On 11/14/06, Dave Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just as a caveat, keep in mind that alpha-beta is only guaranteed
to not affect the result if the rest of your search is completely
deterministic.  While that's a good first order approximation to
the truth, it's rarely actually true in anything as complex as
a Go program.

To paraphrase Don Rumsfeld, you alpha-beta prune your tree based on
the evaluations you got, not the evaluations you wish you had. ;)

Lars Nilsson
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