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Subject: Re: Fritz: fail high; fail low.

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 07:23:36 02/01/01

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On February 01, 2001 at 10:08:36, Freddie Savage wrote:

>Can someone be so kind as to tell me what the terms 'fail high' and 'fail low'
>mean when playing Fritz?

Here you will find an older posting from Bruce Moreland where he explained
Alpha/Beta search:

http://www.jakob.at/steffen/hossa_internal.html#alpha_beta

In this posting he also gave some explanations of the terms fail high and fail
low.

I think it was also Bruce who said "A fail high is when the programmer gets
excited." :-)

Best wishes,
Steffen.



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