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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