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Subject: Backward Pruning

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 06:57:41 10/23/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 05:30:05, Alessandro Damiani wrote:

[snip]
>
>Forward pruning is the opposite of backward pruning. With this in mind I would
>say null-move is forward pruning: it prunes before the subtree is searched.
>
>Forward pruning should be the name of a general technique and not only for
>excluding moves from search (like Qsearch).
>
>I would make two classes: forward pruning, backward pruning.
>
>Alessandro

In the tens of thousands of posts I have read here, I do not think I have ever
read the term backward pruning (yet another reason to have a separate technical
section).

Could you please explain what backward pruning is?

Thanks,

KarinsDad :)



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