Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 12:42:01 02/28/01
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Hi Leen, >Neither did I, but in Heinz's book, p. 25, I read the >following, which made me wonder about null windows: > >"...null-move pruning generates selective cutoffs at >nominal full-width nodes..." > >Could you (or anyone else, preferably Heinz himself?) >please tell me what he means by 'nominal full-width nodes'? The term "nominal full-width search" is defined and explained on page 25 of the book. It means exactly what Bob guessed in his post -- a search that would normally be considered full-width (upper part of the tree) but no longer is exactly so because of selective pruning. =Ernst=
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