Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:06:48 05/24/00
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On May 24, 2000 at 17:20:29, Mike S. wrote: >On May 24, 2000 at 15:36:55, blass uri wrote: > >>The program has no idea about the difference between the best move and the >>second move. > >Really not? And how does it choose which is the best one to expect? Maybe I >would have to be a programmer to understand this. I seem to have a too simple >idea of a search tree...(?) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl The algorithm is called alpha/beta. And it finds what it thinks is the best move, and proves all the other moves inferior without calculating _how_ inferior they are...
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