Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 11:05:13 12/31/99
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One must differentiate between selective extensions and selective pruning. Selective extensions preserve the assurance depth of an alpha-beta search, pruning OTOH reduces the assurance depth of an alpha-beta search thus making it a bit unsafe. Assurance depth is the depth a selective search is producing the same result as a mini-max and thus also an alpha-beta search. These are som of the more important(/crappy) definitions whe comparing search algorithms. Regards Dan Andersson
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