Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 05:22:12 01/02/03
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On January 01, 2003 at 11:21:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 31, 2002 at 05:28:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On December 30, 2002 at 17:58:20, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On December 30, 2002 at 14:40:20, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>When saying PVS, many usually >>>>refer to NegaScout. >> >>Myself, I use "PVS" to mean PVS, and "Negascout" to mean Negascout. ;-) >> >> >>>It's also an SMP search algorithm, IIRC. >> >>No, PVS has nothing to do with SMP. > >PVS ==> principal variation splitting SMP algorithm. > >but also it is overloaded and Principal variation search which is >a better working form of alfabeta of course ;) > >So it is a yes to both. Oh, yeah. Well, whoever thought up that parallelization algorithm should have picked a name that didn't give the same abbreviation as PVS. ;-) Dave
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