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Subject: Re: MultiCut alpha-beta prunning

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:28:25 04/15/03

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On April 15, 2003 at 10:02:11, Grzegorz Sidorowicz wrote:

>Is any program using MultiCut alpha-beta prunning?
>(described by Yngvi Bjornsson and Tony Marsland)
>This idea is very interesting but in my opinion
>is not popular.
>Maybe it is not working with null moves ?!
>What do you think about this prunning technique?
>
>Grzegorz

I never heard about that idea but I guess that it is to prune moves when more
than one move can produce a cutoff at smaller depth.

I believe that there are programs that do it.
I believe that the idea can be productive if it is used in the right cases.

Uri



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