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Subject: Fail-low pruning

Author: Tommi Rimpiläinen

Date: 13:23:53 01/17/06


Hello!

I suppose all the major chess programs use Tord Romstads Fail-low pruning now a
days. Fruit uses it and it is likely that Rybka uses it also. It would be
interesting to know, what the idea is behind this method of pruning. How sound
is this idea theoretically?

Tommi



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