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Subject: Re: "ALL node" definition

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:48:52 02/21/03

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On February 21, 2003 at 13:26:34, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Could someone please define what "ALL node" is and axplain how do we process
>these type of nodes?
>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso

If you look at a perfectly ordered alpha/beta tree, after you search the first
branch at a node to establish alpha, you search the rest of the branches, and
at each successor you search only one node (the refutation move).  But at the
next ply below that you have to search _all_ moves.  This alternates down
through the tree.  At "all" nodes, move ordering is totally irrelevant.  At
successors to all nodes, you get "cut" nodes where you only need to search one
move, if you can search a good move first...





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