Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:23:15 01/03/03
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On January 02, 2003 at 21:26:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 02, 2003 at 08:22:12, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>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 > > >Talk to Tony Marsland and Monty Newborn and Murray Campbell. It came out of >them. :) In fact, I think I _did_ tell Tony that once -- I don't recall exactly, but it was something to the effect as to I could understand that two different researchers could end up using the same initials to mean different things, but he was involved with the development of both, so he had no excuse, how could he let that happen? I can't remember what his reply was, but it was also funny. Dave
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