University of California, Irvine: Max Welling's "Introduction to AI"
Review these slides. Game playing provided numerous applications that motivated the development of AI techniques, such as search and problem-solving techniques. In addition, it served as a popular benchmark for demonstrating progress and improvements of AI research.
Click http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/teaching/ICS171spring07/Introspring07.ppt link to open resource.