Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 06:33:22 09/01/98
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On August 31, 1998 at 23:07:19, Dave Gomboc wrote: <snip> > >Yngvi Bjornsson at the University of Alberta has already investigated >tree-pruning work along these lines. I don't recall if he's published anything >yet but I know I saw a draft of something first hand earlier this year. > >Dave Gomboc When you put it that way, suddenly it becomes clear that maybe there's not so much difference between chess engines and chess database software afterall. In other words, chess engines can be thought of as "tree generators" and "tree pruners." This is similar to the way the creation of opening books is a "tree generation" activity. And,. . . opening book maintenance is a process involving "tree pruning" among other things. Creation and processing of very large databases of chess games is also not much different from working with opening books, but on a larger scale. By looking at things this way, it seems that the whole subject of chess software all ties to together into similar activities.
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