Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 10:22:57 01/03/06
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On January 03, 2006 at 12:28:09, Robert Allgeuer wrote: > >>It is possible that Sergei introduced the name "history pruning", but the >>technique itself is very old; certainly much older than SmarThink. I no >>longer remember where or when I heard about it for the first time, but it was >>definitely not in this millennium. > >It would be really interesting where this technique came from, given that it is >now in wide-spread use. Maybe a forum member knows... > Two papers were it was introduced (1989), probably found on Dann corbits FTP. - J. Schaeffer, ‘‘Distributed Game-Tree Search,’’ J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing 6(2), 90-114 (1989). - J. Schaeffer, ‘‘The History Heuristic and Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice,’’ IEEE Trans. on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. 11(11), 1203-1212 (1989). regards Andy
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