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Subject: Re: Who invented the Alpha-Beta-algorithm?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:47:07 04/09/01

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On April 09, 2001 at 12:39:53, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I doubt that anyone knows who was first, with certainty. For a historical
>overview read Knuth and Moore: 'An Analysis of Alpha-beta Pruning'.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson


I believe it was the group Newell, Shaw and Simon.  They followed up Claude
Shannon's minimax paper with a description of how to use alpha/beta to reduce
the size.



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