One of the questions from last week and one from this week use the game Alquerque. According to the game rules the value of a state (its goal value) is 10 points for the number of opponent pieces that have been jumped -- if I'm reading the rules right. The game is over when one side reaches 100 or after 30 steps.  So all that really matters is making jumps.

Yet my player doesn't seem to jump even though that seems like the obvious move. Do your players jump? Also, there is nothing in minimax that tells a player to avoid being jumped by another player -- unless one programs in a preference for keeping the other player's score down. That would mean that minimax should both maximize one's own score and minimize the opponent's score. Does anyone do that?