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Subject: Re: An Idiot's Guide to Minimax, Alpha/Beta, etc...

Author: Mike Carter

Date: 06:08:50 02/04/03

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Dann - thanks for your reply.  I've seen most of these articles before and I'll
read them again.  What I was hoping to get was a one-paragraph explanation of
how to implement the alpha/beta concept... specifically, when/how often does the
evaluate routine get called?  I saw a program that, for 4 ply, was analyzing
8K-10K total nodes.  Logically this seems impossible to me (to be able to prune
the move tree that much).  I'll sift through the websites you sent, and
hopefully I'll stumble across something that turns on the light bulb for me.
Thanks again Dann!

Mike



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