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.

If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
The duty of a World Champion is not only to play games but also to explain to the public why he is winning Garry Kasparov
NIC 1989
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov Vladimir Kramnik
2015
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere. David Bronstein

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