ALPHA-BETA pruning

A technique used by computer programmers to cut down the number of possible moves a computer has to evaluate before choosing the best move.

Despite the ugliness of his decline, Bobby Fischer deserves to be remembered for the great things he did for chess and for his immortal games. Garry Kasparov
2004
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him Magnus Carlsen
2012
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time. Bernard Shaw

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