learning has to be domain-independent in the GGP framework. Learning algorithms have not been an essential part of all successful GGP programs. This thesis presents a feature learning approach, GIFL, for 2player, alternating

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... move games using state differences. The algorithm is simple, robust and improves the quality of play. GIFL is implemented in a GGP program, Maligne. The experiments show that GIFL outperforms standard UCT algorithm in nine out of fifteen games and loses performance only in one game.