A technique used by computer programmers to cut down the number of possible moves a computer has to evaluate before choosing the best move.
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Quotes of the Day
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke.
Silvio Danailov 2013
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz