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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