The Alpha-Beta Heuristic

The Alpha-Beta heuristic is a method for pruning unneeded branches from the move tree of a game. The algorithm makes use of information gained about part of the tree to reject those branches which will not affect the principle variation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Edwards, D.J., Hart, T.P.
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6098