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Subject: Re: Precision about NegaMax (on B. Moreland's site)

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 04:48:14 04/08/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 22:12:39, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>On April 07, 2004 at 21:45:41, Mathieu Pagé wrote:
>
>>Hi, I want i confirmation that the algorith on this page of Bruce Moreland:
>>
>>http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/hashing.htm (In the middle of the page)
>>
>>it is named : AlphaBeta but I think it is NegaMaxWithAlphaBeta.
>>
>>Am I right ?
>>
>>Mathieu P.
>
>What's in a name? AlphaBeta with any other name would smell as sweet...
>Seriously, if you're passing the search function Alpha and Beta, I would
>consider it an alphabeta search function. Also, that function is an exact copy
>of his AlphaBeta() function from
>http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/alphabeta.htm ...with the hashing stuff
>just overlaid on top.

Hi,

What I was asking is: «Is this an NegaMax variation of AlphaBeta ?»

sorry, i realize I was not really clear.

Mathieu P.



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