Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 17:19:17 07/20/99
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On July 20, 1999 at 19:57:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 20, 1999 at 19:51:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >[snip] >>I nominate the nullmove, >>althoug of course alfabeta logically should qualify first, >>alfabetapruning isn't very hard to invent. Nullmove is though. >> >>First prize for that nomination would be: >> "best algorithmic improvement of the century" >> >>Nullmove has been nominated as #1 by me. >>Alfabeta as second. >>YBW as third. >What is YBW? "Young Brothers Wait", for multiprocessing. I think it means have one processor search the first move from a given node - if that doesn't get a cutoff, share out the rest. > >>endgametablebases as 4th. Andrew
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