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Subject: Re: Minimax algorithm

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 23:01:54 10/27/98

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On October 27, 1998 at 19:23:44, syed wrote:

>Are there any programs that use the minimax algorithm? Also, is this method as
>efficient as alpha-beta?
>
>thanks,
>syed
Alpha-beta is basically an enhancement to minimax. It cuts parts of the
searchtree that don't influence the result of a minimax search and computes
exactly the same result as minimax.

See http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/programming.html for more details

Frank



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