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

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 18:43:36 04/09/01

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Dan Andersson wrote:

> They are certainly a good candidate but their description was
> not of full a-b pruning, or at least their description was
> too vague to discriminate it from a less pruning algorithm.
> For details go to the aforementioned Knuth and Moore paper.

Which can be found, by the way, in Knuth's excellent
"Selected papers on analysis of algorithms", published
by CSLI Publications.

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Gareth McCaughan



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