Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 07:13:00 04/08/04
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On April 08, 2004 at 09:01:14, Andrew Wagner wrote: >[snip] >> >>Hi, >> >>What I was asking is: «Is this an NegaMax variation of AlphaBeta ?» >> >>sorry, i realize I was not really clear. >> >>Mathieu P. > > >Here's the way I understand it, based on Bruce's site. The min-max method was >developed first, and essentially had one function which minimized the score, and >another function that maximized the score. Negamax did essentially the same >thing, but a lot more efficiently. > >Then Alphabeta came along, and modified the Negamax function. It does more or >less the same thing, but a LOT more efficiently, by passing bounds around. I >guess you could call it a variation of Negamax....in the same way you would call >Kasparov just another chess player. > >I suggest you have a read through Bruce's site...his explanations are >entertaining and very clear. I learned a ton from them. Hope that helps! > >Andrew Hi Andrew, Thanks for your reply. You just confirm what I tought. I have already red the Bruce's site, but until english is not my native language I sometime need a confirmation of what I red. again, thank you. Mathieu P.
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