Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 13:47:24 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 14:34:49, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/chapter_4.html JAFM >This is the chapter where chess is discussed. >[there are seven chapters in the dissertation,to read >them just change the number,from 1 to 7] Jose One interesting quote (for me, any-ways) was this: "There are many variations on the procedure just described, most of which have to do with pruning the tree so that you don't have to consider as many moves. Taken together, they are often called minimax algorithms. The first known minimax procedure was described in a 1713 letter by James Waldegrave. He wrote about the card game "le Her" to Pierre-Remond de Montmort, who then wrote about it to the famous mathematician Nicolas Bernoulli, who popularized it. " I didn't realize the idea of 'minimax' dated back to the 1700's... regards - PilgrimDan
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